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if you already have a degree in psychology my advice would be to become a registered nurse and specialize in mental health as you will have more career opportunities. Psychiatric nursing is not...

to my knowledge all provincial regulatory nursing organizations require that you be a registered nurse in your country of origin in order to apply for registration here in canada. if you are not...

i know the intention of the post was to indicate that rn's have a broad scope of practice in er's in canada. certainly the job of triage and other emergency nursing roles carries great...

You can have a dual license...however, you can never give up your obligation to work according to professional standards. So with dual license if you work as an LPN, you get paid as a LPN and you...

an rn is not held to a higher standard...they are held to the standards that are established for their profession. in my jurisdiction (which is british columbia canada) the standards are very...

that is my point...well not quite. they can be compared, but of course they are different because canada and the usa are different countries, with different cultures, and vastly different value...

well if the regulations that exist under legislation required public protection then they cannot do this. they can only determine if a person who applies for a license has met the standard to...

you and i know this but apparently nurses from other countries don't. i will reiterate my original comment that this is not in the mandate of professional regulation for public protection so i...

Thanks for the response... I am simply going by my own lived experience here in Canada. The regulatory bodies do not exist to make money, they exist under legislation to ensure that nurses who...

what does the economy have to do with it? there should be no influence on the licensing of nurses other than making sure they meet requirements that are in place for public protection. labour...

I am outraged at what you have described. If you have passed the CRNE and obtained a nursing license in BC this should be recognized in Alberta. If your husband is working there and has...

The Internationally Educated Nurse Assessment Center was put in place at Kwantlen Polytechnic University after the government awarded the contract to them, and in late 2008 some SEC's were being done...

If you have graduated as a nurse in the Philippines you should not have to go to school again. You should be able to apply for registration as a PN through the College of Nurses on Ontario. ...

WOW if this doesn't sum up the differences in culture between the US and Canada I don't know what does!

I am not sure why that should be considered a benefit. Hopefully you are not coming to work while you are under the influence anyway - no matter what country you work in. You see here in Canada...

No, charging premiums is not in defiance of the Canada Health Act. This tenet of the Canada Health Act does not say that health insurance is free. It says simply that the provincial insurance...

Silverdragon is right only the College of LPN's in the province you want to work in can make that decision but it is highly probable that if you have a degree from the Philippines then your...

No Fiona59 you are wrong, that is not a logical conclusion. One of the requirements for a registered nursing license is that you have graduated from a recognized school of registered nursing....

Welcome to Canada eh! The immigration cap for registered nurses under the skilled worker program was reached last December so no more new applications until June 2011. However, the cap for LPN ...

I get very discouraged when I see nurses writing that they cannot get a job. I went to the careers section of the Fraser Health Authority in BC. In total there were over 256 jobs for RN's...

No that is not necessarily the case. You probably have more education than is needed for LPN but your best bet is to contact the provincial college for RN's or LPN's and get more specifics. But...

here's the trouble... In Canada, a university degree requires 16 years of education (12 yrs of highschool and a another 4 yrs in university) If you do not have 16 years of education to...

Yes many agencies do provide private nursing services but that is quite different than private duty. In Canada to my knowledge, nurses ( Nurse practitioners excepted) do not have billing numbers and...

They are not obstacles they are standards. Canada has a high expectation of public accountability for public service. In the Canadian health care system this is even higher because of the risk to...

no there isn't! since you already have a degree the best alternative for you in my view is to purse an registered nurse license . this would be transferable to any province in canada and you...