nclex passer = LPN

suzanne4, RN · Mar 30, 2008

No, you do not. The NCLEX exam is a licensure exam for the US only. Canada has their own set of licensing exams.

Since your question is related to immigration/licensure issues; it is being moved to the International Forum as was requested on the top of the Canadian Forum.

Anything having to do with being able to work in Canada from another country does not get placed in that forum, only on the International Forum.

Please be aware that unless you are already a landed immigrant for Canada, you cannot use the LPN for immigration purposes there, just like the US.

Suggest that you take the time to do some reading on the International Forum.

Canada is a completely separate country and what is used in one country is not used there, same way that their exam is not accepted in the US.

suzanne4, RN · Mar 30, 2008

Please also be aware that passing of the NCLEX-PN exam does not make one a licensed LPN/LVN in the US until an actual license number has been issued. Same thing applies to the RN exam, if one writes it for lets say CA, then they are not a US RN until they are in the US and have a SSN# and are ready to begin work.

borik1234 · Mar 30, 2008

thanks suzzane4,,,

suzanne4, RN · Mar 30, 2008

You are quite welcome.

purplehippo · Apr 1, 2008

Uhoh... I know some agencies can get NCLEX passers bypas the LPN exam. I know for a fact someone is coming mid April ans she will be working at Edmonton. She was recruited by Capital Health.

She would rather work as an LPN for now in Canada and not apply as an RN just to avoid all the complexities of being registered here. She said the agency was able to pull it off. She was lucky. And well, my uncle saw that issue in the internet. RN's recruited from the Philippines going here in Alberta are now directed to being LPN's instead of RN's. Some will take the LPN exam, others (like those NCLEX passers) won't. At least they will be working and earn money in time for all the SEC and courses they will have to take if they decide to be Canadian RN's...

Fiona59 · Apr 1, 2008

Your info is incorrect.

To work as a LPN you must obtain the license. CPNRE is not a cake walk and is offered three times a year.

It is true that some foreign trained RNs whose eduation does not meet Canadian standards have taken a education upgrade at Norquest, worked clinical hours in the hospitals and then write the national exam.

Until this exam is passed you hold no licence and may be allowed to work as a GPN. But this is highly doubtful as you won't even hold an interim practice permit from CLPNA. And it's the practice permit that holds the malpractice insurance coverage.

You just have to accept there is no quick or easy way to practice nursing in Alberta without a valid licence or set of credentials. Our nursing authorities are above board and uncorruptable.

This recruitment drive by Capital Health is not popular among staff as we are being asked to accept unproven nurses to work along side of us.

suzanne4, RN · Apr 1, 2008

Uhoh... I know some agencies can get NCLEX passers bypas the LPN exam. I know for a fact someone is coming mid April ans she will be working at Edmonton. She was recruited by Capital Health.
She would rather work as an LPN for now in Canada and not apply as an RN just to avoid all the complexities of being registered here. She said the agency was able to pull it off. She was lucky. And well, my uncle saw that issue in the internet. RN's recruited from the Philippines going here in Alberta are now directed to being LPN's instead of RN's. Some will take the LPN exam, others (like those NCLEX passers) won't. At least they will be working and earn money in time for all the SEC and courses they will have to take if they decide to be Canadian RN's...

Sorry, but there is nothing that is being pulled off. One must have a license to be able to work in the role of the LPN or the RN. Anything less and it is a bunch of garbage. They can tell you all that they want, but without a license, then the nurse is subject to being arrested for working without a license.

NCLEX exam is not accepted in Canada for licensure, even if they were to graduate from the US. And since a graduate of the US and an LPN, they are unable to work in Canada, and vice versa for the US; why in the world will they let someone where the training was different to work in that role?

I would be very, very careful with this. Wide open to be deported back home.

Agencies do not grant licensure or visas. What is being done is illegal and they need to be investigated. Simple as that.

They have been trying to bring RNs in as maids, and then they are trying this scam. And that is all that it is.

The belong in the hall of shame.:banghead::banghead: nothing more than that.

borik1234 · Apr 1, 2008

thanks fiona and suzzane for the info,,,that's why i ask that question because there is one agency in the phils misinforming those nurses work as LPN without taking CPNRE in Alberta,,that ridiculous,,,,

suzanne4, RN · Apr 1, 2008

That is our point as well. And the other thing that comes to mind, is if the nurse has not already passed the RN exam for Canada, then they cannot get a true visa for there, not as a landed immigrant, but actually being brought over as unskilled laborers which is in violation of Canadian immigration law the same way that it is for the US.

If the US will not provide a visa for the Canadian LPN, and vice versa; why in the world would Canada bring in LPNs from other countries? They will not.

This agency needs to be reported to the Canadian government and even more red flags go off when they say that the US NCLEX can be used for Canada. That tells you right there that they specialize in trying to do something illegal and nothing more.

Looks like they ran into problems with trying to bring in the same nurses that have the BSN as nurses, or so called nurses, so now they are on to the next scam. And that is all that it is.

Glad that you are realizing it.

suzanne4, RN · Apr 1, 2008

Without an actual Canadian license in hand, one is practising illegally and subject to a jail term. But that is what needs to be done to these crooks that want the nurse to work illegally or in a role that they should not be placed in.

They are not doing anyone any favors. They are purely disgusting and nothing more than that.

purplehippo · Apr 1, 2008

I totally understand. It is actually unfair for agancies to do that. But well, my friend is coming mid April. She is an NCLEX passer and she is coming to work as an LPN in Edmonton. I told her about still needing to write the LPN exam. Her exact words words were, "Yeah, those RN's who are not NCLEX PASSERS ARE writing it, but the agency pulled some strings for NCLEX PASSERS like me can go ahead and work as LPN.

She really said, that the agency was able to bypass the LPN exam for NCLEX passers like them. You can just ask her when she comes and works in April. She will even be placed in the ICU, imagine...

And, her intention of working as LPN and not as RN... like the other NCLEX passers are doing.. just buying some time until US opens for recruitment again.. or for her papers to move...She has no intention to stay here in Canada and apply as RN here... She should not come in the first place!