i need advice PLEASE HELP ME ...

roser13, ASN, RN · Feb 14, 2016

Have you done any research yourself? Did you Google how to enter the US and obtain licensure? You need to be pro-active on your own, without expecting others to do the work for you.

While doing your research, don't forget to look into the fact that your education is 8 years old. That will be a factor in what you can/cannot do in the US.

Editorial Team / Admin · Feb 14, 2016

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JustBeachyNurse, LPN · Feb 14, 2016

You likely will not qualify for a license in CA unless you return to school as you graduated too long ago and never worked as a nurse. Most states have similar restrictions on recency of graduation and practice. Your chances of passing the NCLEX as a recent graduates IEN are less than 24%. With an 8 year gap with never practicing, your chances of passing are statistically less than 3%. IENs are not trained to US standards but to the standards of the country educated in.

Consider returning to school. Even if you earned a nursing license, employers won't consider you with hundreds of fresh new grads to chose from. The unemployment rate for inexperienced/new grad nurses in CA is >50% in some areas of California.

While not impossible odds are not in your favor with nearly a decade since graduation.

steppybay · Feb 15, 2016

You mention going after the LVN route will probably be your best way as currently the requirements are not as tough as going after the RN license.

The RN process in CA requires that you provide the evaluator a copy of your recent and valid PH nursing license, however, you stated you're not a license holder. The BVNPT does not need to see such a license at this time, they're making so much money from the applicants that do not qualify under the RN processing and shift their applications as they have no other choice but to try for the LVN examination path.

The CA BRN will also require copies of your college transcripts (the BVNPT will also need them), so make sure you can still get signed copies of them or do you have copies of your own you can submit? If you don't have the copies, contact your school as soon as possible to see if they even have them as most PH schools may only keep the files for 3-5 years max, then destroy them afterwards.

Upon getting your LVN license, you can try to go the LVN-RN route, but understand it's not an automatic guarantee to get the RN license as one needs to still get enrolled into a program, the competition is very fierce, you must still pass the various English and Math pre-testing sections and pass with high scores (depending on the school's criteria).

Getting your RN license in another state then trying to endorse back into CA is a waste of time and money if you were not able to meet the CA requirements in the first place. If you must stay and work in CA only, then, you'll need to focus all your attention on making it happen.

It's not an easy road to take as there are many others (as in the several thousand's ) from the PH that have been denied the ATT and even those trying to endorse back in. You'll find in reading the many threads here in this forum of the plight and frustrations of many of the PH applicants who after nearly three years or more are still unable to get the RN license. The 3 years is the time limitation the CA BRN gives all applicants to complete the deficiencies and satisfy them with the needed transcripts.

meanmaryjean, DNP, RN · Feb 20, 2016

i'm curious how you want to 'continue' a career you apparently have never pursued in the first place?