Awaiting SEC Assessment

[Dewaxyy]

Hello,

This is my first time thread setting and my enquiry is in regards to the SEC assessment to Provisional accreditation/Licensing' duration.

I am international Educated Nurse currently in the process of registering as an RN in BC,Canada.I finaly received acknowledgement of the current stage,therefore inviting me to come over(from the UK), to do the SEC assessment. Now! i haven't an issue with that at all. My issue/enquiry is:

1) Following the assessment and results sent to the Nursing Board (CRNBC), how long would it usually take for the board to advise you eligibility to take the board exams/provisional licensce?

Also i am currently working as an IT Project manager and Business change manager in the Healthcare IT industry(UK), i would very much like to bring my skills with me though i never formally trained in University in Computers and all i know i have basically thought myself, though i took a professional Project management course-Prince 2(Government accreditted in the UK). I am now Certified to work as a project manager. My question is:

2) What are the chances of me getting a job within the Healthcare IT industry in BC,Canada?

Any advice from you good people, would be very much appreciated.

Thank you.

[NotReady4PrimeTime, RN]

To answer your first question, there's no real way to know how long it will take. There have been posters here whose timeline was REALLY long, months after their SEC they were still waiting. Others had a much shorter wait. It depends on so many factors: how many assessments they have pending, how many files there are ahead of yours to complete and submit, what else is going on in the faculty at Kwantlen and how quickly they get your results to CRNBC... you get the idea. For example, we're heading into the holiday season so their offices (both Kwantlen and CRNBC) will most likely be closed from the 23rd until January 4th, so there goes seven work days out the window and everything will back up proportionately.

As for your second question, that's not any easier to answer. I can tell you that at my hospital the IT personnel are all required to be university educated. But I found a posting on our job board for an informatics consultant that you might be qualified for. When we moved to an electronic charting package from paper charting, three of our critical care nurses with a special interest in informatics were seconded to the project without specialized certifications. I guess I'd call that a "maybe".