Nurse in Northern Ireland with clinical hours deficiencies for NCLEX

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Hi,

I was wondering if anyone had any advice for me. I am a staff nurse in Northern Ireland and I trained in QUB school of Nursing. I have applied for licensure through the Michigan Board of Nursing to sit the NCLEX exam. My CGFNS CES report has just been issued and states I have clinical hours deficiencies in Maternal, Children's and Mental Health Nursing, as my branch programme was in Adult Nursing. I have contacted both Michigan BON and CGFNS to see how I can make these hours up and all I have been told is that I need to get a university course to get both theory and practice hours at the same time, even though I already have the theory hours in these areas. I have no idea how to go about this, even if its possible! If anyone has any advice or information at all, I would be so grateful!

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Am i rifht in thinking that you did no clinical whatsoever in mental health, maternity and children, did you not do a common foundation year? If that is the case i would look into unis that do the Common foundation year programmes

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Sorry right in thinking

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Hi, thanks for replying! I did a common foundation programme in year one, where we had 1 additional placement, and mine was in learning disability, so I have no clinical practice in the other 3 areas!

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I would approach your uni and ask them if you can sit in on classes again and do 3 placements in the areas you need, its worth s try! If not try and find a CFP programme , my CFP covered all the areas in clinical and theory , but my year was the last year to do CFP , that was in 2010, but universities still do it ,

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Thanks I'll try that on monday, fingers crossed!!

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

They may require that clinicals and theory be done together to avoid the concurrency issue.

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There is only 13 states that have concurrency , i don't think Michigan is one of them but check :)

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Thank you! Do you know how I would check that out? I called Michigan and they said they weren't sure if I had to do the theory and clinicals together, that it was CGFNS' decision, so I checked with them and they said it always has to be together! (is this the concurrency issue?).

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Michigan does not have concurrency issues as far as i know :)

Its these 13 states (Alabama, Arizona California, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Vermont, Virginia, Washington)

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.
Thank you! Do you know how I would check that out? I called Michigan and they said they weren't sure if I had to do the theory and clinicals together, that it was CGFNS' decision, so I checked with them and they said it always has to be together! (is this the concurrency issue?).

yes that is the concurrency issue.

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yes that is the concurrency issue.

Really? Im not sure if it is in Michigan as its one of the easier states to get in too! When you call cgfns , majority of the time you are speaking to a call centre representative , whom are often abrupt and not an officer , i would email cgfns and ask to get clear clarification from an officer if mighigan has concurrency issues

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