There are 30 conditions for taking the international nurse certificate to go abroad.

The full name of cgfns is CGFNS, which was established in 1977. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, it is mainly led by American Nursing Association and National Nursing Association. CGFNS is the abbreviation of American overseas nurse qualification examination institution. It is a foreign nurse qualification examination recognized by American Nursing Association and US Immigration Bureau, and it is a necessary document for foreign nurses to apply for a US visa. The main task of CGFNS is to confirm that the academic background of these foreign nurses educated abroad meets the level and standards of professional nurses in the United States, and they are competent for the work of registered nurses in the United States to ensure the safety of the American public.

What is 1? CGFNS？

CGFNS is the abbreviation of the Commission on Foreign Nursing Schools Graduate Committee, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It is an independent, semi-official and non-profit examination institution. It is mainly organized by American Nursing Association (ANA) and National Nursing Alliance (NLN). The organization was founded in 1977 with a history of 25 years. America is a country of immigrants. In the late 1960s, with the increasing demand for nurses in the United States, more and more overseas nurses immigrated to the United States to engage in nursing work. When these nurses who received nursing education outside the United States applied for immigrant visas, the Immigration Bureau did not have a good standard to judge whether overseas nurses had the conditions to engage in nursing work in the United States. Therefore, the American government began to propose the establishment of institutions, and CGFNS institutions were also established.

With the increasing demand for nursing in the United States, especially the repeated shortage of nursing teams in the United States in the past 20 years, CGFNS qualification examination has developed vigorously. Now there are 40 test centers in 29 countries and regions around the world, including China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Taiwan Province Province. The first test will be held in Chinese mainland test center on June 5438+065438+ 10/2, 2003.

The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Health said that in June last year, 5438+ 10, the Ministry of Health agreed to set up a CGFNS examination center in Peking University. Its qualification has been recognized by American Nursing Association, Labor Department and Immigration Bureau, which is the first condition for going abroad to engage in nursing work. The source also said that the introduction of CGFNS examination will greatly promote the internationalization of nursing education in China and improve the training quality of nursing talents in China.

2. Why do you want to take CGFNS?

The main function of CGFNS is to hold "qualification examination and certification" for nurses who have received nursing education outside the United States, and to test the nursing knowledge and English ability of foreign nurses as one of the qualifications and conditions for going to the United States to engage in the nursing industry. There are two advantages for foreign nurses to take the American CGFNS exam. First of all, according to the statistics of CGFNS, the proportion of nurses who hold CGFNS certificates and receive education abroad who pass the RN license examination for the first time is as high as 85-90%. Secondly, foreign nurses can take the CGFNS qualification exam and TOEFL exam in many parts of the world, so that applicants can save time and money, and they can also obtain the CGFNS certificate in their own country before taking the NCLEX-RN exam in the United States.

3. When and where did Chinese mainland hold the first CGFNS exam?

In May, 2002, CGFNS decided to set up an examination center in Beijing, China, which undoubtedly opened the door for nurses from China to work in the United States and provided them with the opportunity to work in the United States. On June 5438+065438+1October 12, 2003, the American CGFNS Qualification Nurse Examination will land in Beijing, China for the first time. That is to say, the majority of nurses in China will be lucky enough to obtain American nurse certification without going abroad.

4. When did 4.CGFNS sign up for the exam?

The CGFNS exam is held three times a year, in March and July, 165438+ October. All the test centers in the world hold exams on the same day. The deadline for registration of CGFNS exam is 3 months before the exam.

5. What is the content of 5.CGFNS exam?

The nursing knowledge test of CGFNS is based on what nurses must know and master in nursing work in the United States. Therefore, candidates must know about American nursing knowledge and clinical fields, as well as American nursing culture and nursing system.

The examination questions in the part of nursing knowledge include five traditional clinical fields of nursing work, namely, adult nursing, child nursing, maternal and infant nursing, mental health nursing and community health nursing. Test the overall synthesis, not all subjects.

The examination questions are more related to common clinical problems, focusing on the influence of diseases on human functions, rather than the theoretical concepts of diseases themselves and school learning.

The CGFNS exam is similar to the NCLEX-RN exam, based on the needs of customers, and requires applicants to have the same understanding of nursing work in various customers and environments as the recent nursing school graduates in the United States.

