coopa_troopa

Do CGFNS have all of your transcripts already? If they do, you just have to keep on to them to get their finger out......they are chronic :curse:

And yes, know what you mean about having to start learning paeds & ob for the NCLEX......not forgetting psych & pharmacology, you can get a lot of questions on those too I'm afraid

What are you using as study guides? I can highly recommend the ncsbn online course. I'm convinced that's what helped me through.

DavidM

I'm in NJ but travel extensively and it really sucks these days. When I first moved here in '83 it was a great country but just like the UK its been run down by the greedy cheap-labour, short-term-profit, global corporate dictatorship. I'm flying back this weekend and will be taking my 7" Ka-bar knife with me (camping equipment). BTW my ex-MIL from Fords, NJ was an RN and she always said the best money here is as a "Private Duty" nurse. Some kind of nurse sub-contracting I guess. 100k+ I believe. I think the Polish nurse who inherited the J&J fortune was doing that - and maybe a few extras too.

DavidM

I was sitting on a bed half-naked with the door open waiting for the x-ray technician to finish chatting-up the duty nurse for an hour. The x-rays took half-an-hour. Back to the open room for another hour. Then the nurse suddenly appeared (from the closet?) and slammed the door shut without saying a word. Finally I was handed the bill. Can I have some more sir?

Ozzidoc

Well that just sounds like apathy on the part of the service providers. You'd be well within your rights to be complaining about that!

Silverdragon102

Be prepared if you haven't enough hours in Paeds, mental health and midwifery you may have to make them up before they will allow you to sit NCLEX. As well as using NCSBN online I also found Saunders a great study book. Norm for CGFNS to take over 4 months, took me nearly 12 months and they had all my docs within 3 months and had to make numerous phone calls. Check out the NCLEX forum in allnurses.com plenty of good study tips for the exam

Belinda-wales

Well are I and dh worked for twenty years each as nurses in uk and well and are both having the best of time in the usa I guess each to their own

fluxsta

Hi all, have posted in regards to mental health and no replies as of yet? maybe someone can help me on this particular thread? there is much talk of Registered Nurses (RGN in UK) ....but I have really struggled to find any equivalent talk of RN in Mental Health (RMN in UK)......I believe the US requires everyone to do CNA then RN and then specialise or just become RN then specialise in psychiatry if that is the route u chose?

So, my question is does anyone know what routes there are for an RMN in the USA and whether my UK qualification 'directly translates' into US nursing terms and a I can attach a specific role to it?? Appears that America does not have this distinction that the UK does with Registered 'general' Nurse and Registered 'mental' Nurse? I haven't done any paediatrics or maternity training required by NCLEX or CGFNS.

Anyone help?? i know the rules vary state to state. I would be interested in going to Oregon. i have tried to contact the State Board of Nursing there, but they were like 'what?' 'whats an RMN??' and seemed to not know anything about UK nursing. I have read a book by Eugenie Houston called 'Nursing in America', which is very informative. However, it is only geared toward those (what we would identify) 'general nurses' or RN's with a more medical background? I am tearing my hair out here for info on psychiatric nurse opportunities in the USA. I also have a Bachelors Honours Degree in Psychology, and I cannot believe for one second that my RN in Mental Health/Psychiatry does not translate to a similar position without having to take the NCLEX, which i simply wouldn't pass due to my limited knowledge of general medical procedures and terminology etc.
Sorry for long mail, but i need help here??
thanks

Ray

RN for schedule A visa ..thats it ..

fluxsta

RN for schedule A?? sorry Ray, you will have to explain....all this visa terminlogy is lost on me even though ido my research, or at least have begun to!! ;-)

Ray

Green cards for nurses run out a while back ..so far no more have been made available ...

More info here http://www.messersmithlaw.com/green-...chedule-a.html

Belinda-wales

I know a nurse who has got her Embassy interview next week and will get her greencard three days after that

Ray

She may be getting her visa 3 days later .. not her green card ..

coopa_troopa

She's probably in EB3 category, and waited years for this interview.

Silverdragon102

Yes but her PD is 2005 and her file has been stuck in London for well over 7 months. I wish her well but many more are stuck waiting and some even looking at other countries

mrandmrssunshine

Perhaps the US is not as desperate as I thought for Nurses because they make it so difficult for us to come over. I know some nurses who just gave up and went elsewhere in the country.