Becoming a Nurse

[BRITMALE79]

I am 30 years old and have just applied for a prerequisite course through Open University here in the UK so that I can start University in 2011 to start my Nursing Degree.

I am married with two sons and my wife is either going to become a Paramedic or failing that she will follow me into Nursing.

I am aware that I will need to have my degree assessed against the Canadian equivalent and need to sit and pass the CRNE.

What other hurdles (aside form the obvious immigration paperwork, visas etc) stand in our way.

We would love to move to Toronto so if there are any nurses on here from that area I would love your feedback on good neighbourhoods for families and good Hospitals.

This is the very start of my research so no doubt i will post regularly especially during my stint at Uni.

I don't know if this bears any relevance to anything but my wife and I are both training to be Combat Medical Technicians in the Territorial Army.

Does this put is any better position when it comes to finally applying for immigration/employment?

Many thanks.

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

Hi and welcome

I too was a CMT and I don't think it will make any difference in your application for immigration.

What you need to be aware of is UK training is specialised and Canadian training is general so you need to make sure with your university that you get both clinical and theory hours in mental Health, Paeds, Obstetrics as well as Adult for you to meet Canadian requirements.

A lot can happen in the years waiting, you state you don't plan until 2011 and then have 3 years of training ahead of you, so I would probably worry about stuff once you have completed your training.

[BRITMALE79]

Thanks for the advice SD.

I have a few years of training ahead of me as you say, so I will start focussing a bit more once i am a bit closer to moving.

I am sure I will be in touch.