If US Citizen and want to work abroad, is ADN to MSN an option?

[josiebaker]

Hi, I posted this to another thread and haven't yet heard a response, and I was hoping someone could help me out.

I've been reading the threads on working internationally if you are a US citizen. I am currently trying to get into nursing school, but want to work abroad (Europe, Canada and Africa). I understand that you need three years of nursing school to work in Europe and Canada but I have two questions:

1. Is it possible to get your RN from a community college, then get into a direct entry three year RN to masters program afterwards and have this fulfull the 3 year requirement for most countries? I am assuming that if you have a masters that takes 3 years, that this would fulfill the requirement. In the long term, I am considering taking this path, as it will allow me to intially get my feet wet into nursing without getting immediately into a huge amount of debt, and allow me to really explore what specialty I want to eventually go into. I also live near a really great community college that has a top notch RN program and it would most definatley be the easiest and convenient path to take. Do you think this path makes sense considering I want to work abroad? Do you think a Masters program would trump the fact that you went to a community college for your RN? If not, then what would you suggest?

2. Also, I understand there are RN to BSN direct entry programs that allow you to take courses to fulfill the BSN requirement. Do you know if these can these fulfill the 3 year requirement? I'm assuming not, but I was just wondering what you thought.

Any help or direction to some useful links would be much appreciated. Thank you all for being here!