How long will it take to receive elgibility in Ontario?

Moved to the International forum as per the red banner

It will take as long as it takes. Do you have a local license?

The granting of PN permit to Phillipino BScNs was a ONE TIME only deal in the province of Alberta. It was a "face covering" measure for the government who recruited a group of BScNs only to discover that their education was the equivalent of a locally trained PN. It has not been a great success.


Cannot see other provinces going this route.

If you have a BSN why are you looking for a PN license? That's very confusing to me.

Fiona59 was correct. Alberta health regions initially recruited a group of BSNs from the Philippines and did not assess their education and experience until after the health regions had spent a huge sum of money and the nurses had arrived in Canada already. At that point in time they had to "fix" the issue and save face so they struck an agreement with the College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Alberta to allow these nurses to work as grad LPNs until they could write their LPN exam. There is an assessment (similar to the SEC that CARNA uses) done with candidates that includes a clinical practicum and then any remediation needed is listed for each individual before they are permitted to write the CRPNE. There is no guarantee whatsoever that the remediation (bridging) would be a single semester since each case is determined on an individual basis. http://www.clpna.com/Applicants/Inte...5/Default.aspx

The success of this experiment has been less than satisfactory and a number of people involved in it have had their positions terminated due to unsuitability. I know this from discussions with management at one of the acute care facilities that absorbed a group of them.

There is nothing on either the CARNA or CLPNA websites that suggests that nurses who have passed the NCLEX are exempted from anything. While it is possible to obtain LPN licensure with a BSN from another country in Alberta, there is nothing on the CNO or the RPNAO websites that suggests that would be true in Ontario. And Ontario is laying off nurses at the moment or not filling vacancies.

To add further fuel to the fire the nurses that were permitted to practice as PNs in Alberta were all EXPERIENCED RNs. Yet, there skills/education were only determined to be that of a PN educated in Alberta.

With no actual hospital experience, you would be at a greater disadvantage than those who were granted this waiver.

"It will take 15 weeks at the most" says CNO.

That 15 weeks is strictly to determine your eligibility to write the exam. The deadline for applying to write is about 90 days before the exam date, and the exam is only written three times a year: February, June and October.