Accelerated Nursing Programs For Foreign Medical Graduates
Further information about both of those programs can be found in the catalog.
Accelerated nursing programs for foreign medical graduates. International students may pursue an associate or bachelor s degree or seek advanced. If a foreign medical graduate decides to shift into a nursing career how should one go about it. From where i m from after you graduate from high school and want to be a nurse all you do is enroll in a 4yr bachelors degree in nursing. Azure college nursing asn program is designed with the foreign grad mds and dentists in mind.
Most of those enrolled were trained as physicians in cuba haiti russia or the european block. It seems as if there s a number of nursing programs out there that it s so confusing. The program is seen as one solution to the state s nursing shortage. Nurses and physicians are different professions in the us.
Graduates of this program are conferred with a bsn degree after the successful passing of the nclex exam. The program offers four specialties as nurse practitioners in. She came to the us took the exams to ensure you spoke adequate english and applied. Her specialty was ob gyn.
Many of the foreign educated physicians who have entered the nursing program were already working in hospitals as medical assistants nurse assistants or phlebotomists. The foreign educated physician to bachelor of science in nursing fep bsn program is an innovative specialized first in the nation nursing program where foreign educated physicians feps residing in the united states us who are either unemployed or underemployed attend an accelerated baccalaureate curriculum that awards them the bachelor of science in nursing bsn degree. I had a student who had doctorates phd and md from her country. Many graduates of the program work in hospitals clinics school systems wound care centers and medical specialties.
It provides them a nursing education track that will serve as a worthwhile pathway for these individuals with exceptional health care knowledge and skills to gain employment as registered nurses thereby assisting to alleviate the nursing shortage. The program is done in 2 steps. The program can be completed in as few as 8 semesters or 26 months. The program is a combination of two established nursing programs accelerated bsn and msn primary care nurse practitioner.
Colleges and universities offer various nursing degree options at the undergrad and graduate levels. Family adult pediatrics 18 years and younger and psychiatric. The initial step is a md to bsn rn which is an accelerated post baccalaureate program offered over 4 semesters and is completed in 15 months.