UK RN to New York

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Hello fellow nurses. I am currently 4 years out of nursing school and working in Australia in Paediatrics as a RN. I did my BSc in Adult nursing in London. I am wondering if there are any UK nurses who got licensed in NY. I have just applied for the CGFNS last night. I understand I may need to do maternity ect. Second question anyone know of any schools in NY or the USA that offers this?

 

 

Thanks

Charlie :)

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Hello, how is the CGFNS process going? Are you deficient in some areas if nursing?

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On 6/11/2022 at 5:30 AM, Charlie_atkinson said:

Hello fellow nurses. I am currently 4 years out of nursing school and working in Australia in Paediatrics as a RN. I did my BSc in Adult nursing in London. I am wondering if there are any UK nurses who got licensed in NY. I have just applied for the CGFNS last night. I understand I may need to do maternity ect. Second question anyone know of any schools in NY or the USA that offers this?

 

 

Thanks

Charlie ?

Hi 

UK adult trained nurse here in the same situation. I’ve applied for CES report through CGFNS to gain license to work in Pennsylvania. I applied start in July and all very slow! 
I found it all very negative when asking on transitioning from UK to US nurse tbh. No one seems to know what to do if you are deficient.

I do know a couple of UK trained nurses who have applied to NY and gained licensure with no issues and then went onto apply to other states. 
How is the process going for you? I am wondering if I should have applied to NY then applied for endorsement to another state - there is also a fellow forum user in the same predicament as is so any info would be much appreciated   
 

All the best 

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1 hour ago, ScottishNurse22 said:

Hi 

UK adult trained nurse here in the same situation. I’ve applied for CES report through CGFNS to gain license to work in Pennsylvania. I applied start in July and all very slow! 
I found it all very negative when asking on transitioning from UK to US nurse tbh. No one seems to know what to do if you are deficient.

I do know a couple of UK trained nurses who have applied to NY and gained licensure with no issues and then went onto apply to other states. 
How is the process going for you? I am wondering if I should have applied to NY then applied for endorsement to another state - there is also a fellow forum user in the same predicament as is so any info would be much appreciated   
 

All the best 

Hey! I am not a UK nurse but I know of someone who went through this process. Send me a private message and I will provide you her Youtube channel. Very informative on how she met those hours. I can't post her information here 

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53 minutes ago, Chichi89 said:

Hey! I am not a UK nurse but I know of someone who went through this process. Send me a private message and I will provide you her Youtube channel. Very informative on how she met those hours. I can't post her information here 

It won't let me send a private message ?

my insta is the same as my username 

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1 hour ago, Charlie_atkinson said:

It won't let me send a private message ?

my insta is the same as my username 

Okay let me post briefly what she said. As an adult nurse, she was deficient in peds, obs&gyn, mental health when she applied for CFGNS. How did she eventually get comparable result? During her last placement in nursing school, she requested for community placements, there she met MH patients, children, followed health visitors who were seeing babies. She had to tell her assessor to write an official letter, stating how many hours she spent taking care of MH, child and pregnant women. She took this letter to her dean and her dean approved the hours. Her dean then wrote a letter to CGFNS, stating she had placements in these areas. Included her transcripts, curriculum and hours. This was how she made up the clinical aspect.

For theory, in her foundation year, these areas where incorporated in each of their courses. With these CGFNS assessed her credentials to become comparable to the US standard. You can also try using ERES (it is limited t9 certain states). So if you have graduated, check to see if you had community placements you should be able to make up these hours.

I hope this helps

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5 hours ago, Charlie_atkinson said:

It won't let me send a private message ?

my insta is the same as my username 

Hi Charlie I’ve sent you a message on Insta 

Thanks Lauren

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On 10/6/2022 at 4:00 AM, Chichi89 said:

Hey! I am not a UK nurse but I know of someone who went through this process. Send me a private message and I will provide you her YouTube channel. Very informative on how she met those hours. I can't post her information here 

Please how can I also get the information, I have the same issue.

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2 hours ago, Esther140 said:

Please how can I also get the information, I have the same issue.

I tried to send you a message but I can't because you seem to be new here from your profile. I can't post any private information here as well, will be going against the rule.

Are you still in nursing school or you have graduated? Did you have a chance to do your placement in a community setting were you saw people of different age groups? Ranging from Child to Adult, oby&gyn...mental health disorders?

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My email is [email protected]. I didn’t do a community placement but I did an A & E placement.

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4 minutes ago, Esther140 said:

My email is [email protected]. I didn’t do a community placement but I did an A & E placement.

Check your email 

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On 10/6/2022 at 6:28 AM, Chichi89 said:

Okay let me post briefly what she said. As an adult nurse, she was deficient in peds, obs&gyn, mental health when she applied for CFGNS. How did she eventually get comparable result? During her last placement in nursing school, she requested for community placements, there she met MH patients, children, followed health visitors who were seeing babies. She had to tell her assessor to write an official letter, stating how many hours she spent taking care of MH, child and pregnant women. She took this letter to her dean and her dean approved the hours. Her dean then wrote a letter to CGFNS, stating she had placements in these areas. Included her transcripts, curriculum and hours. This was how she made up the clinical aspect.

For theory, in her foundation year, these areas where incorporated in each of their courses. With these CGFNS assessed her credentials to become comparable to the US standard. You can also try using ERES (it is limited t9 certain states). So if you have graduated, check to see if you had community placements you should be able to make up these hours.

I hope this helps

Hi I’m just reading this comment back. What is ERES? 

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