NNAS experience?

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Does anybody have any experience with NNAS? So far, I've read the site but it would be great to hear from people who have gone through the process :)

Hey guys,

I'm in process of assembling all the paperwork for NNAS. I am a BSN educated and employed in California trying to apply for British Columbia. I currently work part-time in the hospital and have accumulated 2800 hours over the last 3 years. I wonder if it's worth the hassle to list my previous employer from 4 years ago where I was employed full-time and which was more of a clinic job. Has anybody heard how NNAS look at employer's form? How may work hours do they want? Or do they just need us to work in RN capacity in the last 3 years or be out of school in the last 3 years? I just so don't want to waste my time on this. I have 4 schools to get syllabi from.

Include absolutely everything. Do not leave anything out. NNAS only assesses your nursing education, not your work experience. HOWEVER, they forward everything you submit to the provincial licensing body so it's important to have it all there from the beginning. It will cause you less hassle later, trust me!

Recently many US educated nurses have been receiving "comparable". NNAS changed their tune after so many pointed out how ridiculous it was that US schools that were previously OK'd in Canada were no longer comparable according to the assessment (some US educated people were getting like 12% comparable etc, it was insane). So I imagine you will get lucky and not have to go through the hell that many went through. Please save yourself stress and get all of the documents sent in to NNAS from the beginning.

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...,So if anyone here can assist me with some ideas on how to go about this to get my report completed ASAP,I will be grateful.Thanks!

This won't help you get the Advisory Report any quicker, but I think it's important to notify James Mandel at Office of the Fairness Commissioner in Ontario about this. These processes are supposed to be fair, objective and timely. the more who complain, the better.

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Has anyone applied to the province of New Brunswick? I have applied there and am waiting for my advisory report from NNAS before I go ahead to the NANB. Was wondering if anyone could share their experience with NANB?

My background:

I have an associate's degree in nursing from New York and am currently finishing my bachelor's. I passed the NCLEX February 2017 and have also been working as an RN for about 8 months

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Hi,

I am currently applying for the NCLEX-RN for Prince Edward Island through ARNPEI. I had already gone through the Competency Assessment and completed IEN RN Bridging Program in 2013. I had to take 5 courses in total. I took the CRNE twice and failed. I felt very discouraged to take it the 3rd time and took a break from it.

I tried re-applying in 2016 and was advised by ARNPEI to go through NNAS as my previous application had already expired. I had just completed my NNAS process and got my advisory report which was 'Somewhat Comparable'. After going to ARNPEI to apply for the exam they are now telling me that I will have to go through the IEN RN Bridging program again but will have to complete all the subjects (10 courses along with completion of at least 1125 clinical hours). They said the reason was that I was 5 years from when I finished my IEN RN Bridging Program and that this is no longer applicable.

I went through the ARNPEI website and the application process states as follows:

"ARNPEI requires applicants to have worked 1125 hours as a registered nurse over the last 5 years. Alternatively, if you are a graduate of a baccalaureate nursing education program (or an IEN bridging program) within the last 5 years, you are also eligible to apply."

(Take note that I finished my IEN RN Bridging Program in October 2013, so I technically SHOULD still have 8 months before it reaches 5 years)

I feel this is not fair as I have went through the Bridging Program before and should not have to take all 10 courses.

I'm wondering if anyone can help me with this or have had a similar experience.

Thank you!

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Hi all,

I'm and Adult NP practicing RN since 2009, ARNP since 2014. I'm applying through NNAS to get licensed in Alberta

ive been combing these threads looking for the advice on how to speed things along. How do folks recommend getting nursing boards and schools to send the documents? Do you pay postage or for couriers somehow?

What is the best approach with nursing boards? I'm licensed in CA and FL?

im sending it all but do they look at my MSN schooling? I completed a postbac Accelerated BSN but they told me they don't need to see my BA or outside prereqs. Is that right?

Thanks!

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Hi all,

I'm and Adult NP practicing RN since 2009, ARNP since 2014. I'm applying through NNAS to get licensed in Alberta

ive been combing these threads looking for the advice on how to speed things along. How do folks recommend getting nursing boards and schools to send the documents? Do you pay postage or for couriers somehow?

