Irish trained psychiatric nurse to usa

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Hi was just looking for some information. I am a general trained nurse and my husband has his RN BSC in psychiatric nursing (4 years degree). I am a us citizen and we were looking for information if he would be allowed to work in the US? What he would have to do to work in PA? Or any knowledge of Irish psychiatric nurses in America?

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There are no Psychiatric nurses in the US. You need to be generally trained and have completed theory and clinical hours in adult, peds, OB/gyn and mental health nursing.

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Specializes in Oncology, ID, Hepatology, Occy Health.
On 8/13/2021 at 5:23 PM, Jmhegarty said:

Hi was just looking for some information. I am a general trained nurse and my husband has his RN BSC in psychiatric nursing (4 years degree). I am a us citizen and we were looking for information if he would be allowed to work in the US? What he would have to do to work in PA? Or any knowledge of Irish psychiatric nurses in America?

Sadly I think he'll find his overseas prospects limited. This is the problem with British and Irish trained psychiatric and paediatric nurses or the old RMNs and RSCNs. Most countries have a single comprehensive registration and expect registered nurses to be essentially general trained nurses having done a placement on psychy and a placement on paeds. Nurses who are basically psychiatric nurses or paediatric nurses only with limited exposure to adult general nursing aren't generally considered viable for registration in most countries. 

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Some of the Canadian provinces will accept RMN but the process isn’t cheap and can be long

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