ikayar

The only way you can be exempted is if you earned a bachelors of science in nursing in the United States or a country that is exempt from the English requirement (UK, Canada (except Quebec), Ireland, Australia) Even though you have a master's degree, it won't exempt you from the English requirement, even if you have a Masters in Nursing. They go by the country where you earned your bachelors/diploma.

Gerontology is now required by the Maryland Board of Nursing and they require CGFNS to report on it in their CES reports, so you really only have to take that into consideration if your recipient is the Maryland Board.

i should clarify. when cgfns states registered nurse in their handbook, they are talking in terms of a registered nurse in the united states. the ministry of health in taiwan gives the title of "registered professional nurse" to first level nurses and the title of "registered nurse" to their second level vocational nurses, they are not called anything else there. cgfns is definitely aware of this distinction and that is why you got that that letter. when cgfns says registered nurse, they are talking about the united states only, as many countries have different terms for their nurses. since you graduated from a bachelor's program, you should be fine. the validation may have been erroneously listed by the ministry of health, which is why i thought why they asked for a confirmation of a first level title. anyways, i think you should be fine.

the title of registered nurse in taiwan is a second level/lpn title. the title they are looking for is registered professional nurse. the health authority in taiwan makes this distinction. though i have to tell you looking at experiences from other nurses from taiwan that have gone through the process, that if you graduated from a secondary school/vocational program that is less than five years in length and the authority in taiwan did not report your title as being a registered professional nurse but only as a registered nurse, then they cannot consider your a 1st level nurse without the proper title, which is registered professional nurse. i'm not surprised but expect this to delay things a bit. i guess you should go to the health authority and ask them to send another validation to cgfns because they'll probably come back and tell you the same thing again.