What is the best approach with nursing boards? I'm licensed in CA and FL?

im sending it all but do they look at my MSN schooling? I completed a postbac accelerated BSN but they told me they don't need to see my BA or outside prereqs. Is that right?

Thanks!

There is no way to accelerate the process. It's slow and only getting worse. Schools usually ask you to pay postage, yes.

As for NNAS, send EVERYTHING. Do not listen to them when they say they don't need certain aspects of your education. You will get told something different by different customer service agents but at the end of the day if you do not include something, then get a bad result, the customer service agent who said it's unnecessary is not there to back you up. Include everything and they will just ignore the things they don't need. But, they forward your entire file on to the nursing licensing body in Alberta. So, you will want them to see everything you have as far as nursing education or other education in a health care field. Take my word for it. I learned the hard way.

You are otherwise lucky that you are going through this process now and not 1 or 2 years ago. At that time, US educated nurses were "non-comparable" according to NNAS (every applicant was deemed 'non-comparable', including from UK and AUS) and we had to do OSCE etc. It was insane.

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That's what I figured. I did an Accelerated BSN and despite their reassurances I worried without my prior BA they'd reject it. The hardest part is reaching the boards of nursing so far just to see how they want it. I'm still nervous the schools and BONs won't follow through and it'll be left in limbo but we'll see. Thanks!

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I also did a 2nd degree Accelerated BSN and I sent ALL of my transcripts, to cover my bases. I would think that the state BONs would be responsive about forwarding licensing verification, since that's something they have to do every day. I had to send VA and DC and one wanted a check payment while I think the other accepted electronic payment. You have to trust that they send it and it sucks not being in control but that's just the way it is.

For my nursing school records I was fortunate that I was local and could go speak with the dean of nursing in person. She put everything on a flash drive and I brought in a pre-paid fedex envelope to put everything in. That said, make sure things you mail from your school/employer have their return address on them, because if it looks like it was sent from you they will not trust it (even though they put their contact information for verification). My poor manager had to send the form with hours worked twice because I made that mistake.

And make copies of ALL of the forms because they tried to tell me the nursing school didn't tick a box on the form and we're going to reject it, but I had a copy of the form and it WAS checked. This process is crap, inconsistent, and totally not transparent. It took me almost 9 months to get my report. Silver lining was that after that it was super quick to get my BC license, pretty much just a matter of sending the $$. Good luck!

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Efg1990,

Are they asking you to do the IEN bridge again because of the hours (vs the 5 year thing)? Also, I'm on the west coast so it could be totally different (another problem with the system), but here they have an assessment that IENs who are pegged for the bridge program take to basically show which modules and/or clinical areas you have to do. I'm sorry I don't know much more than that as I didn't take it, but it sounds like the college in PEI could be a little more clear with you. ������

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The NNAS has a Facebook page where you can give feedback of the "service" you have received and you can give between 1 and 5 stars indicating how good think they are doing. I have put in my review as I feel this is one of the ways I can give feedback and create some heat that hopefully will lead to a better service.

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The NNAS has a Facebook page where you can give feedback of the "service" you have received and you can give between 1 and 5 stars indicating how good think they are doing. I have put in my review as I feel this is one of the ways I can give feedback and create some heat that hopefully will lead to a better service.

Sadly NNAS doesn't care what anyone thinks. And they don't have to, because regulatory bodies, like CNO in Ontario as well as the Office of the Fairness Commissioner let them run rampant, with no real oversight. Just high level fake oversight to make it look like there is some oversight. It's such a shame, the whole thing. Their FB page is largely inactive. They don't use it anymore (although still good that you posted your feedback, for others to read). They wouldn't respond to my request for information on how they conducted their client satisfaction survey. The just outright refused and said they dont have to answer. Thing is, their client satisfaction survey only goes out to people after they paid (so haven't actually been through the whole process yet) or those who got 'comparable'. It's a scam really.

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Specializes in NICU.

Long thread! Got through most of it, but had a couple of questions if anyone knew the answers...

1. Anyone applied while practicing as a NP? Not sure how the recent nursing experience would work if it's been several years since I practiced as a RN, if I would be eligible.

2. If you get "comparable" on your assessment and then get your province license, are you then years later able to get other province licenses on the basis of your first province license or do you have to start all over again?

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