Puerto Rico school feedback?

Jen_Jen88 · Jan 12, 2012

Good luck yogi!

hihopes22 · Jan 12, 2012

Thanks for everything Yogi!!! You and Jen are a life savers!!

tmp25, BSN, RN · Jan 12, 2012

Thank you for your help Yogi!!!

tmp25, BSN, RN · Jan 18, 2012

Okay guys I am coming next week. I was a little scared, but excited. Now everyone is discouraging me telling me how unsafe Puerto Rico is. Telling me it is not a good idea to go. PLEASE HELP :-( Right about now I AM discouraged.

Hey!

Question, when you come back, can you tell me how everything went--if you don't mind? I'm planning a trip there in May after I graduate to finalize everything. I'm pretty sure I will be attending one of the schools in the fall (I'm visiting them both like Jen suggested) I would have just PM'd you, but I don't have the privileges yet to do so. Thank you in advance!

designer-mommy, BSN, RN · Jan 20, 2012

Blah...I'm getting frustrated now.

My hubby and I are finishing with our associates in February (yay!) and we're going to Arizona after that. I started looking at the application on the Arizona BON and WOW, it's going to be a long, expensive process to get licensed in that freaking state. It looks like nurses who were educated in PR after 2006 have to jump through a million hoops. Now we have to have our education verified by some company, which costs about $350. We also have to take a freaking English proficiency exam, which is $175. So, it's going to cost us an extra $1,050 just because they consider PR as international. Add that to the $300 for the AZ BON and the $200 for the NCLEX (times 2 since we're married) and WOW--super expensive. According to the AZ BON site, people who were educated in the US and it's "territories" don't have to go through that. Um...isn't PR a freaking territory?!?!?! LOL Oh well...what can ya do? We even have to go through that if we want to do our license through endorsement. Blah.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we can start working sooner? I have always heard professors say that many students choose to go through Wisconsin because it is cheap and there aren't many hoops to go through, but don't you have to live in a state to get your license there? As in have a physical home address there? Anyway, I would still have to do the AZ license through endorsement, so I'd have to go through all of that crap anyway. Wisconsin is a compact state, and so is AZ, so I wonder if I could work under a compact license? I think you can only do that for 30 days though. Ugh, my head is spinning.

hihopes22 · Jan 21, 2012

tmp25. I decided to stay. I started class on Tuesday. I will PM you my email address. PS I LOVE the school and my classmtes are pretty awesome and very nice! People here are great!

hihopes22 · Jan 21, 2012

Sorry you are going through all of that trouble. Wish I could help. I do remember a while back someone said something similar about FL but another forum member called FL board and was told something different. Maybe try speaking with someone else or a person in a higher position. Not sure what you've already done. Good Luck!

hihopes22 · Jan 21, 2012

tmp25 please don't mind one of my questions in pm. apparently I didn't read your post entirely. haha

tmp25, BSN, RN · Jan 21, 2012

tmp25 please don't mind one of my questions in pm. apparently I didn't read your post entirely. haha

Haha, thats okay!

RNLizzie · Jan 21, 2012

Hihopes22 , What school did u decide to attend? Umet or Interamericana ? Excuse me if u already post the answer in one of your comments. I just didn't see it in your comments. Im contemplating between the two and plan to take a trip next month to visit both campuses, but I'm leaning more towards Umet!

Cahoon BSN RN, BSN, RN · Jan 21, 2012

DM get your license from Wisconsin. They take the degree from La Inter. Quite a few people I know have already taken NCLEX and gotten their confirmation from the nursing board. Once you have your license from Wisconsin then just transfer your license to AZ. Easy peasy. Good Luck.

tmp25, BSN, RN · Jan 21, 2012

FutureNurseLiz, I know I'm not Hihopes22, but just wanted to say that we should keep in touch bc I'm planning on attending school in the fall as well (not sure which one though). I'm visiting the schools in May bc I'm still finishing up school. Anyway, just wanted to put that out there:)