Further Application Requirements Information for California Board Of Nursing

[Jeske2012]

Hello Everyone,

I am new forum user trying to find out some questions regarding my application that was sent out 2 months ago to the board of nursing in California.

I am a U.S Citizen, and choose to study abroad in Thailand for 4 years and just graduated in Dec 2012. Two months ago, i have sent out all the require documents that the board of nursing needed and they wrote to me that they needed:

1: copy of your Thailand nursing license

( Thailand only has licence in Thai Language, thus it is the reason why i don't have a licence in the country that i studied in, but instead I can get a letter from the Dean. The letter will state the reasons why) WOULD THIS BE ENOUGH FOR Board of NURSING TO APPROVE?

2: copy of your clinical rotation records or clinical rotation logbook

My nursing faculty for the international nursing does not have clinical rotation logbook.

They only have the schedule of the ward unit, with the hours of practice, with the name of the professor and the date....can this be pass as clinical rotation record???

Our university was ranked No. 1 university in 2011 by QS Asian University Rankings and the faculty of nursing that we've been practice is under the hospital Siriraj. Which is rank 7 place in Asia and 48 place in world ranking.

My concerns are will the California Board of Nursing, take in consideration of the hospital that you did all your clinical practice in? Because I DO NOT HAVE and THEY DO NOT HAVE the Clinical Logbook. I am concern that after i send all the documents again that is asked of me, they will denied........... What are my chances?

[Jeske2012]

Sometime before the end of 2011-beginning of 2012. Not sure about the exact month but they had no problems at all with CA BON because their University curriculums is equivalent to CA standerds

[steppybay]

Sometime before the end of 2011-beginning of 2012. Not sure about the exact month but they had no problems at all with CA BON because their University curriculums is equivalent to CA standerds

Ahh, okay, that's why I was inquiring approximately when they applied into CA and that's right around the time when the CA BON was just starting to strictly enforce the concurrency rules..late 2011 and some may have been passed thru in early 2012, but after that, any applications submitted into CA were being denied and rejected as they are as of this point in time.

There have been very few PH students and nurses that have successfully been given the chance to get their ATT or obtained the RN license since then.

Hopefully, your two PH friends have already passed the NCLEX-RN and holding their license now as those re-applying for a 2nd or more chance, the CA BON has also been rejecting those re-applications, citing the same concurrency rules.

There are many of those that failed the NCLEX in CA and only to find themselves now scrambling to find other states to take the exam when they were denied. There are a few posters here who did get granted another chance, but who knows what happened there, but lucky for them!

I have heard the reason the majority were denied on the re-application process was that the CA BON is now maintaining a certain consistency in their approval or in these cases, the disapproval of applications that do not actually meet the set forth (some 25 years ago) concurrency rules.