6. What is the form and structure of 6.CGFNS exam?

The form of CGFNS test is a written test with four choices in English. There are 260 questions, divided into two parts. The test time is 4 hours and 20 minutes. After the first part of the exam, take a lunch break 1 hour, and then take the second part. The time allocation of examination questions is roughly one minute to complete one question. The CGFNS test does not test listening, speaking and English writing skills.

Morning: The first part (150 questions, 150 minutes) consists of the following aspects:

Evaluation, analysis, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing procedures;

The needs of patients or customers;

Safe and effective nursing environment;

The integrity of social psychology;

Physiological integrity;

Human health care.

Afternoon: Part II (1 10 question, 1 10 minutes), the content of the test questions is:

(1) nursing procedure;

(2) the needs of patients.

7. What are the categories of 7.CGFNS questions?

(1) Safe and effective nursing environment (12%-24%)

(2) Human growth and health guarantee (12%-24%)

(3) Psychological integrity (10%-22%)

(4) Physiological integrity (3 1%-55%)

8.CGFNS Qualification Examination Results

The answer sheet of CGFNS exam is judged by computer, and there are only two results in the exam: pass or fail, and no specific score analysis is made. Candidates usually receive their transcripts six to eight weeks after the exam. Although there are no specific scores, they will show candidates' strengths and weaknesses in the exam, which is also a judgment of candidates' knowledge level.

If the candidates pass the CGFNS nursing examination and pass the TOEFL test within two years with a score of 540 or above, they will soon obtain the American nurse qualification certificate issued by CGFNS. The certificate is valid indefinitely.

If a candidate passes the CGFNS nursing exam, but the TOEFL score is unqualified or has not yet passed the exam, he must pass the TOEFL exam within 2 years to obtain the CGFNS certificate. If you fail to pass the TOEFL test within 2 years, candidates must re-take the CGFNS nursing test and start over.

9. How does 9.CGFNS evaluate and certify candidates?

Authentication is divided into three steps:

Identification of candidates' academic qualifications: mainly the identification of candidates' qualifications for nursing work in the original education country, such as nurse certificate, and the identification of candidates' academic diplomas. In any country in the world, CGFNS institutions require applicants to fill in their own information in advance as required and send it to CGFNS headquarters in Philadelphia, USA (the mailing time is three months before the exam), and its specialized personnel will conduct pre-examination. After passing the exam, they will issue an admission ticket to the candidates and allow them to take the exam, which is the first step in the certification process;

One-day exam;

After passing the exam, CGFNS also requires candidates to provide a TOEFL score of 540 or above within two years after passing the nursing exam as the third step of their certification process.

If all the candidates pass the above three requirements, they will get the CGFNS certificate issued by CGFNS organization, which is the basic recognition for candidates to go to the United States (including visas or immigrants) to take the American registered nurse examination.

10, what kind of China candidates can pass the preliminary examination?

(1) must be a registered nurse in China with a nurse certificate;

(2) Must have received nursing education recognized by the state for more than two years;

(3) Must have a high school education or above (including high school);

The above requirements are formulated for the China market, and American CGFNS institutions are very optimistic about the China market. Have a certain level of English

English proficiency candidates can log in to official website, a CGFNS college in http://www.cgfns.org/,, to find out the specific requirements for taking the CGFNS exam.

1 1. What preparations should candidates make before the exam?

(1) Pre-test training: distance training, face-to-face teaching, teaching CDs, counseling materials, etc.

(2) Training and strengthening nursing English;

(3) Analysis and understanding of examination questions over the years;

(4) TOEFL preparation;

(5) mock exam before the exam.

We suggest that candidates take relevant training before taking the CGFNS exam. Nursing education in China is different from that in the United States. It is particularly important to use nursing English accurately and deeply understand the differences between Chinese and foreign nursing cultures. Candidates can pass the CGFNS exam with more confidence only if they participate in the training provided by professional institutions before the exam.

12, how to apply for CGFNS exam?

Applicants can download and query the CGFNS application form and application manual on the official website of CGFNS http://www.cgfns.org/. organization, and the relevant procedures can be handled by the training company.

The following are the procedures that applicants should follow when filling out the application form.

(1) Get the application manual and application form from CGFNS headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA by letter, telephone or fax, or download the application manual and application form from the official website of CGFNS in http://www.cgfns.org/,, and then print it out for use.

(2) Fill in the forms I need to fill out in the application materials. Send the registration form, high school diploma, examination fee of $295 and photos to CGFNS, Philadelphia, USA.

