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, 

Hope you are all well. I'm a student nurse currently in first year which the goal of moving to the US once qualified. I was wondering if anyone would happen to know on which sort of placements I can get obs/gyn, paeds, mental health covered. I've read that some people have mentioned A&E and community placements had allowed them to be covered for the clinical hours. Would those placements have exposure to children? If I have a placement on obs/gyn would that cover the deficiencies? Do you have any advice that I can take into consideration to help me move when the time comes? 
 

thank you 

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ScottishNurse22 said:

Congratulations Charlie! That's great. I've just had my University send my transcripts for a 3rd time after a lot of kicking and screaming. Tracking shows the CGFNS now have them (thank the lord) so just waiting for their feedback. 

Fingers crossed! Did you apply for New York State?

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Aamina said:

Hello, 

Hope you are all well. I'm a student nurse currently in first year which the goal of moving to the US once qualified. I was wondering if anyone would happen to know on which sort of placements I can get obs/gyn, paeds, mental health covered. I've read that some people have mentioned A&E and community placements had allowed them to be covered for the clinical hours. Would those placements have exposure to children? If I have a placement on obs/gyn would that cover the deficiencies? Do you have any advice that I can take into consideration to help me move when the time comes? 
 

thank you 

Hi, I did an adult nursing degree in UK with nil mental health or maternity placements or paeds. Once I qualified I worked in paeds/ adult emergency, ICU, gen paeds neonatal ICU (counted as maternity?). I got approved for New York state with nil extra courses.

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Charlie_atkinson said:

Hi, I did an adult nursing degree in UK with nil mental health or maternity placements or paeds. Once I qualified I worked in paeds/ adult emergency, ICU, gen paeds neonatal ICU (counted as maternity?). I got approved for New York state with nil extra courses.

Thank you so much for your response and congratulations! I have some questions if that's okay since I'm not able to PM you:

How much experience is required to start the process of moving to the states to practise?

Once there is it possible to start working as a travel nurse after one has gained confidence/experience?

You mentioned you didn't have to do any additional course, but I've read that a lot of people were deficient in areas which made their process difficult- is NY an easier state to move to or is it based on luck in terms of transcripts and whether the state accept the experience someone has gained once qualified in those 'deficient' areas?

My university offer an international placement abroad, would you know if this would count towards my clinical hours if I happen to get experience with paeds/maternity etc?

Thank you

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Charlie_atkinson said:

Update!

I got my approval for the NCLEX!

no need to do any extra study ect

straight from a UK adult nursing degree for new york state

Congratulations! What was the timeline from the day you paid to the day you received you CES? How long did it take?

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Charlie_atkinson said:

Hi, I did an adult nursing degree in UK with nil mental health or maternity placements or paeds. Once I qualified I worked in paeds/ adult emergency, ICU, gen paeds neonatal ICU (counted as maternity?). I got approved for New York state with nil extra courses.

So do you think your work experience helped? Plus did you add your work experience on your CGFNS APPLICATION 

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Esther140 said:

Congratulations! What was the timeline from the day you paid to the day you received you CES? How long did it take?

Applied for CGFNS 06/2022 and received approval 01/2023. Took slightly longer as I didn't realise you have to pay another fee and apply for NY also for licence.

Esther140 said:

So do you think your work experience helped? Plus did you add your work experience on your CGFNS APPLICATION 

I don't think I did add it. So I must have been lucky maybe

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Charlie_atkinson said:

Applied for CGFNS 06/2022 and received approval 01/2023. Took slightly longer as I didn't realise you have to pay another fee and apply for NY also for licence.

I don't think I did add it. So I must have been lucky maybe

Oh that's great. So did you start with Applying for a CES of a different state before you went for NY?

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Esther140 said:

Oh that's great. So did you start with Applying for a CES of a different state?

I applied for CGFNS New york stream. Then applied directly to NY state nursing once CGFNS was completed

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Charlie_atkinson said:

I applied for CGFNS New york stream. Then applied directly to NY state nursing once CGFNS was completed

New York stream? Is that a state?

I've seen here some have applied for CES of a state let's say Texas and have been deficient. Then apply for NY CVS and got the approval.

 

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Esther140 said:

New York stream? Is that a state?

I've seen here some have applied for CES of a state let's say Texas and have been deficient. Then apply for NY CVS and got the approval.

 

As in new york state yes

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I have approval to sit my NCLEX-RN. UK nurse to New York state nursing. 

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