UK Nurses making the jump to USA?

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · Mar 30, 2016

Hey, there. We moved your thread to our Immigration Advice forum where your question will be answered more accurately in the next day. Good luck to you.

loriangel14, RN · Mar 30, 2016

https://allnurses.com/advice-on-immigration/british-rgn-looking-1039163.html

This thread may give you an idea.

Silverdragon102, BSN · Mar 30, 2016

Until you apply and your transcripts assessed it is hard to say if you will meet US state requirements however your transcripts have to show both clinical and theory in Paeds, Mental Health, Obstetrics and Adults and average requirements tend to be 75 plus hours both clinical and theory as a rough guide.

Only once you have passed NCLEX will the journey really beginning with a starting point of trying to find a employer willing to wait the couple of years or more it may take before a immigrant visa is available to you.

I suggest getting sorted with registration once you have graduated and then look at imigration

rachiedrake11 · Mar 30, 2016

Hey thanks for your reply, I know this makes me sound super stupid but where do I apply?

elkpark · Mar 30, 2016

You apply to the BON of the US state in which you wish to be licensed. Each individual state licenses and regulates the practice of nursing within its borders.

Silverdragon102, BSN · Mar 30, 2016

Also depends on the state. California for example will not accept application without a US SSN and you can't get that until in the US and working. Which state are you looking at? There are links to the various state boards of nursing at the bottom of the page

rachiedrake11 · Mar 31, 2016

Okay thank you both. Im looking at Tn / Ga.

rachiedrake11 · Mar 31, 2016

Hey, this is my theory hours and my course plan, I appear to have 120 credits in all fields of nursing. Does anyone know if thats usually enough? Thanks :)

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[TD]Professional Values and Academic Skills

(30 Credit Double Module)

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[TD]This module discusses the core concepts of care within a diverse society. Professional values and the ethical and legal frameworks which impact on the delivery of care are introduced. Strategies to facilitate the students' personal, professional and academic development are explored. The teaching and learning strategy used by the module team makes explicit the skills of team working, leadership and partnership working. The module also lays down the foundations for lifelong learning.

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[TD]Introduction to Nursing Practice and Decision Making

(30 Credit Double Module)

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[TD]This module will encompass the relevant principles of anatomy, physiology and microbiology to support the development of core nursing skills relevant to all fields of practice. The module is planned with due regard to the issues of care, compassion and communication, organisational aspects of care, infection prevention and control, nutrition and fluid maintenance, and medicines management. These essential nursing skills will be underpinned with a sound physiological basis, particularly with reference to service user observations. Successful completion of this module would facilitate students to practice in a compassionate, respectful way maintaining dignity and wellbeing and communicating effectively.

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[TD]Health in Society (30 Credit Double Module)

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[TD]This core module aims to empower nurses to recognize and scale up their important role in the design, monitoring and delivery of services to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. Students will gain an awareness of health promotion/education to tackle health inequalities and support behavioural changes in an individual and within society. Nursing will be explored within the context of current socioeconomic, health and demographic trends taking a holistic lifespan approach.

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[TD]Adult Nursing Practice 1 (30 Credit Double Module)

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[TD]This field specific module will introduce students to key aspects of the holistic service user medical and surgical assessment processes. Four areas will be covered during the module â€“ these will be the respiratory system, cardio and neurovascular disease and renal disease. Principles of assessment and relevant interventions are discussed and clinical skills related to each area undertaken.

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ADULT YEAR 2

Module Overviews: Level 5

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[TD]Nursing in Society (30 Credit Double Module)

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[TD]This core module aims to prepare students to develop their knowledge, skills and professional values to deliver high quality essential and complex care to all service users. It is concerned with human experiences as individuals, families, groups and communities across the life span. The module aims to develop students' understanding of how peoples' lifestyles, environments and the location of care delivery influence their health and wellbeing. The need for professional and effective communication, both verbal and written is seen as paramount and these principles underpin the whole module philosophy.

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[TD]Professional Values and Evidence Based Practice

(30 Credit Double Module)

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[TD]The aim of this core module is to focus on the framework of moral, ethical, legal and professional values that inform nursing practice and allow nurses to effectively function within society. Building on input from the first year, students will be expected to critically analyse key concepts and debate meaning within different clinical situations. Students will be expected to demonstrate the ability to effectively and safely apply these concepts to the clinical situation using field specific case studies that relate to both hospital and community settings.

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[TD]Adult Nursing Practice 2 (30 Credit Double Module)

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[TD]This field specific module aims to complement the other clinical modules of the pre-registration nursing programme in developing the students' knowledge and understanding of how to interpret care needs and intervene accordingly for given clinical situations.

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[TD]Adult Nursing Practice 3 (30 Credit Double Module)

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[TD]This field specific module aims to enable the student to develop their clinical assessment and decision making skills in both community and hospital environments, in order to demonstrate safe and effective practice.

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ADULT YEAR 3

Module Overviews: Level 6

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[TD]Adult Academic and Practice Enquiry (30 Credit Double)

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[TD]The field specific module academic and practice enquiry module progresses the adult field students' insight in clinical decision making. Students are expected to explore a range of sources of information and critically reflect on how this influences their decision-making in clinical practice. The focus for enquiry is the student's choice. It is expected that students will enquire on important areas of their practice relative to their field of nursing.

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[TD]Adult Nursing Practice 4 (30 Credit Double Module)

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[TD]This field specific module aims to prepare students to be responsive to the changing health needs of adult service users with complex health care needs in both the community and hospital setting. It will allow students to ensure that they develop robust recognition skills of early pathophysiological condition changes so they can be active participants in maintaining health. Equal emphasis is placed upon the student's development of prioritisation and rationalisation skills to ensure safe and appropriate nursing care interventions are planned in response to changes in service users' conditions.

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[TD]Policy, Politics and Nursing (30 Credit Double Module)

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[TD]This module will develop students' knowledge of political and policy drivers and their application to contemporary nursing practice. It will promote a critically evaluative approach to Nursing care, placing emphasis on enhancing reflective practice and evidence based health care. It will ensure our students have a robust understanding of the importance of policy as applied to practice.

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[TD]Adult Transition to Qualified Practitioner (30 Credit Double Module)

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[TD]This field specific module adopts a student centred approach to teaching in preparing adult field students to work within an ever changing healthcare environment, helping students to ease their transition from student nurse into registered practitioner.

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elkpark · Mar 31, 2016

Every state BON sets its own standards for licensure. None of us can tell you whether your transcript will meet the requirements for either TN or GA (esp. since what you posted is typical, vague, academic-speak :)). In order to be eligible for licensure in any US state, your school transcripts will need to include a sufficient quantity (as determined by each, individual state) of both didactic (lecture/classroom) and supervised clinical hours in adult med-surg, pediatrics, OB, and psychiatric nursing (enough hours in each of those specialty areas, not just enough total hours).

HelenaUK · Apr 10, 2016

Rachel I am in the exact same boat - adult nursing and only did 2 weeks mental health and no paeds or obs - am desperate to move to Florida and am worried it won't be enough. Would a gynae ward count as obs though?

JustBeachyNurse, LPN · Apr 10, 2016

Rachel I am in the exact same boat - adult nursing and only did 2 weeks mental health and no paeds or obs - am desperate to move to Florida and am worried it won't be enough. Would a gynae ward count as obs though?

Gynecology might count if done during school and you had theory as listed on your educational transcripts.