anyone registering for SRNA or in Saskatchewan?

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please share details for registration as registered nurse..

any tips and how long do they process?

How is life in Regina, Saskatchewan?

Thanks guys for your help!:w00t:

Specializes in intensive care, recovery, anesthetics.

Just to ask generally, how much experience do you guys have???

You will need experience in an acute care setting, critical thinking skills etc.

Otherwise I doubt the employers will be interested.

5cats

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Specializes in OR/DR/RR, Surgical Unit.

I have two years experience as an OR nurse. Will that be enough? :)

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Specializes in intensive care, recovery, anesthetics.

Maybe, you know I posted this, because the experience here so far is not that great, unfortunatly. And the retraining time is way too long. I just hope for you the OR is not as different as the units you guys are working in your country, and that at least some of the equipment is similar. That would give you a better chance and an easier transition.

5cats

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To nursemich

Good thing you have a 2 years of OR experience and I think that you will have a good chance to get an employer also... just keep the faith burning. BTW I have 2 years and 3 months of OR experience as well and was offered to work in Regina Saskatchewan. Even though I don't have the eligibility yet my employer offered me a contract when they did have a recruitment drive here in Manila last January.

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Specializes in intensive care, recovery, anesthetics.

That was within the big recruitment drive as you said, not sure if this will be ongoing, since the experience so far is not good.

A good indicator for that as well is the lack of posts from the guys allready here. They all dropped off the board.

5cats

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To 5cats.

Please don't over generalized the situation your idea is only yours and not facts. Excuse me for the word "They all dropped off the board" how sure you are about it? Just visit http://www.poea.gov.ph and you'll see many of the filipino nurses working in Canada are sharing their stories there. Many of the Filipino nurses are known not only in USA Canada and UK but also around the globe. Don't you think why Canadian American and British employer continue to travel hundred of miles in the Philippines just to recruit Filipino nurses? Any idea why they continue choosing Filipino nurses? Just few questions that I think will make everyone reading this thread interesting.... Cheeer up 5cats... just expressing my thoughts...peace....

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Here we go again. Let's hope this thread doesn't turn the way many turned in 2007/08 with the "we're the best nurses in the world" rant.

I work in a province that had a huge recruitment drive. It brought nurses over but found out once a full credential assessment was completed that many RNs educated and with work experience in the Phillipines were not prepared to function as RNs here. They wound up working as LPNs AFTER an "introduction to Cdn. Nursing" course. Now over a year later, most are just finding their feet. Every unit in my hospital that has had an IEN has found roughly 1 in 3 to not to work out. Each hospital in my region has had more than two contracts terminated.

My province due to the experience and the financial situation has ceased recruiting in the Phillipines and elsewhere.

Perhaps if you read the boards and do a full search YOU will see Canada's experience with IENs and that it has not been a success.

5cats is correct. The most vocal of the poster who were coming to Canada to "save the hospitals" haven't been heard from again. It's one thing to brag about your success at home, it's another to face reality day after day at work.

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Specializes in OR/DR/RR, Surgical Unit.

Even if someone transferred to another unit, will definitely need adjustment.. It still depends on the person if he/she is equipped with right nursing knowledge, skills and attitude, thus difference in environment, peers and equipment will not be a problem. :)

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Even if someone transferred to another unit, will definitely need adjustment.. It still depends on the person if he/she is equipped with right nursing knowledge, skills and attitude, thus difference in environment, peers and equipment will not be a problem. :)

I agree that after orientation (which for locally educated nurses is usually under two weeks) it can take a couple of months to settle in and feel comfortable.

What 5cats and I am talking about are individuals who are taking a year to even come to basic levels expected by new graduates locally produced.

When I transferred units, I was given five orientation shifts with a "buddy" nurse and after that I was on my own. Basic skills are the same across the hospital region.

I've seen other posters talk about the "crab mentality" and if it means sticking to your compatriots, speaking your own language in front of patients and in the med and charting rooms in front of your coworkers, only supporting those of the same nationality in the workplace, we have had major problems with it. Our nursing unions have had to step in several times about the use of English in the workplace after complaints from Doctors and patients.

I know on my unit we've done our best to be welcoming, invites to all the BBQs, showers, get togethers (with maps, directions, etc) and we only have ever had one out of our four IENs attend (and it's been the same nurse every time, maybe the party animal in the crowd?) So, if your new co-workers invite you to something, show up even if you only stay ten minutes. It's appreciated.

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You've got the concept of "crab mentality" all wrong. :D:D

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Then provide us with the "correct" definition, pls & thx

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crab mentality is actually a negative trait of the Pinoys wherein like crabs, they would pull one another or those who they perceived to be "moving up" so that they would all stay in the same sorry situation.

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