questions on how to endorse rn license to california

[Jelaine]

Im a philippine bsn graduate batch 2010. I moved to canada the same year,didnt get the chance to take the local boards. Since i live near the border, i took the Michigan and ontario Rn exam and both passed it. Im planning to move to California. I was reading the license for endorsement requirements and it says this: For International Graduates: In addition to obtaining license verification from the state where you hold acurrent and active license, you must also obtain verification of passage of the appropriate licensingexamination from the board of nursing where you took the examination (NCLEX-RN, SBTPE, or five-partlicensing examination in Canada).

What does the verification of passage means? Where do i get it from?are they asking for the michigan, canadian or the philippine passage? Do i need to get licensed from the philippines as well?

[steppybay]

Just get them all so that you're not trying to get them if one is missing.

But being a PH grad of 2010, you should be aware of the CA strict concurrency rules that has stopped thousands upon thousands from getting either the ATT or endorsement approved. It doesn't matter if you have an RN license from CN and from PH and or all 49 states and decades of paid working experience, CA BRN looks at your original school transcripts and request for full documentation (clinical cases etc) to be considered the ATT or the endorsement.

I would suggest you read the many plights and frustrations of the other posters here who graduated from the PH only to be unable to get the CA license at all. You may get lucky in that maybe your transcripts will reveal that you were in full compliance with your courses and able to meet the concurrency rules and get the license.

If not, be prepared to wait (1-2-3 years) to get enrolled in a course that you're deficient in and or have the financial means to write a check or use a credit card from $10K-30K before starting classes. If the CA BRN says your application is deficient in more than the usual two courses, get ready to re-take the entire nursing program (as that's the case since it could take you too long to find enough classes to stay within the 3 year of application completion, as many schools have a big waiting list) so it's probably best to re-take the program again to save time and money (sometimes just a wash).

If you know for a fact at 101%, that ALL your cases and clinical were ALL done within the same months of the classes, then you're good to go, but if one or more cases were done 1-2 weeks before or after the courses or 1-2 years before or after graduation, then, the CA BRN will deem your application as not meeting the concurrency rules and you have 3 years to complete the deficiencies.