Needs advice

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Hello. I'm a new member here in allnurses. I need some advices and tips on what should I do. I'm a new RN who passed last June 2007 NLE. After obtaining my license, I decided to apply for NY Licensure and CVS from CGFNS to be able to take NCLEX. I've submitted all of the requirements needed and until now I'm waiting for responses from the NY BON for my eligibility and ATT. Here comes my dilemma, what's the best thing I should do next? Should I review while waiting for my ATT (which I don't know when) or should I just apply on hospitals for training & employment?

Thank you so much in advance.

[suzanne4, RN]

Depends specifically when you sent in the application to them for the CVS, that needs to be completed before NY will even look at your application. Average wait time is about 8 months, so you can calculate based on that.

I would recommend that you consider looking into other countries to get experience in the role of the RN. It is going to be quite hard to get anything in your country, and any of the training programs that are available there do not count as work experience in the scheme of things.

Best of luck to you.

[suzanne4, RN]

Please be very aware that we have not seen any hospitals do any petitioning from there for several years, especially now even more so with the retrogression in place. It is expected to be about a five year wait for a chance at a visa and that is from when the petitioning process is started. You cannot start it until you have passed the NCLEX exam as well as find an employer to start it.

Since there is no idea as to when things will open up, most employers are not going to with to wait to see when someone will be able to start work.

One thing if you have years and years of experience as an RN, something else as a new grad.

Just wanted you to be aware of this.