International BSN not recognized in California, to take ADN

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Hi everyone! I would like to post my current situation as I would like to hear different point of views especially from my colleagues. I am a foreign BSN grad, moved to CA with my husband, and like thousands of internationally educated nurses I was denied eligibility due to concurrency issues. It felt as if my life was put on hold. There are days that I am just so speechless, thinking of ways on how I could comply with my deficiencies. With that, I took the LVN route instead. Currently I am working at my dream institution that as people would say, is so hard to get in that you would need to have tons of experience before you could get in but in my 4th month of being an LVN I was given a chance to work for this institution.

As days passed by I still felt that something is missing in my professional life. Needless to say, deep inside me I still would want to pursue my RN license. I searched and searched for schools near me but to no avail. Had calls from a faraway school to retake my deficiencies but I cannot afford to resign at my current job and take a loan of almost 30,000 to be able to fulfill one of the two deficiencies I have (MS and OB). With that I made the toughest decision in my career, to retake the program.

With the community colleges having their own curriculum they were only able to give me credit on one gen ed subject that I have. Other than that I have to take them all over again. Makes me sad, I am already 32 years old and thinking that I would have to do all of these over again exhausts me. However, it is better than waiting for the Boards to miraculously change their decisions regarding IENs, in which by the time they do that, I might have finished the program already. I know God will not give me any challenge that I cannot fulfill, for I know He is with me.

Thank you for reading this! And thank you for letting me vent!

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If you haven't read this already, it might give you some insights to "why oh why...."

The poster wrote this back in 2012 and still holds true today, 4 years later, the situation that has placed the majority of PH grads and nurses into a tailspin. Click below:

https://allnurses.com/nurse-registration/who-is-to-682278.html

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Thank you steppybay. Yes I have read this before, which is why I decided to just repeat the program since I don't think there's any way the BRN will lift this restriction.

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Thank you steppybay. Yes I have read this before, which is why I decided to just repeat the program since I don't think there's any way the BRN will lift this restriction.

Yes, I don't think the CA BRN will ever lift this "restriction", because it's not even a restriction but rather it's the non-compliance of the concurrency rules which has already been in existence for a decades and probably older than most of us (unless you were born before 1987, lol).

It's not a restriction in that, if one meets the minimum criteria, one can get the ATT or the endorsement approved. We've seen those who have taken the deficiencies or met with the proper transcripts to get thru the CA BRN process.

Don't forget that the concurrency rules applies to ALL applicants, whether they are from CA, out of state or out of the country. The same rules are applied to all and everyone.

Good luck in your endeavors.

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If needed to repeat MS & OB because they are not concurrent. There are schools that will credit your subjects & just let u take ms & ob instead of repeating the whole program.

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Gozp do you know any schools in SoCal?

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If needed to repeat MS & OB because they are not concurrent. There are schools that will credit your subjects & just let u take ms & ob instead of repeating the whole program.

Do you know any schools in SoCal? Are you IEN as well?

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UPDATE: I got in at CSUSB for my Medsurg and OB for this summer! God is good!

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UPDATE: I got in at CSUSB for my Medsurg and OB for this summer! God is good!

I'm sorry for not responding back, hence, I was never active in the forums anymore. I'm happy that u are able to to retake the ms & ob only. :) best of luck

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