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 state 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.

Of course, I would recommend contact the Board of Nursing directly as they may give you a different story from what I have shared. Apparently, it depends on with whom you speak. Their phone # is 360.236.4706.

https://allnurses.com/forums/f125/congratulations-anticoagulation-nurse-cpne-pass-182347.html

I have been dealing (apparently un-necessarily) with this issue for over a year!

[curlynurseLPN1]

Okay so I just call WA BON and this sounds so true...I did sit for the OREgon boards but due to stress etc I did not pass so what I have to do I already paid my fee to retake and get an Oregon license now I am going retake my exam in one month hopefully. So anyways I paid the reexamination fee for WA but hopefully I can change this to endorsement fee cause I don't want to pay overtime. Anyways what do you think?

[anticoagulationurse]

You sat for the NCLEX for OR and didn't pass. I would suggest you not apply to WA when you retake, if your aim is to get out of the preceptorship requirement WA has. WA will not approve you to take the NCLEX in their name for licensure unless you do the preceptorship first. This is granted you are an LPN, if not WA will not let you endorse even if you are an RN in another state.

I would actually recommend you apply for NCLEX for Minnesota and then endorse to WA. They are cheap and efficient (online application) quick turn around time for licensure. This will be your original state of licensure which doesn't really matter, as you are not planning on working in Oregon anyway (or MN for that matter!). Does that make sense?