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Hi all

For the nurses who have moved from the UK to Canada on this forum, what have been your impressions on the canadian health system as compared to the NHS. Do you thinK that the NHS is more organised or not and is how we nurse in UK better or not. Im psyche trained (project 2000) RMN working in AB.

Just curious:nurse:

I rang a the HR department at The Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton and they said that the best person to speak to was Geneva Health in London as it would be they who would recruit me.

If I can do it myself I will. God knows you cannot depend on anyone else to do stuff for you.

I fully intend to apply for a job once I finish training, as both my wife and I have agreed that the sooner we get to Canada, the better. This is mainly because we have two young sons who we wish to benefit from living over there.

As I will need to do Paediatric and Obs/Gyn work to get my full licence, do you have any idea what these rotations cost and how long they take?

Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

I am not sure on costs, can you not try and arrange with the university to get some hours both clinical and theory in all areas. May be easier

It depends on how quickly I emigrate after I qualify. If we hang about for a year afterwards I will be able to get some time in both disciplines. If not I will have to gain experience in Canada.

Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Once you have completed training you are still looking at approx 8-12 months to move as you need to apply to the province first and they need to decide on giving you a temp license or if you need to make courses up. Unfortunately it needs to be both theory and practical and just work experience in that area may not be enough

Well at least I am at the beginning of my education and still have nearly four years to get through before any of this has to take place.

In the mean time this forum is great and I intend to make the most of it.

Thanks for all your help, I'm sure I'll be in touch.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.

Britmale29, it would be so much better for you to get your peds, OB and mental health stuff done before you apply to CARNA. The assessment is long and costly, the courses are an entire semester long and tuition could run into the thousands of dollars. (Current interntaional sutdent tuition is $343.60 per credit hour, and between OB and peds, there are 14 credit hours, with another 7 for mental health if you were to need that one too.) There are a few nurses who post here regularly who are going through the Substantively Equivalent Competency process right now and are very unhappy with having to do so. If you can avoid it, I'd recommend that route!

Now a little bit about Geneva and recruiting. The health regions here use a locally-based agency to do the initial screening and act as liaison between applicant and employer in order to simplify things. The local agency will have a better knowledge of the different schools, the curricula, the methods of evaluating students and so on, and will have better information about the ins and outs of immigration. So in that sense, you would be "recruited" by Geneva. But as Silverdragon2 says, a lot of the legwork isn't that onerous and you could do it yourself. Meantime, you could be asking many ??s of Geneva to help you prepare for the smoothest possible transition.

I will be speaking to my course admissions officer prior to starting my diploma so I will cross that bridge when I come to it.

Specializes in med/surg.

Yup looks like you'll have to pull in those grades!! All the best!

Hi everyone

Im a UK trained RGN with 3 years experience and am interested in relocating to Canada. My training was general adult but it did not cover the areas of psych, obs and paeds. Is Canada like the USA in that you must have practical and theory hours in all of these areas before you can even think about applying? I had been interested in relocating to the US aswell, but found it virtually impossible to find a way to make up the short hours. Does Canada pose the same problems?

For a career that you can "do anywhere in the world" I find I am coming up against a whole load of red tape, legal mumbo jumbo, expense and hassle!!:banghead: Please tell me its not just me!!! Or is there an easier route to either the US or Canada which i am missing??!!

Many thanks

Jess xx:heartbeat

Specializes in intensive care, recovery, anesthetics.

You will have to make up those hours to meet canadian standard, hard work but not impossible. As far as I'm aware practically all provinces offer programs that will enable you to do this. Will cost a bunch of money of course and time and hard work.

What you will have to do is decide in which province you want to work. Then apply so they can assess your education and see what they say. Do you really lack all 3 areas in theory and practice ?? Or just practice?

5cats

Specializes in med/surg.

It's an issue - you're not really an RGN if you didn't cover paeds, maternity or psyche in your training - RGN (Registered general Nurse) was the title we were given after they ditched the SRN (State Registered Nurse) & our training did cover all areas, so was indeed generalised nursing.

The new UK RN1 (or have they now changed it again to RNA like they were going to?) is adult branch nursing & the training is often restricted to not include paeds, maternity or psyche in any real amounts. I think it was a cynical move by the NMC to make it harder for UK nurses to go abroad!!

It's not impossible to make up those hours but it's hard work & costs money so most people will probably end up not bothering - which suits the NMC just fine!!

Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

You may even be able to sort the hours here in Canada, maybe something to look into with your province

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