Question about nursing licence

You graduate with a BScN, then you write a licensing exam.


Speaking as an LPN, we graduated as a Practical Nurse. Then we write a national exam which grants a license (hence the title). When employed prior to writing the exam you work as a Graduate Practical Nurse (GPN) under an interim license issued by the provincial regulating body. PN's get three tries at the national license exam, then its back to school for retraining. But on the other hand would you want a nurse that failed the license three times.

I've worked with Graduate Nurses which were BScN students who were working until the exam could be written or were awaiting results.

Yes, books are available for the exams and you get CD-ROMS with them to practice on the types of questions.

Why don't you check in with the UBC faculty of Nursing or better yet RNABC or whatever its called these days to get the straight facts?

You will have to write an exam to obtain licensure in Canada, but I would not worry about it at all at this point. You are unable to write the exam until you have actually graduated from nursing school and have been approved by the licensing board to be permitted to sit for the exam. You will find out all of the information that you will need from your school.

Good luck to you with your studies.