Re: A Little Advice Please!!!!
Most provinces will pay for skills and experience, but not without proof. If you were to provide them with a notarized or official letter from each of the places you have worked as a nurse documenting the number of hours you worked for them as a nurse, they would be taken into consideration. For example, when I moved to Alberta from another province, I obtained a letter from the human resources departments of each of the hospitals I had worked for over the preceeding 8 years. The total number of hours I had documentation for amounted to 5 1/2 years' equivalent to full time (I worked 70% of full time for those 8 years), which placed me on the 6th step of Alberta's 9 step scale. I also worked as an agency nurse for 7 months but the agency had closed and I was unable to provide proof of those hours, so they didn't count.
For tips on passing the CRNE, you can look at the related threads on this forum. There are a bunch of them. Find out as much as you can about how health care is delivered in Canada, how Canada educates nurses, and what internet resources there are related to health care in Canada. That will go a long way toward helping you pass.
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