Public Health RNs - Question

[Potato13, BSN]

Hey everyone,

I'm a RN in SoCal who has been wanting to go into public health. While looking at the BRN website it looks like I would need a PHN certificate to practice. One of the requirements for the cert is a nursing degree that "includes coursework in public health nursing, including a minimum of 90 hours of supervised clinical experience in a public health setting(s)". I went to nursing school out of state and my program did not include 90 hours of clinicals in a public health setting (it was more like 32 hours...yikes). I graduated during COVID as well, so our clinical hours were cut short although I did have to complete a general public health course as part of the program. Does anyone have experience with this? Does this mean I would need to go back to school in order to obtain those hours?

Additionally, I need to complete the 7-hour mandatory reporting CEs for CA for the application. I've been searching for legit companies that offer this course but having trouble finding one that is verified through the DCA license search. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Thank you for your help!

[RDS707]

Howdy, did you ever get your PHN Cert? I'm stuck in a similar boat now of 50 of the 90 hours from my out of state BSN (thank god it included a class at least too). Thanks!