just married a foreign nurse who can help?

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well to make a long story short i married me sweetie on June 5TH

She is a nurse in the philippines & after she gets her CR-1 visa will be moving to New Hampshire which is where I live.

I am 39 & she is 27. we met online about a year & a half ago.

She has been working as what we would call an LPN for the last 5 years.

she did attend a 4 year nursing school there but didn't have the money( like many ladies over there) to take the test so that she could be an RN. I am sending her to a review class that will last 2.5 months & then after about a 30 day wait she will be able to take the nursing boards.

I am not a nurse & know little of nothing about what it will take for her to be able to work as an RN here in New Hampshire.

i did check out the new hampshire nursing license site but i didn't really understand all of the terms that they were using so at this point i am not so sure where to turn.

General Information About Licensing - New Hampshire Board of Nursing

if anyone here has some insite as to what it's going to take please let me know

thanks

piglett

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well to make a long story short i married me sweetie on June 5TH

She is a nurse in the philippines & after she gets her CR-1 visa will be moving to New Hampshire which is where I live.

I am 39 & she is 27. we met online about a year & a half ago.

She has been working as what we would call an LPN for the last 5 years.

she did attend a 4 year nursing school there but didn't have the money( like many ladies over there) to take the test so that she could be an RN. I am sending her to a review class that will last 2.5 months & then after about a 30 day wait she will be able to take the nursing boards.

I am not a nurse & know little of nothing about what it will take for her to be able to work as an RN here in New Hampshire.

i did check out the new hampshire nursing license site but i didn't really understand all of the terms that they were using so at this point i am not so sure where to turn.

General Information About Licensing - New Hampshire Board of Nursing

if anyone here has some insite as to what it's going to take please let me know

thanks

piglett

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LOL:redbeathe

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Specializes in CVICU, ED.

Have you tried to contact the BON directly? I live on the west coast and there are many, many foreign nurses here. The BON should be able to direct you to the info you need. Good luck.

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I guess that mite be a good idea, i am sure that there are foreign nurses working in my state so i can't be the 1st one with these questions, can I ???

thanks

piglett

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Specializes in peds.

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Specializes in OB, Peds, Med Surg and Geriatric Nsg.

Knowing that your wife is from the Philippines, I don't understand how she got an LPN degree when in fact, LPN's doesn't exist nor approved in the Philippine curriculum. It's either she is a midwife or a nurse's aide. If she attended 4 years of nursing school, she is considered to only have a BSN degree in which by not passing the local Philippine Nursing Licensure Exam would make her employed as a nurse. If she plans to pursue working as an RN here in the US, she needs to fill out the necessary paperwork that Prayerworks provided above. Her being a foreign nurse, she would be able to apply for the NH BON once she arrives in the USA and have her SSN as this necessary upon filing the application form.

She doesn't have to be an RN in the Philippines if she plans to be an RN here in the US. As for the review, my advice is to keep that money and spend it on a good review center here in the US rather than wasting her money for Philippine Nursing Review Centers who sees every nursing student as a pot of gold. Not a lot of review centers are reliable enough when it comes to teaching strategies on a US-based licensure exam.

Just my 2 cents..

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Moved to the international forum

The Philippines don't have LPN's but if she completed a 4 years nursing course as mentioned in the previous post she should meet state requirements

She will need to go through CGFNS and obtain CES as per their website

Graduates of foreign registered nurse programs must submit official evidence of successful completion of the Commission of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) examination or CGFNS full course by course credentials evaluation. Canadian educated nurses are not considered foreign for this application.

Forms, Applications, Publications - New Hampshire Board of Nursing under application by exam

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Specializes in Oncology/Haemetology/HIV.

First, are you a citizen, so that she has status that permits her to be employed in the USA?

Second, did she graduate from and holds a 4 year Bachelor's degree program for Nursing? Attending a "4 year program" and actually graduating from a Bachelor's of Nursing program are different things. Also, the Philippines does not recognize LPN status, or Associate degrees in Nursing, thus your lady could not have practiced as an LPN there. Has she practiced any of her RN level nursing schools since graduating?

