Nursing in Canada

Silverdragon102, BSN · Mar 6, 2008

How many years experience as a registered nurse do you have to have before you can apply to work in Canada? I am newly qualified and have a Bachelor Degree in Adult Nursing. I am British and English is my first language.

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Moved to the International forum for more appropriate responces.

You apply to a province and they determine whether you meet requirements, be aware you maybe short of hours in certain areas due to the makeup of UK training. Depends on the province to whether they require experience and should be mentioned on their website. Where abouts in Canada are you looking at?

suzanne4, RN · Mar 7, 2008

You may need to make up hours if you did not have both clinical and theory in maternal and peds in your program. Those two areas are also required before they will permit you to write the licensing exam for Canada, same as the US.

RGN1 · Mar 7, 2008

Almost - well close enough - on this topic - has anyone been approved for USA but refused by Canada?

I'm awaiting confirmation from Alberta on my nursing credentials - I had no problems getting approval from the USA - I have N-CLEX, VisaScreen & even a job offer but have decided to go to Canada because of the uncertainty in the immigration timescale. It's really for the sake of mine & my family's sanity! we can't live in this limbo anymore & have to have concrete plans!

I had more than enough theory & practical hours in peds, maternity & psychiatry for the USA & I can't think that Alberta will want anymore but it would be just re-assuring to know for sure - or at least with a fair deal of certainty - that their requirements are not going to hugely vary from those in the USA.