Nursing and healthcare careers in the U.S.
You’re already a nurse. Know what comes next.
Practising in the United States means a long sequence of decisions — which programme, which prerequisites, which board, which exam — in an order nobody explains. Ovana helps you move through what comes next, one checked fact at a time.
Not sure? Either door works.
Most of what stops a nurse abroad isn’t ability. It’s not knowing what comes next.
Ovana doesn’t promise you a licence or a job — nobody honestly can. It tells you what a source actually says, when it was checked, and what still needs confirming. Then it helps you do the next thing.
Ovana products
Prepare for the exam
Ovana NCLEX
Live, instructor-led NCLEX-RN preparation taught from Nairobi, in small cohorts that start and finish together. Not a video library — an instructor who knows your name.
- Taught live, in a cohort that moves together
- A coordinator who keeps your paperwork moving
- Built for nurses sitting the exam in Nairobi
Understand your U.S. education path
Ovana Path
Explore U.S. nursing and healthcare programmes against your current education, prerequisites, location, goal and budget — and see what it would actually take to get from where you are to the credential you want.
- Programmes that fit the education you already have
- Prerequisites, cost, length and format, side by side
- Missing requirements and licensure risks, before you apply
The crossing
Five stages between your training and your first shift.
Every nurse who makes this crossing passes through the same five stages. Ovana builds the tools for two of them today — and tells you the truth about the rest.
Plan
Work out which routes are genuinely open to you, and in what order.
Ovana PathPrepare
Get ready for the NCLEX-RN with a live instructor and a cohort.
Ovana NCLEXPass
Sit the exam. Nairobi is one of Africa's NCLEX test centres.
Licence
Apply to a state board and satisfy what that particular board asks.
Work
Find an employer, and the visa route that goes with the job.
Two down. We’ll say so plainly when there are more.
Why trust any of this
We show our working.
Anyone can tell you what to do. Ovana tells you where the answer came from and when somebody last checked — so you can weigh it yourself, and so you know which parts are still guesses.
A claim without a source is just a rumour in a nicer font.
Verified means authoritative
A claim counts as verified only when an authoritative source says it about that exact school, programme or person — with the date it was checked.
Sources are cited and dated
Programme facts trace to federal and state sources — IPEDS, accreditation records, state board programme lists — and carry the date they were checked.
Honest about limits
Where Ovana can only show published or unconfirmed information, it says so plainly rather than dressing a guess as a fact.
Where we are
Built in Nairobi, for nurses going anywhere.
Nairobi is one of only two NCLEX test centres on the African continent. Ovana was built here, by people who have made this crossing and know which steps actually bite.
Your Ovana account
Pick up where you left off.
Your Ovana account saves your Ovana Path cases, so you can come back to them any time. Ovana NCLEX classes have their own separate sign-in.