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Hello I was just wondering if anyone is on the same boat as I am.

I was educated in Canada and took the CRNE and failed it. I am few points away from passing it. After few months NCLEX came to Canada and took the NCLEX with the thought of maybe I can wing it to pass it. It was a huge mistake !!! I studied with a friend who was also in the same situation as I am right now. Learned lots that the approach I did was way off on how to approach the questions !!!. We decided to study together and took Hurst Review and after our third try, she passed and I didn't. In Canada, we are only allowed to take 3 attempts and thats it. I have applied in Arizona, awaiting for my credentials to be evaluated, hoping that I will be allowed to site the NCLEX again with unlimited attempts.

Any thoughts, advices or anybody who have already exhaust their max attempts and going on the same process as I am.

Thanks

Specializes in PCU, M-S, ER, OPD, Dental nurse, etc..

That's great news then, yeah if you are licensed in your country of course you have to include that with the rest of your paper works if they are not asking awesome :up:

In my experience I did not submit my application for examination until all my documents are directly submitted and received by AZBN, as far as I remember they will send you emails for updates if you provided email when you applied. I used CGFNS for my CES report to be submitted to AZBN I say within 4-6 months, I think it didn't take too long for my papers to go through. I think it is also depending on how fast you respond to their request or how fast your school process papers for you. Best of luck, you are already doing something it wont be long you'll be scheduling your test soon. Oh btw you know you can sit for the actual nclex test in Canada right lol you don't have to travel to AZ to take the test unless you want to visit and/or Canada has different ruling about it.:yes:;) Good luck...

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Oh ok. IERF told me 4 weeks. They even only requested a faxed copy of my certificate diploma. My school only sent my course work hours and detailed description of the courses I have taken.

Yes, I am aware that we can take the exam in Canada and I don't need to go to Arizona. NCLEX - RN is coded for USA. NCLEX - RN1 coded for Canada

Are you already working in Arizona? How do you apply? Is it through an agency or directly to the health regional hospital websites?

Thanks

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Specializes in PCU, M-S, ER, OPD, Dental nurse, etc..

You can go through agency if you like, you can also apply directly in the hospital you like to work. It all depends on you, not yet still working in accounting lol, waiting for my license and finish some things up then I'm going for it. I some contact to where I am going to work soon, I hope :).

First, you have to concentrate on your exam and pass the test and then you can worry about the other things you need to do. You'll be fine, just make sure you got your priorities sorted out and focus on one thing at a time. God bless you.

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Thanks. Yes, I will have to focus on my nursing. I am a licensed PT too.

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Update.

I have to revisit Kaplan again now and will be scheduling my NCLEX anytime soon.

Good luck to all and don't lose hope.

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Good luck blackbee!

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Article from Toronto Sun

Stop letting our nurses down with American exam | News | Toronto Sun

After spending thousands of dollars to get degrees, new nursing graduates are finding they must hand over hundreds of dollars to a private U.S. company to take the admission to practice exam” that allows them to work in this province.

The new exam is being criticized for being inappropriate for Canadian nurses — in some cases it uses imperial measurements instead of metric to calculate medications — causing pass rates to plummet for new grads.

Introduced last year, the NCLEX exam, based in Chicago, replaced the national Canadian licensing examination in all jurisdictions except Quebec. It's the property of the U.S. National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), the organization made up of state nursing regulatory bodies for U.S. nurses.

Linda Silas, president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, says there's no transparency in the way the results are made public. She'd like to see a two-year transition period to ease into the new test.

While the first-time pass rate for Ontario students was a dismal 68%, NCLEX is reporting it much higher because it included results of student nurses who passed after multiple attempts.

It's not a question of low Canadian nursing standards. Our nurses are some of the best-trained in the world. It can't be coincidence that suddenly the standard of grads across the province has dropped. The exam was changed because the Canadian one was paper only and the U.S. one is electronic.

We've had valedictorians, we've had dean's list students fail the exam,” Silas told me.

It's costing Canadian students thousands of dollars to re-sit the exam. It costs $360 US every time they write it and they have to purchase preparation courses, which can run $300-$600 a piece, as well as online courses. If they fail three times in a row, they have to go back to restart their four-year nursing degree.

This is on top of the tuition they've paid to get a nursing degree and a nursing licence.

Silas says Canadian students here have collectively paid as much as $6 million to retake the exams since its inception. They can't work until they pass the test.

When the results started to come in, they were shocking in the reduction in the passing rate,” she said in an interview.

For student nurse Nicole Eves, failing the exam meant being out of work for seven months, which was difficult because she has a huge student debt to pay off.

She spent $1,200 to NCLEX on practice courses and other resources before she finally passed the exam. It's unfair, she says.

”We dreamed of this for so long. Instead, we are treated as guinea pigs. We have no voice and we have no choice; $2,360, six months, and a jar of tears later, I passed the NCLEX. I don't even feel excited, just relieved,” Eves said.

Health Minister Eric Hoskins says this is an important priority” for him and he's working with the College of Nurses on it.

This needs to be a nursing exam that reflects the reality in Canada and what Ontario nurses are expected to know and that's the foundation of my engagement of working on this to make sure that's the case,” he said.

Let's hope so. The kind of young people who go into nursing are those who want to dedicate their professional lives to caring for others in their time of need.

Let's not let them down.

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