Mercan Recruit - Canada

After reading this thread I'm quite upset about all those wrong information going around. Just some info for Saskatchewan:
Every applicant will be assesed individually by SRNA. If they find that your education is lacking then you will have to do a SEC. They use the same SEC that Alberta is using.
I'm not sure if a Nurse whose education is declared short of one or more areas in Alberta would succeed in Saskatchewan (or elsewhere). Might be might not.
Mistakes do happen unfortunatly and apparantly Alberta (Capital Health) made a big one when they decided to hire Nurses without having assessed their education first. Since this information is quite public, be asured that other provinces will try hard not to to repeat this one.

Just to say please try to get proper information first hand. There's a lot of hearsay around what is probably not true. Even with beeing educated in the same nursing school/university/college just a different clinical might make a difference, and plus sometimes how truthful people are. Just to remind, if your eduaction/experience is lacking and you try to cheat a bit, you might end up struggling very hard to fit into a new system, because they expect what you stated before. For instance if you say you have experience be clear what exactly you've done. There are huge differences in countries and your range of practice, even if it's called the same, might be completly different what will be expected from you. So SEC can be your chance to get your education to the level you will need.

5cats

From what I have read Canada has been very generous with their time and resources.

For example the nurses who were not qualified to work as RNs it would have easier to put them back on the plane. Instead they thought outside the box and allowed them to take the LPN exam ( only this groups was eligible).

The nurses in the SK many of them came last year and have not passed the CRNE but are still allowed to work with a limited license. That too is very generous in the US you would be let go and if you were lucky could stay as a Nursing Assistant.

It seems if you are not initially honest and do not accurately tell your nursing experience the powers that be will see that you are "faking it" . Not only does this effect patient safety but were is your personal honor? I am assuming that you are planning on staying in Canada, if you lied what do you think is going to happen when you apply for a promotion?

5cats thanks for the post.

Has anyone applied to work in Saskatchewan, Canada as a registered nurse through the skilled worker visa program. I want to start the process to work in Canada. I am a registered nurse in India. Can anyone who has gone through this process let me know how it went. I have already applied to srna. I have done the online application and have to send in the required documents as of the moment but am very confused on my how to go about the visa procedures.
thank you
kim.

Have you read the instructions on the CIC website? I think you will need to wait for SRNA to respond and eligibility before you can progress further

I would make sure you are eligible for CRNE and have a chance of finding a job. Otherwise you will struggle, job situation here is poorly and new IEN applicants have no chance right now of getting a job. Exception might be if you want to work up north, but without experience in the canadian healthcare system I would not recommend that straight away.
Why Saskatchewan?

5cats

Hi! I am an RN here in the Philippines since 2007 and last year, I got into this Resident Care Attendant program in Sprott-Shaw Community College-Manila Campus because they said its going to be easier for us to get there thru this program. Do you have an idea about this? I mean going there not as an RN or an LPN but as an RCA?

Why did you not look into it yourself?? Until recently it was relatively easy to go to Canada as a RN and actually have a job. So at the time you got that advise it was a very poor one, and actually a lie. RN's were in the short occupation list and high in demand.

The big question is, why would a RN switch to a poor paid job at all? Just to come to a foreign country? And then? You won't have any recent experience anymore as a RN so poorer chances of grabbing a job in your original profession, plus when you come as a caregiver, your visa doesn't allow to do anything else, so why would you even consider that route??

5cats

i know..its such a stupid, stupid decision..i wasted 6 months on that program and paid a big amount of money. I believed too much of their sales talk. I researched the school, and it really exists in Canada. So as of now, I have an international diploma but then they're not giving us a clear picture of where we're going. I believed them too much because the Manila Campus is located in one of the prestigious universities in Manila. I was told that we'll just have to work as an RCA for 10 months then can take the CRNE to be able to work as an RN in canada. If I knew earlier that we can go to canada without having to go thru this program, then I should just have started working in the hospital to gain experience. Now they're telling us that the LMOs available are for nursing instructors and that we qualify for that position since we're RNs and RCAs at the same time. Do you think this is true? Do you think the course that I took would help me in my nursing career path to Canada?

There is NO WAY you'd be employed as a Nursing Instructor by any Canadian College or University. You have to have a Masters and recent hospital experience.

You have almost no experience how can you be an instructor?
For here Fiona is absolutely right, without having worked here and knowing the system No WAY.

5cats