International Nursing Graduate with PH License. Where should I apply, CA or NEVADA?

steppybay · Sep 16, 2013

The rumors are more than true, they are the current grim truth for thousands upon thousands of many of us kababayans and it's been the case since Nov. 2011.

However, you're a brand new grad, so can you say with a very good statement that ALL your clinical and theory courses were done "concurrently"? That is to say, none of them ever never were done out of sequence, I mean, all the courses were done in the same EXACT month or semester, not months later, not 1-2 years later? If so, then maybe your transcripts will be reflected as "concurrent" and will be made eligible for the ATT in CA and NV.

I know that the recent courses being done where cut "short" instead of 5-5-5, they are now 3-3-3. But I've heard that in some cases (many?) that only made it worse but now reducing the minimum required hours (units) as set forth by the same old CA BRN standards. So yes, in some cases, the courses are deemed concurrent, but now could be "lacking" sufficient hours.

Again, the only way to know this is that you have to take the chances of submitting all your requirements to either state's BRN and see what they say, along with the non-refundable application fees.

You should read the many threads in this tab of the struggles and hardship of the PH students and nurses. NV is also one of the recent enforcing concurrent regulated states. Ask your dean if they have recently had any success with all of their recent students applying into CA.

There's been a couple of PH posters who reported here back at the end of June, 2013, the NV BON stopped accepting all international applicants. I don't know if it's true or not, it's what they found out either by making phone calls or their friends/relatives told them so. So please check this out yourself if you want to give NV a try.

Assume you don't meet the concurrency rules, then figure out what state you plan to plant your roots in for a couple of decades, as it makes zero financial sense to go somewhere else then try to get the license endorsed into a state that you should have simply applied into the first place. Y

You'll read of others applying into the "easiest, fastest and cheapest" state only to find that they actually want to endorse back into their desired state (but wanted to avoid taking the English exams or having their courses evaluated) and end up wasting more time (when they should be applying for jobs) and wasting more money (for another state's application fees and spending the money in the first place to take the unavoidable English exams and maybe the cost of the transcripts evaluations).

So guess what? Those that took the "easiest, fastest and cheapest" route are finding the difficult reality of now it's become the "hardest, slowest and more expensive" way to get licensed. Pick a state you wish to watch your babies grow into adulthood is the best answer to the state you should apply into. Simple.

There's no "shortcut" and the back doors to other desired states have been closed or closing.

Good luck!