Which countries accept ADN?

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Greetings everyone, I am currently an F-1 student in the U.S., pursuing my ADN. My purpose was to obtaining the permanent residence but after much reading on allnurses.com, I suppose the probability of success is diminished with the retrogression and other economic downfall effects. As a young and naive fellow, I do not limit myself to anything yet and I also often dream of going elsewhere and practicing the job I love. Thus, I resolve to find other countries where I can happily work, shouldn't the situation brighten up in the next two years, which is very likely so. I would like to ask all of you who have information or experience related to my inquiry: which countries accept ADN from U.S. and would be a likely candidate to emigrate?

I will appreciate every and any comment you would bring forth. Sincerely,

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I have reviewed the requirements for nurses in most countries and all seem to require a BSN in nursing. Why not just do RN-BSN afterwards? There are so many RN-BSN programs online in the US that it is ridiculous.

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Thank you, Blakpepa. I've been reading similar topics in this section (which dated back to 2008 and 2006 mostly) and researching on nursing requirement in various countries, but I want to ask if anybody knows something I don't know already. Although at this point, I am still weighing my options but I know soon I have to make the decision. The RN-BSN bridge program you mentioned will be something definitely worth looking into.

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HI There are many countries that have no problems as long you have some experience as a RN with ADN. In Australia and New Zealand it is assessed by their nursing boards your level of education, training and experience on a individual basis. I have had friends that were successful in obtaining nursing registration but there are some that require BSN for example Saudi Arabia, currently Canada, United Kingdon.

If you are trained in a English speaking country USA, Canada, USA has (ADN Rns) as long you can pass successfully the english test requirement and provide evidence of your training, you ll be fine.

Take care

Good luck

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Australian board specifies 6 full time semesters in a nursing program...they also state if it is an associate degree and you are registered in your country thats ok, but if they call it an a diploma you must have further study.

Personally after working dam hard with 3 young children and part-time work on my own and a massive tuition fees, for someone with a 2 year course (if it is only 4 semesters full time nursing course) to be considered an RN with no experience, a real spit in the eye to us that do a 3 year or 6 full-time semester course.

To do an ADN is there 6 full time equivilant semesters of the study of nursing? Full-time is 4 subjects, each subject must have at least 30 hours of on campus study assesssment to the equivelant of 5,000 words and have clinical nursing of the degree of I think it is 1600 hrs.

Our EN's or what you call LPN now do a diploma course of 18 months so six months here or there.....? so that really must be considered as well.

We do have 2 year degrees but these are at Masters level or if you have a non- nursing degree of at least 3 years you can do a 2 years BN.

I do not think NZ would straightaway register a nurse with ADN without some bridging course and the UK states on their website they do not except any ADN.

As no international nurse has actually posted anywhere yet to say they have been registered through our national board

there are no cases of seeing how the new board will assess international nurses.

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