Note: Senior high school diploma can be selected in one of the following three forms:

Copy of high school diploma+translation by translation company;

English certification letter written by attending high school+principal's signature and school seal (especially applicable to those who have attended high school but have no high school diploma);

Chinese certification letter written by senior high school+signature of principal+school seal+translation by translation company.

None of the above three forms need notarization by a notary office. Please refer to the CGFNS application manual for details.

(3) Send or hand over the form that needs to be filled out by the nursing school from which I graduated in the application materials to the school authorities, and ask them to fill it out according to the requirements on the form and then send it directly to CGFNS. If the nursing school does not provide specific services, you can fill in the form yourself, then ask the school to stamp it (to prevent mistakes, you can copy several blank forms in advance for later use), then put the form in an envelope with the name of the nursing school printed on it, stamp the official seal of the envelope and send it from the post office where the school is located.

★ Note: The contents of the form mainly include the courses that the applicant has studied in the nursing school, the theoretical class hours and practice days of each course (see the study schedule for details). While filling out the form, CGFNS encourages you to ask the school for a separate report card, but this is not necessary. It is best to fill in all the contents directly in English, otherwise you need to attach the translation of the translation company.

Send or submit the application materials in the form filled out by the management organization responsible for the registration and practicing certificate of nurses in China (such as the medical department of the local health bureau), let them fill it out, stamp it, and then send it directly to CGFNS in Philadelphia, USA. Part of this form is used to prove the basic information of the applicant when he was registered as a registered nurse for the first time (such as education level at that time, registration examination, whether he is a first-class general nurse, a second-class nurse, a single-subject nurse, etc.). ), and the other part is used to prove the applicant's current nurse professional certificate (what kind of nurse is currently, whether it has been revoked or suspended, etc.). If the form is not enough, you can use an official letter instead (the official letter must be signed and sealed by the official and sent directly to the United States). It is best to fill in all the contents directly in English, otherwise you need to translate a copy.

Company translator. This process does not require a copy of the nurse's card and a notarial certificate issued by the notary department.

(5) After receiving the applicant's application materials, CGFNS will first send back a CGFNS document number, and at the same time start to review and evaluate the applicant's situation. If the applicant meets the test requirements, he will soon receive the admission ticket for CGFNS test, which will indicate the specific test date and place.

(6) Candidates should arrive at the test center on time on the test date, and it is best to arrive at the examination room 30 minutes in advance to take the test with a stable attitude.

(Contact information of CGFNS:

Tel: (2 15) 349-8767

Address: Graduate Committee of Foreign Nursing School, Room 400, 3600 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Tel:19104-2651.

Telegraph: CGFNS, Philadelphia, USA

Telegraph: 402409 CGFNS PHA

Official website: http://www.cgfns.org/

The relationship between 13, NCLEX-RN and CGFNS

(1) Registered Nurse Licensing Examination

In order to unify the level of nurses in the United States, and to avoid the trouble of holding different license examinations in different States and renewing licenses among States, the National Council of State Nurses Committees (NCSBN) was jointly organized. Starting from 1987, the National Registered Nurse Qualification Examination (NCLEX-RN for short) was held uniformly. To obtain a registered nurse's license, the applicant must first apply to the local nursing bureau for the qualification of the license examination, and after examination and approval, register NCLEX-RN with the Joint Committee of the National Nurses' Bureau. Only after passing the exam can you get the registered nurse license issued by the state.

(2) NCLEX-RN examination structure

The topic of NCLEX-RN or NCLEX-CAT is four-choice multiple-choice questions in English. The number of questions depends on the candidates' on-the-spot performance. There are at least 75 questions and at most 265 questions. The examination time is 5 hours, and there are 10 minutes left after 2 hours. During the exam, the computer only displays one question at a time, and each question must be answered, otherwise the next question will not be displayed. Answered questions cannot be viewed or modified. The computer will give the following questions according to the quality of the candidates' answers. If the examinee answers correctly, the computer will increase the difficulty of the test questions; If the answer is wrong, the difficulty of the exam will be reduced. Test scores are determined by the difficulty of correct answers, not the number of correct answers. Therefore, when the computer judges the level of candidates (that is, qualified or unqualified) according to the difficulty and accuracy of candidates' answers, it will stop candidates' examinations. If you are not sure, candidates have to continue to answer questions until the computer can judge the degree of candidates. When the test time exceeds 5 hours (including pre-test practice and rest time between exams) or the candidates have completed all 265 questions, the test is over.

