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Hi mademoiselle! I'm also from Canada. I just would like to know if you were able to do your electronic fingerprinting with success through Florida Fingerprinting Services & FDLE Background Investigation Checks/National Background Check. Did you use their fingerprint card or did you use the FBI (FD-258) fingerprint cards at your local police department or law enforcement agency? How long was the processing and how long did it take for Florida BON to grant your license? I've seen that there are some agencies here in Canada who do an electronic fingerprinting. I'm just wondering if Florida BON will accept LiveScan fingerprinting from them. Thank you in advance for your time and I would really appreciate it if you can share with me some ideas.

Sounds great! Good luck to your application and hoping that everything will run smoothly.

As what the Florida Board website is saying, all applicants are required to provide verification of their initial license and an active license. I've also read somewhere in the website that even if you don't have a license in that particular state but then it happened that it was the state board of nursing where you applied and you passed your NCLEX (which I believed that this is what they mean by initial license), then you need to provide a verification from this state, as well as the verification of an active license that you have acquired. Even if you have a lot of licenses in different state, you may only submit a verification of one active license. But if you want to make things clear, then I would suggest that you message the Florida Board of Nursing to avoid mistakes and possibilities of delaying your application. Please click below and scroll down to page 15 (Florida Board of Nursing License Verification Request). http://www.floridasnursing.gov/applications/lpn-rn-endorse-app.pdf

A million thanks NurseNightOwl for making life a bit easier for us. This post surely will help a lot of nurses who wants to apply for the RN license by endorsement. God bless!

@ [COLOR=#003366]freespyryt Being a wound care nurse really sounds great! But does working as an OR nurse ever come to your thoughts? There's still a lot of responsibilities to do for sure but is different from being a floor nurse. You`ll handle one patient at a time together with the OR team, surgeon, anesthesiologist and co-nurses. Check it out, who knows you might like it : )

Hi bethlearning! Which reviewer are you using? I used Saunders and La Charity and I found them really helping me so much with my exam. Don't give up. You can do it. Trust in God for He always has a good reason of why He's not giving us what we're asking right now. Good luck to your next exam and don't stop believing.

Hello aniemugundu! It's been a year now since you post this message and I just happened to read it. Anyway, you can do the refresher course at South Dakota State University through online. There are two parts, the theory which you'll do online and the clinical part in which you need to check with any hospital or long term care facility who can offer this to you. You don't have to do it in Vermont. You can do it as to which state you are now. Hope this post will still help you or others maybe who will read this post in the future.

Hi mark22 As you've mentioned in your post about Vt BON instruction, does it mean to say that if you passed the NCLEX in less than 2 years, therefore you can still renew your license without accomplishing the refresher course in which the Vermont Board of Nursing is asking? Please help, I passed my NCLEX in less than two years ago and they require me to take the refresher course. Where is it in their website did you find that they mention that we can still renew it if the exam was taken in less than two years. I really appreciate any help from you and to anyone who can lighten up my mind about this.Thank you

Hello aniemugundu Did you finally do your refresher course? Where did you do your clinicals? Is Fletcher Allen the only hospital who's giving the 120 hrs. of clinical? I'm having the same problem right now. Can you please share with me your experience with this refresher course? Thank you and I would really appreciate this

Hello rncoco. I too would love to become a RNFA someday. I'm not there yet but I did a little research about it. Go to CNOR Certification and Recertification You need to take the CNOR exam to become a Certified Nurse in the Operating Room first then take a program to become a RNFA. Check that website and it will answer some of your questions. You can email them to ask for more info. Check this website Acceptable RNFA Programs for CRNFA Certification to see the acceptable RNFA program and here's one of them RN First Assistant Home Probably you might already aware of the info which I shared to you but just in case if you don't know then here it is. Hope this helps.

Hello babymay! Don't be discouraged. There are so many people who took this exam more times than you took it and finally passed the exam. If this is what you really want in life then go for it. Be an LPN. Don't let anything stop you from what you want. Just continue on studying. When I did my RN-NCLEX, I really devoted my time of studying from a.m to p.m. I did so much practice with the cd on the computer. I wrote on my notebook my objective and my study plan and made it sure to myself that I would stick to that plan. For example, for the first two weeks my objective was to finish answering the questions of chapter I to chapter 12. Then the following two weeks I devoted it on answering the next remaining chapters. Then for another 3 weeks my target was to answer 1000-1500 questions on the cd and made it sure that I read all the reasons either I made a wrong or a correct answer. It depends on your studying habit what really works for you. Also, have some relaxing time, you need that after squeezing your brain of finding the answers to those practice questions. Practice practice and practice a lot and a lot of cd questions and your brain will get use of answering them. Another important thing, I find that doing exercises everyday even just for 30 mins of walking exercises and eating nutritious foods helps a lot of understanding and answering those questions. It really works well for me. And the most important thing, prayers. God is just there watching over you and listening to your prayers. Don't give up. You might not have it now, but the right time will come. Just be very patient. Good luck and I wish you the best for your coming exam.

Hi evgace! This post was been a while but I just would like to know if you finally end up working in Genesis ( Bel-aire or St Albans ) and how is the working condition there and what's the nurse-patient ratio. I will really appreciate any info. Thank you very much.

Hi! I don't think so California will issue you a license without a SSN since you only took your exam last June and they made those changes with the SSN requirement since April 2011. 4 months is a long period of waiting. I would suggest that you'll call CABON and see why you didn't receive your results until now. Good luck to your results and God bless!!!

Hi comeonlucas! I have the same problem in finding the right CES report for Vermont license requirement. I can't find any other post talking about it. So finally which one is comparable to the full course by course report in CGFNS. Is it the Professional CES or the Academic report CES? Thank you!

Hi luv2runRNnow! This post might be a bit old but I would like to know if you're still working in North Country Hospital and how is the hospital as to co workers, the management, the mentoring and the hospital in general. It sounds to be so attractive to work there the way I read their website. But as I've read in some discussions in this forum, there are some part of Vermont who are not really welcoming other races. Is Newport one of them? How many months do they train nurses who doesn't have an experience in such special field like ER, Med-Surg etc. Does the hospital demand a year of working commitment to be accepted for the job? And lastly, do you have any idea how much is their starting offer for nurses without experience? I'm so sorry to ask you all of these questions but it's just because I don't know anybody to ask for all of these questions. Thank you very much for your time.