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1. UK TRAINED NURSE - NOTHING BUT HURDLES

   StarUSA replied to ScottishNurse22's topic in Immigration Advice

   I have only heard success stories from Adult trained nurses as they tend to do a bit of everything anyway where paeds/mental seems really specialised. However, I could be totally wrong, but I've never...

2. UK Staff nurse to US RN - is it possible?

   StarUSA replied to ScottishNurse22's topic in Immigration Advice

   The only way to know is to send it off. Best of luck and let us know the

3. UK Nursing Student Wanting to Move to US

   StarUSA replied to StarUSA's topic in Immigration Advice

   It's really important that you look on the Florida website and email their board of nursing to get full clarity as things get a bit murky on threads. I emailed the Virginia board of nursing and they...

4. UK Staff nurse to US RN - is it possible?

   StarUSA replied to ScottishNurse22's topic in Immigration Advice

   How did you get the day with the community nurse? How do you go about asking for those kind of

5. UK Staff nurse to US RN - is it possible?

   StarUSA replied to ScottishNurse22's topic in Immigration Advice

   Yeah it's the hours you get on placement. As long as the areas somehow magically aligne (e.g, diabetic adult ward maybe can get a spoke to diabetic children's ward? Since they are related? IDK) I...

6. UK Staff nurse to US RN - is it possible?

   StarUSA replied to ScottishNurse22's topic in Immigration Advice

   From what I've seen, getting an A&E placement/GP practice is the gold standard for getting all your hours in one place. Currently in the process of getting spokes in different areas, the tricky...

7. UK Nursing Student Wanting to Move to US

   StarUSA replied to StarUSA's topic in Immigration Advice

   One year sounds doable. What did you do for this year and What's your plan of action going forwards now? Sorry if I'm asking too

8. UK Nursing Student Wanting to Move to US

   StarUSA replied to StarUSA's topic in Immigration Advice

   This is fantastic! Did you have to stay in the UK for two years like everywhere says you have to? I really don't want to work in the UK for two years - how was the process

9. UK Nursing Student Wanting to Move to US

   StarUSA replied to StarUSA's topic in Immigration Advice

   We have a lot of independent study hours - you think I could use them? also, with an A&E placement, surely we wouldn't encounter many children as children have their own department in A&E?...

10. UK Nursing Student Wanting to Move to US

    StarUSA replied to StarUSA's topic in Immigration Advice

    The board also requires theory hours and I'm not sure how we cover those. We have had a maternity e learning course to complete but most of our course is adult - I think some mental health has been...

11. UK Nursing Student Wanting to Move to US

    StarUSA replied to StarUSA's topic in Immigration Advice

    Would these fill the hours? To be transparent I am feeling quite down about this situation. Feels like I'm stuck and no matter what I do I'll never end up in the US after graduating

12. UK Nursing Student Wanting to Move to US

    StarUSA replied to StarUSA's topic in Immigration Advice

    Your university should actually encourage your spokes in different areas. I'm adult nursing and from my reading online, you're allowed to go into different areas but what you can physically do is...

13. UK Nursing Student Wanting to Move to US

    StarUSA replied to StarUSA's topic in Immigration Advice

    I'm having issues because my particular area is very full of students so I'm going to try my hardest to get spokes in the Summer but I don't know how successful I will be. I think the areas would be...

14. UK Nursing Student Wanting to Move to US

    StarUSA replied to StarUSA's topic in Immigration Advice

    I emailed the board of Virginia! A little update, I have emailed my university and I'm having a little roadblock on getting spokes - not that it's not allowed, but the spaces! I'm looking into...

15. UK Nursing Student Wanting to Move to US

    StarUSA replied to StarUSA's topic in Immigration Advice

    I emailed the board of nursing with the placement hours requirements and my board is surprisingly low hours. I will try and get spokes in those areas and get those hours