Reciprocity to california

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Good day everyone. I have a problem like most foreign graduates do. I applied here in california and was asked to go to school again. After that I decided to take the nclex for virginia and passed. I am just wondering if I apply a reciprocity for california are they going to honor it even if I still have pending application from them to take the board exam? Or are they going to let me study again even If I am already an RN? Thanks guys.

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Specializes in Emergency, Tele, Med Surg, DOU, ICU.

Unfortunately, CA BON will still require you to fulfill their requirements.

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

You will still face the same hurdles that you did before. Having a license in another state makes no difference.

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Unfortunately CA BON will still require you to fulfill their requirements.[/quote']

Oh thanks! So there's really no way that I could work in californja unless I go to school again.

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You will still face the same hurdles that you did before. Having a license in another state makes no difference.

That sucks. Oh well. I might just enjoy virginia. Thanks btw

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California will not honor Virginia license, to work in CA you have to meet all their requirements,

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Oh thanks. So there's no way that I could work here in california unless I go to school again. Oh great. :l

There are some good threads on the CA schools, just read thru these forum and you'll find them.

A quick recap: there are few and far in between, expect a waiting list, some can cost from inexpensive community college fees but impacted to the less waiting with a $7,000 - $14,000 price tag (up-front tuition), class average size is 12, with other students/nurses taking deficiency courses(s) from several other countries, kind of like 1-2 per country (UK, Russia, some Latin American countries, India, Canada, several from European areas).

There are usually pre-examination testings (English and math) prior to being admitted to the waiting list (1-2-3 years plus).

Not impossible, just be prepared. The same thing is that you can try for the LVN exam in CA, work a year as an LVN (as some schools do require that to weed out the hundreds of interested applicants) then try to enroll in a LVN-RN program and what I mentioned above applies to some degree.

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