There is great deal of paperwork involved in the state evaluating her education to make sure it is acceptable, and some states require testing one's English proficiency. Then she has to pass the NCLEX - something not easy to do, when one completed school so long ago. And then there is the hurdle of actually getting a job - there are thousands of new grads unable to find jobs, as well as nurses with current experience that cannot find employment. I do not know that they will accept your intendeds experience as valid nursing experience, as she was not working as an RN and there is no recognized LPN status where she indicates that she worked as one.

Please see the NH BON - as they are the best source. Virtually every state has slightly different requirements.

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The Philippine nursing boards are only held twice a year, the next exam after July is December. If I were you, I would have my wife quit her job immediately, and pay for the best exam prep possible until December. A intensive 6 month review is not unusual in the Philippines. Additionally, she may want to enroll in English classes, and driver's ed (if she hasn't already). I would contact the New Hampshire Nursing Boards, and also nursing boards from surrounding states. As some of the above posters mentioned, some states have different requirements. Another thing you would want to look at specificially is if the NH nursing board requires a local license to sit for the NCLEX. Some states are strict in that a foreign nurse must pass her country nursing exam before sitting for a license in that state. Good luck.

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Well thank you for everyone's input on this subject.

so i guess there is no LPN in the philippines & she has not ever taken the test to become an RN there so i guess she is a nurse but not a RN? i am not really sure about how all of that works over there.

She sill be leaving her 12 hour a day 6 day a week $182 a month job so that she can take a 2 1/2 month long review class.

then she can take the test to be an RN over there in December.

As far as english classes go the nursing schools over there all teach in english so there is no problem there.

drivers ed. if you had even been to manila you would know that that will never work there.

lets just say that in Manila they more or less don't follow ANY of the rules of the road.....none of them!!!!

I used to drive a tractor trailer coast to coast. I would haul freight for the military up to 12 feet wide.

& i don't want to even drive in Manila, so there is just no way my wife will be able to get her drivers license until she gets here.

I'll take her out on some of the back roads around here where she will be the only vehicle on the road & i am sure that in time she will do just fine. till then i will have to take her to & from work:uhoh3:

maybe she can land a job where she works three 12 hour shifts a week that way i wouldn't have to play taxi almost every day, sounds good to me if it works out like that.

thanks

piglett

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First, are you a citizen, so that she has status that permits her to be employed in the USA?

Yes i am an american, lived here all my life.

Second, did she graduate from and holds a 4 year Bachelor's degree program for Nursing? Attending a "4 year program" and actually graduating from a Bachelor's of Nursing program are different things. Also, the Philippines does not recognize LPN status, or Associate degrees in Nursing, thus your lady could not have practiced as an LPN there. Has she practiced any of her RN level nursing schools since graduating?

i know she did graduate but weather she holds a bachelor's degree or not .....i will have to ask that exact question.

There is great deal of paperwork involved in the state evaluating her education to make sure it is acceptable, and some states require testing one's English proficiency. Then she has to pass the NCLEX - something not easy to do, when one completed school so long ago.

she is going to start a review class on Aug 9TH that lasts 2.5 months, then she can take the nursing boards in December . she will still have about 6 months left to wait for her CR-1 visa so maybe study & take the NCLEX while she is still there??

And then there is the hurdle of actually getting a job - there are thousands of new grads unable to find jobs, as well as nurses with current experience that cannot find employment. I do not know that they will accept your intendeds experience as valid nursing experience, as she was not working as an RN and there is no recognized LPN status where she indicates that she worked as one.

well not exactly she is working an a nurse there but she has never taken the test to become an RN ( lack of money)

so in my book she is a LPN ...but they don't have any of those there so i guess she is a nurse ???

as far as employment goes around here for the last 20 years ( maybe more) around here they are always short on nurses.

Why ? many people retire up here from NY,NJ,CT,MA, ect. ect. these people get old & require nursing care.

so i have never known of 1 nurse around here that was out of work for any amount of time.

However i am sure the rest of the country is not like it is around here.

thanks

piglett

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Well after asking this is what she replied

" I have my bachelors degree in my 4 year course in nursing & i have also attended seminars related 2 nursing degree."

so she didn't just take a nursing course, i think that's good news.:yeah:

piglett

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