Diploma nurse from Alberta wanting to go to BC

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Jul 19, 2007

There's a grandfather clause for nurses who have been working for years with a diploma. It's a lot easier if you're already working in Canada, as I think you are. The BScN thing is for entry to practice... so brand new nurses.

globalRN · Jul 30, 2007

The grandfather clause may be for BC nurses who are already working as RNs in BC.

At the moment, NPs in Alberta only need a bachelor degree while BC requires NPs

to have a masters degree....that was one of the issues discussed in the CARNA

review of TILMA....

That would leave me to think that currently one cannot just transfer over.

However, TILMA comes into effect fully in 2009 so if you are a RN

in AB you can work as a RN in BC without more paperwork or hurdles

Fiona59 · Jul 30, 2007

The NP's I know have way more than a BScN. Two have Phds and the rest have Masters.

Jan is correct.

EFAN · Jul 30, 2007

A friend of mine graduated from the accelerated program last year in alberta and found a job in BC with no problem.

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Jul 30, 2007

The accelerated program is a baccalaureate program for people who already have a university degree in something else, thereby fulfilling the liberal arts elective portion of the BScN. It isn't the same as a diploma program by any means. Graduates come out with a BScN, so are employable anywhere in Canada. And as Fiona59 said, NPs in Alberta MUST be Master's prepared at the very least. We have a large number of them where I work, and several of them are working on PhDs.

EFAN · Jul 30, 2007

The accelerated program is a baccalaureate program for people who already have a university degree in something else, thereby fulfilling the liberal arts elective portion of the BScN. It isn't the same as a diploma program by any means. Graduates come out with a BScN, so are employable anywhere in Canada. And as Fiona59 said, NPs in Alberta MUST be Master's prepared at the very least. We have a large number of them where I work, and several of them are working on PhDs.

Actually we graduated with a diploma. I graduated from the accelerated program at Grant MacEwan last year as well.

globalRN · Nov 25, 2007

currently, the minimum requirement to be a NP in alberta is a baccalaureate degree although there is agreement that that minimum will be changed to a masters degree.

To work in Capital Health or Caritas...the major employers of NPs in Alberta...a masters degree is required...that is why all the NPs you see in the hospitals are masters prepared or higher