nursing posts in canada

[PADDYMC]

Can anyone tell me if canada has learning disability nurses, or what they have instead. And does canada have health vistors/ kids nursing as that what my wife is registared in . looking at moving from the uk .

thanks

paddy

[Fiona59]

All nurses in Canada are trained/educated in all areas.

It depends on where you work, as to what your specialty will become. So any nurse who graduates from nursing school is able to work in peds, maternity, surgical, etc. Public Health Nurses are what you would call "health visitors". In my province they are required to be BScN's. We do have Registered Psych Nurses who work in Mental Health but they are also with some extra courses working in active treatment and Continuing Care.

[PADDYMC]

thanks for the info my wife has Bsc hons in peds and one Public Health with perscribing and i'v a BA hons in community studies, i work in forensic learning disabilities , so does canada have such places

thanks for your help

paddy

[ScotsLad82]

Hi PADDYMC I was wondering if you had any luck on finding out about learning disability nursing in Canada. I have found myself to be in the same situation as yourself. I am a RLDN and was hoping to move to Canada although i am unsure if this type of nursing exists there. Some say it does while others say it does not.

Would love to hear any info you may have learned about this.

[NotReady4PrimeTime, RN]

I meant to respond to this thread over the weekend but of course life got in the way. PADDYMC, there are a number of facilities in Canada that might employ you. Bloorview-MacMillan Children's Center is a rehabilitation center in Toronto. They provide care and treatment for a variety of disabilities. When I did a quick Google search I found this site, which appears to be a gold mine. For more information: http://www.abilities.ca/youth/youth_disab_orgs.php?showyouth=1 You might want to check out some of these links. Having said that, I'm not convinced that Canada has a specific "learning disabilities nurse" specialty per se. As Fiona59 said, all nurses in Canada are trained in basic nursing in the six major areas of medicine, surgery, obstetrics/gynaecology, pediatrics, psychiatry and community health as the minimum for entry to practice. Your education would have to be assessed by the province you hope to move to, and be found substantively equivalent to the education received by nursing graduates in that province before you would be allowed to write the Canadian Registered Nurse Exam. The CRNE is an imperative; no one will be permitted to practice as a registered nurse in Canada without it. No one. I would suggest that you have a look at the website I linked, pick a couple of likely places to research further and then seek an opinion form the College of Nurses in the provinces those facilities are set in as to your employability. Be forewarned: the process will be long, arduous and expensive. Only you can decide if it's worth it. Best of luck.