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Nursing licenses in Canada are renewed annually. The registration fee is somewhere between $350 and $488.60 per year. The College of Nurses of Ontario fees are $122.66, but I believe that the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario is responsible for many of the functions of the regulatory bodies in other provinces regarding nursing practice, education, public collaboration and liaison with the Canadain Nurses Association. So to avail oneself of all the services available through the Colleges in all other provinces, nurses in Ontario need both CNO and RNAO memberships, at a net cost of $387.66. (My Ontario colleagues are free to correct me, since I'm interpreting and not absolutely sure I'm on the right road.) My Alberta practice permit cost $381.60 for the practice year ending September 30, 2008. I'm reimbursed $100 by my employer after working more than 685 hours in the current practice year. Nurses in Saskatchewan are reimbursed in full, as are those nurses covered by the Professional Institute of the Public Service and employed by the federal government.

But don't forget that the fees are a tax deductible expense...

From what I have seen there are many differences in the nursing system.All provinces have RNs and I believe they all have LPNs except for BC and Ontario, which have RPNs(Registered Practical Nurses),which is similiar to LPNs but I think the education is slightly different (correct me if I am wrong). Also some provinces call their Registered Phychiatric Nurses RPNs. Provinces such as BC and Ontario have eliminated the diploma RN programs and require a degree for initial licensure now. I am in Ontario and have seen RN jobs starting at $28, I am an RPN and my first job started at $23.27.

You can find a summary and comparison of wages and benefits province by province at this link:
http://www.nursesunion.mb.ca/pdf%20f...(12-17-07).pdf

In BC an LPN is an LPN. It is only Ontario that calls them RPNs. Each province educates slightly differently, BUT all graduates of a PN programme are required to write the Canadian PN exam. The exam requires that all graduates, regardless of their province of education to meet a minimum standard of education.

The title RPN is used for Reg. Psych. Nurses in BC, AB, Sask, and Manitoba.

Unionized nurses (most of us) in Canada do not get bonuses unless the the bonus is part of a contract negotiation. In Alberta we recently ratified a contract that gives each full time nurse a "market adjustment payment" of $750 twice a year (prorated for equivalent to full time for the part time nurses) to help with the skyrocketing cost of living here. Nurses who work for private business (doctors' offices, stand-alone surgical facilities, insurance companies) will get bonuses if their employer sees fit to provide them.

RNs don't work the classic 5 day week unless they work in a clinic, as a rule. Most of us work shift work and many of us work 12 hour shifts. Twenty 12 hour shifts over a six week period is full time and includes weekends, holidays and nights.

Did the chart I pointed you to say that grad nurses in Ontario are paid $28 an hour? Actually, graduate nurses (those who have graduated from nursing school but who are not yet licensed) in Ontario are paid whatever is negotiated at the local level. That means that each hospital or facility will decide their own pay rates for GNs. Nurses in their first year of licensure in Ontario will start at $26.80 (page 2 of the comparison) unless they've been given credit for hours worked in another jurisdiction (which involves obtaining documentary proof of those hours).

As I said, most nurses in Canada are unionized. Provincial union contracts are very detailed and explicit about rights, responsibilities, hours of work, wages and benefits and for the most part are the same for all nurses province wide. Anyone who chooses to work in a position that is not covered by the provincial agreement
negotiates all of that on their own. Pay and benefits are generally much lower than for union facilities. Doctors' offices may pay $10 less per hour and only offer basic benefits. Private agencies charge facilities much more than the facility pays their own nurses and then pays the agency nurses much less. When I worked for an agency (1995) they charged the hospital I often worked at as staff relief $25 an hour for my work then paid me $14, when at the time union nurses I was working side by side with were being paid $18 and getting shift differentials (more money for evenings, nights and weekends). I wasn't too happy with THAT arrangement!