changing provinces

[mach1]

my wife just passed her CPNRE exam for rpn. we moved here from alberta were she did her schooling. she registered with the cno and they said it would take 4 weekes to see if her schooling would be the same here in ontario..they approved it,after 5 weeks of waiting.then she wrote on sept 14th and just got her passing letter. now she must get her markes sent to ontario and provide them with a marriage certificate and to get her license they said it could take up to 4 weeks..

is this correct or is their a fast prosses. her friend moved to ontario also and doesnt have to go what we are going through..

4 more weeks is bs but what can we do???

thanks

[NotReady4PrimeTime, RN]

You're talking about a bureaucracy. There is no faster way. They're a monopoly and they'll take as long as they want to get back to you. You must have gotten married while she was in school for them to want a marriage certificate. That's their proof that she is who she says she is now that her last name has changed. Her marks shouldn't matter now that she's been given eligibility to write the exam and has passed it. BUT... she will have to register in Alberta before Ontario will register her.

[mach1]

hi. thanks for the response but we were married 10 years ago plus she was registered in alberta and they need her to spend 27.00 to get alberta to send her marks to ontario..what i dont get is why her friend that did the same thing doesn have this much trouble.dont get why she wrote here in sudbury ontario and had her marks sent to our old address in alberta when 3 times gave the cno the correct address.. frustrating

[NotReady4PrimeTime, RN]

Then it's purely about volume. Ontario is the only province where registered nurses and licenced/registered practical nurses are regulated by a single entity, CNO. There are about 4 times as many regulated nurses in Ontario as there are in Alberta and nearly a quarter of Ontario's regulated nurses are practical nurses. In other words, Ontario has almost as many practical nurses as Alberta has both registered AND practical nurses. CLPNA regulates about 5% of the nurses that CNO regulates. Do the math and you'll get an idea of how one application is really insignificant in the big picture.

I don't think the $27.00 is for her MARKS, but rather verification of her registration. I don't understand why, if she was already registered in Alberta she should have to write the CPNRE in Ontario. It's a national exam and she wouldn't have been registered in Alberta without passing it first. There's something missing in this scenario.

[indyanprincess]

I agree with janfrn. There must be some information that you are not providing us. I just did the opposite and got my registration in Alberta as I am moving there from Ontario. I didnt have to rewrite the CPNRE, just get a verification of registration from the CNO, transcripts and confirmation of my courses from the school that I went to, and I also had to get some paperwork filled out from my employer confirming my nursing skills. But I definetly did not have to rewrite.

And YES I had to pay money to the CNO as well as to my school to get the paperwork completed and mailed to the CLPNA.

[loriangel14, RN]

If your wife is having issue then why are YOU posting on here? Can she not speak for her self? Just asking.....