US RN or UK RN which one is more qualified??

[nathan04]

When it comes to becoming an RN in the US, I guess their nursing system is fair enough, compared to their counterpart in the UK, wherein a nurse from overseas, have to undergo an ONP ( Overseas Nurses Programme) for 20 days from the uni and a supervised adaptation programme for 3-6 months in a hospital or audited nursing home supervised by a UK nurse/ mentor, which amounts roughly to 5,000US$ in total spending. In the USA meanwhile, a nurse will just have to take the NCLEX/ CGFNS exam, regardless of which country he/she graduated from or which nationality he/she came from. Isn't this a lot cheaper and not as time consumming as in the UK.

My concern is which country has the better RN quality, the one who took the NCLEX RN exam or the other one who went back to university for 20 days and was supervised for 3-6 months in the hospital setting to become an RN?

[alabamanurse10]

I am a nurse in the U. S. and I want to go to england for a few years. What steps do I need to take to get my license in the U.K.?

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

I am a nurse in the U. S. and I want to go to england for a few years. What steps do I need to take to get my license in the U.K.?

If not from the EU then will find it hard to get a work permit. You will need to meet NMC requirements for overseas training and pass English test plus a ONP but doing that will not guarantee work permit. Requirements currently are employ citizen of country then EU before the rest of the world. Many UK nurses are currently struggling to find work

[michaelarose]

why compare training from nurses in each country as even different universities and colleges have different standards of trainig in the uk the same as each nursing school over here has different standards. it allcomes down to the nurse in the end. i have worked with both the good and the bad both sides of the atlantic. it hasnt made a bit of difference where they trained or which country they came from. some nurses dont have even the most basic understanding of a patient's needs or their medical condition.

money will always be a feature of working in each other's country.either the state boards or the nmc or cgfns which we are made to use, even although they give a very poor service.

i have to agree with this. each nursing school in the us picks what nursing theory it wants to follow. the theory i was taught under in school was different than the theory my hospital adopts for work. so i expect theories to very greatly from country to country.