I'm a US sitizen and I live in GA.
I recently passed the NCLEX test and I have to get this week my RN license for New York State. I graduated from Ufa Medical College, Russia, which is 3 year nursing program.
16 years' experience as an Emergency/Anesthetist Registered Nurse in Russia (1990-1996)
(All Russian Medical schools, colleges and Universities, are free and governmental (nonprofit and has the same medical program proved by Moscow all over Russia)).
Education approved and validated by the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) and has been evaluated as similar to an Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) in US. My Russian education doesn't have problems for New York State Nursing Board.
I know that TO BE INDORSED to the GA Board I need to show 500 hours or 3 months of work from New York State ,and I thought it is ONLY MY OBSTACLE( I DO NOT HAVE ANY NURSING EXPIRIENCE IN US and secondly, I should travel from Atlanta to NC and be far away from my family).Yes , it will be challenging for me to get a job , but I have hope.I woul like to hear from someone any suggestions about how to get any job in NC in any RN position.
By searching this site and how to get GA RN license I read these very bad news from all of you. Please somebody, who can understand this new GA law, can explain me paragraph (E).I think that none of those (A, B, C, D) could be related to the nurses who was educated in another countries.
Four-year Institution is Bachelors in Nursing in USA as I know. So they want that a nurse, who is not related to A, B, C, D paragraphs has to be graduated from four year nursing program? And then the GA Nursing Board will check her educational curriculum, and if it meets "their" criteria the Board will give the license? I just can't understand: will they give license to the nurse from another country if she has Bachelors in Nursing? Sounds like total discrimination. So my education is a 3 year program, in US Associate degree takes 2 years. Why would they doubled our education (out of being"regional accrediting")
The next question is if I get US education now in Bachelors, which is total 4 years, will they accept then my total Russian-American education (3 years in Russia + 2 years in USA Bachelors)? If I need do that I will. Thank you for any help.
It is a copy from the new GA law:
In order to be approved by the board, a
nursing education program must be one that is offered by:
(A) A unit of the University System of Georgia accredited by the Commission on
Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools;
(B) An institution of the Technical College System of Georgia accredited by the
Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
© A nonprofit postsecondary institution of higher education that is accredited by a
regional accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education;
or
(D) A proprietary institution of higher education that is accredited by a regional
accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education; or
(E) A nonprofit postsecondary institution of higher education that is a four-year
institution that is not accredited in accordance with subparagraph © of this paragraph,
but whose curriculum has been determined by the board to meet criteria similar to and
not less stringent than criteria established by the board for other approved nursing
education programs."
Larisaell
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I spoke yesterday with the GA Board.
They will not give me a license because my education is not a 4 year program, not because it is from Russia. They will change the law, but it will be in 2012 or never.
They will not accept my education for licensing in GA with this law (2009) even I will have MSN from University of Phoenix. That was my hope. They need only basic nursing education.
As soon as I get a job in places as Federal facilities ,Veteran Hospitals , or in Forest service in GA (that is only my choice with RN license in NY state) I will start BSN or MSN.
Thank you for the Kennesaw link.
Have a nice day,
Larisa.