(3) the category of 3)nclex-rn questions

Safe and effective nursing environment (15-2 1%)

Health promotes and maintains human growth and health care (17-23%)

Social psychological integrity Social psychological integrity (8- 16%)

Physiological integrity Physiological integrity (46-54%)

(4) Test scores

After the exam, the computer center will not tell you the exam results immediately, but will send your results to the state nursing bureau immediately. The state nursing office will inform the candidates of the test results within two to three weeks. The examination adopts the qualified score line, and the specific examination results are not notified. If the candidate fails the exam, he can retake it, but it must be 9 1 days before he can retake it. The limit of the number of retakes is determined by the state nursing bureaus.

14, the development prospect of CGFNS in China.

For many years, there has been a shortage of nursing professionals in the United States, and CGFNS was established under this background to absorb and evaluate overseas nurses. CGFNS decided to set up a testing center in China, indicating that it has begun to pay attention to the China market. The data shows that there are about 2.4 million nurses in our country who are on-the-job or have professional qualifications, and a large number of nurses have no good jobs to choose from; Many nurses graduate from major nursing colleges or schools every year. Then, how to solve the work of these nurses in China will be a problem. There is a shortage of nurses in the United States, while many nurses in China have no jobs, which is a good match between supply and demand. At this time, CGFNS set the test center in Beijing, China, and put the opportunity in front of nurse China. The meaning is self-evident.

15. Significance of obtaining CGFNS certificate

(1) Obtaining CGFNS certificate can convince medical institutions and immigration authorities in the United States that candidates are basically capable of passing the NCLEX-RN exam and obtaining a local nurse license in the United States, so that candidates can obtain employment contracts of medical institutions in the United States before going abroad, and it is relatively easy for them to pass the examination of the US Immigration Bureau and Consulate and obtain a green card before going abroad. American immigration law stipulates that all foreign nurses who enter the United States to engage in nursing work, whether in the form of non-immigrant visas or professional immigrants, must first pass the so-called "American nurse qualification examination", that is, obtain the "nurse qualification certificate" issued by CGFNS. At the same time, nursing bureaus in most states in the United States require nurses who have received nursing education outside the United States to obtain a "nurse qualification certificate" issued by CGFNS before attending NCLEX-RN.

(2) Those who pass the CGFNS exam will have a high pass rate when they go to the United States to take the NCLEX-RN exam. According to the figures released by the Graduate Committee of American Foreign Nurses School, the one-time pass rate of foreign nurses with CGFNS certificate to take the NCLEX-RN exam reached 88% ~ 92%. However, overseas nurses without CGFNS certificate directly took the NCLEX-RN exam, and the passing rate was only a little over 50%. It is precisely because of this that medical institutions in the United States will sign work contracts with CGFNS certificate holders before they arrive in the United States, and provide them with economic guarantees, go through immigration procedures, and prepay air tickets to the United States.

(3) There is a serious shortage of nurses in many developed countries except the United States, such as Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. The requirements for recruiting foreign nurses in these countries are relatively relaxed compared with those in the United States. In other words, once you get the CGFNS certificate from the United States, it means that you have an internationally recognized first-class nurse qualification certificate, and the holder will be easily employed and recognized by hospitals and health care institutions all over the world.

(4) For domestic nurses, even if they don't go abroad, they are more likely to have a better development in China. For example, it is easier to work in a foreign-funded hospital, and it is easier to get opportunities to go abroad and get promoted.

What is a registered nurse?

RN is short for registered nurse. Its function begins with accepting patients, using various nursing methods, collecting patients' subjective and objective data, making preliminary nursing evaluation, analyzing the collected data, and putting forward correct nursing diagnosis and appropriate nursing plan. After that, lead professional nurse LVN and assistant nurse CAN to carry out nursing implementation. Finally, according to the implementation results, evaluation and correction are carried out at all stages of the nursing process to ensure the solution of patient care problems. Therefore, RN must be very familiar with the whole nursing process. At the same time, most hospitals in the United States adopt the open hospital system, that is, except for inpatients, most of them are brought into the hospital by attending doctors outside. After the patient was admitted to the hospital, the doctor was not in the hospital most of the time except for the initial treatment. All patients' problems must be solved by RN immediately or after discussion with the patient's attending doctor. Therefore, RN must have independent judgment ability, be able to make safe and correct decisions in different clinical situations, and be fluent in English, so as to communicate with doctors, patients and other staff without barriers and achieve the purpose of nursing patients.