Washington and Exclesior Preceptorship

[anticoagulationurse]

Excelsior students beware, apparently even inquiring directly to your BoN is not a sure fire way to figure out the hurdles of earning an Excelsior education.

WASHINGTON Excelsior students. The BoN will tell you that you are required to do a 250 hour preceptorship (which they will tell you they don't care if it is paid or not, but seriously, who is going to pay you to be an RN when you haven't been allowed by the BoN to take the boards -Catch 22). You do not have to do this. You must simply apply for the NCLEX for another state and simply endorse your RN license from that state to WA afterward. No preceptorship, no proving you have worked as a nurse in that original state of RN licensure for 250 hours. Nothing. Just pay the fees and be done with it. Best wishes to you all, may you learn from my apparently unorthodox way of getting through the (imaginary) hurdles.

To read more, and hear my story from the beginning: https://allnurses.com/forums/f125/congratulations-anticoagulation-nurse-cpne-pass-182347.html

[ready4cpne]

WASHINGTON Excelsior students. You must simply apply for the NCLEX for another state and simply endorse your RN license from that state to WA afterward. No preceptorship, no proving you have worked as a nurse in that original state of RN licensure for 250 hours. Nothing. Just pay the fees and be done with it. Best wishes to you all, may you learn from my apparently unorthodox way of getting through the (imaginary) hurdles.

I just wanted to add that this approach will not work in CA. Even after the new changes that Excelsior is negotiating with CA's board are adopted, the CA board will check transcripts from applicants with RN licensure in other states, and excelsior students who enrolled and graduated after the board disqualified excelsior(in 12/03, I think) will have to heed the new requirements. Currently, if you enrolled and graduated after that date, even if you got a license and practiced for two years in another state, you cannot test and get a license in CA.