Vivy

Well, huge thank you for letting me know that. At least I know the door is still open on going back to Australia.

Hmmmm, it would make me feel so much better if that pill that's supposedly being developed to allow women to delay menopause would hurry up and make it onto the market! The timeline I'm looking at is age 31, I'll have my BSN, age 32 before I have enough work experience to spend a few years overseas, late 30s before I'm in a position to even think about having children! If my local college would let me do a summer semester of nursing courses as well, then at least I could speed that up by a year.

US coursework in general is much more difficult to use overseas, what I'm looking at is doing my course and then possibly returning to Australia where I have lived before or staying on in Europe. Plus life here doesn't exactly agree with me, I'm so liberal and atheist that it's a wonder I haven't been lynched. If it is difficult to do nursing coursework as an international student, as midwifery is my end career goal anyway, what's the likelihood of me being able to do that as an international student?

Well, ok, maybe I'm not technically old, but I am old for someone starting her RN from scratch!

I'm about to start my Associate's in Nursing in the US, and once I finish I want to use it to enter a Bachelor's course, more than likely in the UK, so I can finish and work abroad for a while. When I have Googled nursing courses, a lot of them have a message that say due to the laws this course is not open to international students unless they have been resident for 3 years, which I hope isn't true! One glimmer of hope for this is that I found a course through University of Bedfordshire that's designed for nurses who are qualified overseas that involves taking Level 3 classes followed by a semester-long overseas nurses programme, and I'm wondering are there any similar courses out there? And also, as I haven't been able to find a clear answer, would my ASN qualify me for entry to courses like this? Thanks.

I'm about to start my Associate's in Nursing in the US, and once I finish I want to use it to enter a Bachelor's course, more than likely in the UK, so I can finish and work abroad for a while. When I have Googled nursing courses, a lot of them have a message that say due to the laws this course is not open to international students unless they have been resident for 3 years, which I hope isn't true! One glimmer of hope for this is that I found a course through University of Bedfordshire that's designed for nurses who are qualified overseas that involves taking Level 3 classes followed by a semester-long overseas nurses programme, and I'm wondering are there any similar courses out there? And also, as I haven't been able to find a clear answer, would my ASN qualify me for entry to courses like this? Thanks.

I know that LPN generally doesn't transfer anywhere abroad, the only way I would do one is if I can rest assured that I would definately get into a midwife course overseas using it. I am in a bit of a hurry because I still have lots of travelling I want to do, and I am worried to death about my biological clock running out. What I am looking at doing possibly is finding a nursing school where I can take classes year round, which is not something I can at Macon State, plus I am looking at the possibility of relocating to New York to do nursing school, then going overseas from there. Well, I am in a hurry too because I know I am going to go crazy the longer I'm stuck in Georgia doing waitressing.

I'm currently in the process of choosing and enrolling in an RN course. I have 18 credit hours to transfer from when I was in college before, but then Macon State in Georgia, which was the school I was looking at enrolling in, said the earliest I can enroll is for Fall 2010, by that time I will be 28! This is thanks to deadlines and the fact that I need to do both of my anatomy classes before I can start. I turn 30 in February 2010, and my goal is still to be able to work overseas by my 30th birthday, I would like to think this is still possible. So, does anyone know of some other programs where I can finish them and meet my goals? Or basically which RN programs are the quickest to finish? Also, does anyone know if it is possible to take a partially finished RN degree and use it for advanced standing for a Bachelor's degree overseas?

I Googled the CPM you mentioned, but there aren't any courses in that close to me, I am in Georgia anyway and I have found that anything that deviates from traditional medicine hasn't really taken off in this area. I'd be more inclined to go for Nurse Midwifery anyway, as I am very ambitious and it seems like I could go a lot further with that one. On top of studying midwifery, my dream would be to one day go into independant practice with a fusion of traditional and alternative therapies, my dream birthing center would be complete with things like nutritional counselling and a prenatal yoga studio. But then one step at a time of course.

Thank you, and your response has definately given me a lot to think about! I thought it was the case where it's hard to do anything with a qualification less than BSN(I take it from your response I can't work as an RN under any circumstances with anything less than a BSN), but then again I'm not very likely to finish that degree untill I'm 32, which really has me thinking that my life is getting away from me very fast. If I can't work as an RN while doing my course, would say auxillary nurse be an option? Otherwise, I have also weighed up the possibility of going ahead of getting my LPN so at least I'm not dependant on waitressing for my income, then doing an LPN to BSN course online while I work as a nurse full time, but I want to be sure that neither employers or registry boards like the NMC would laugh in my face if I use internet coursework as part of my qualification. I have thought if worse comes to worse, I can wait on being a midwife for another 10 or so years, but I definately can't wait on being a nurse.

I'm in the process of choosing a nursing course and getting this started, and I need help. I'm a US citizen currently living in Georgia, and I am thinking maybe I should get my RN or LPN first before progressing further. This is for a variety of reasons, the nearest midwifery course to my current location is Emory(I want to move badly but right now finances have me stuck here), which is 2 hours away and very competitive to get into; I'm 26 now and would like to be relying on health care for 100% of my income while I'm still in my 20s; when I have researched midwifery courses overseas I could use what I learned from my nursing course as transfer credits; if I do a midwifery course overseas I would definately be better off doing nursing as my side job while studying than I would with say waitressing. I am looking at going to the UK first, and more than likely using my midwifery course or even doing advanced coursework for nursing there as an excuse to base myself there for a few years and check out Europe, after that either stay there(with my language abilities, when it comes to which European countries I can live and work in, I have UK, Ireland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Spain to choose from), return to Australia where I have lived before, or return here(which if McCain is elected, the latter will definately not be one of my options!). Part of the appeal of getting a UK qualification as part of my training is the fact that they seem to transfer a lot more easily when it comes to travelling. Plus, I would also like to do some volunteer work in South America and/or Africa as well at various points throughout my career. So, all that said, what do I need to consider so I can make both my dreams of being a midwife and jetsetter come true without wasting time in the process? If I end up going to the UK as part of my training, what other health related jobs would I be able to do if I don't yet meet up to the standards for practicing as a nurse? What are some good links about transferring a US qualification to do work overseas? And what else should I know?

I'm 26, and debating whether it's a good idea to get my LPN or RN qualifiction before embarking on a midwife course. This is for several reasons, thanks to my age I would like to be dependant on hospitality work to support myself for as short a time as possible, I have very itchy feet and would like to go work overseas as soon as possible(and very possibly do the midwifery part of the course abroad, especially as courses for this seem to be very limited in the States. So if I do this, it would help a lot if I could work as a nurse abroad while I study midwifery). To those of you who are on this path, what advice do you have to give me? Thanks in advance.