Published Jul 25, 2022
Bumashes, MSN, APRN, NP
477 Posts
Hey All!
Looking ahead, I'm thinking my hubby and I may look to get our NP licenses transferred into Canada. I already know each province has its own specific process and what it does and does not accept. The question I am looking to figure out concerns the Offer/Acceptance of employment form/letter that is supposed to be submitted during the application process. We currently own our own practice in the US, so we were going to open our own clinic up there (self-pay), and so the employment offer letter would essentially be from ourselves. Is that even a thing up there? Where NPs can own their own clinic and thereby employ themselves? In some of the US, it isn't a thing, and that is why I ask. I know everyone has opinions on how a cash pay clinic would survive in a system with national healthcare coverage, but we aren't worried about that, and we would still keep our practice in the states as well, so it wouldn't even have to work out that well financially in Canada anyway. We just need to know if we could own our own business and thereby offer ourselves employment to get there. Because since we never plan on working for someone else ever again, there is no point seeking out moving to Canada if this would not be possible (though you have a lovely country we have visited many times). Thank y'all so much for any advice. I've just come up with half answered questions thus far, and the agencies I've written to have yet to write back.