State Boards

Originally posted by vrsgirl30

Hi everyone...I am new to this site but it looks to be very informative. I have been going to school forever it seems,lol, to get to an RN- associates degree, and finally I thought I had made it my pinning was to be Dec. 12 I had taken my finally and completed everything except for a couple more weeks of clinicals. Well my kids have been sick alot the last couple of months and I seem to catch everything they bring home, I got a virus in Sept and had to miss two days of clinical , my instructor sent me home and told me not to come back until I wasn't running fever, I got a note from the doctor . And then the week before Thanksgiving I ended up with Strep throat so my doctor said I shouldn't go to clinicals until I was on antibiotics for 48 hours so any way to make a long story shorter , the college I was attending has now decided that I can't graduate because I missed those hours of clinical. Some people have told me that there are some states where you can sit for your boards without having your degree, I don't know if this is true or not but I would appreciate any information anyone has I was getting ready to start a job as an RN and now I am being told that isn't going to happen. Thanks for taking time to read this and for any response you might have....

I am not positive, depends on your state, but I have never heard that you could take boards without the basic school stating that you graduated.

Wow, that's just awful! I'm so sorry you had to go through all of that---- I bet you're just a wreck!

I think there are 2 ways that states can do it---- some only require the school to send the State Board an affidavit of graduation (proof that you have graduated even though you technically haven't actuallygraduated yet. There are a few states that do it this way--- I know Minnesota, TX, and Ohio are 3. There are a couple more though. The 2nd way is actually more time consuming because you have to wait and wait until you HAVE actually graduated.

I do have a question though....... you can't graduate on Dec. 12th..... but the next semester that will be starting--- is there a clinical rotation that they would be willing to stick you on then so you can finish up your clinicals?