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I am a UK registered psychiatric nurse and plan to work in Alberta or British Columbia. It appears to me that Canadian government closed some hospitals recently. Is it easy to find a job after I registered in Alberta or BC?

I got a mental health nursing deploma , is it enough to register in Alberta or B.C. Advice pleased!

Thanks lot!!!

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I answered you on another thread. Most of the hospitals closed were smaller ones, so I don't know if you would have found work there anyways, but to find out if your diploma is enough to get you registered you can go to RNABC's website. http://www.rnabc.ca and it has links to Alberta's board of nursing too.

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Hi Francis. I'm sending on this website to you http://www.crpnbc.bc.ca

It's for the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of BC, probably full of info on licensing, etc.

You can also check out http://www.medhunters.com/links/m/rpn.html, which lists jobs in US and Canada.

I'm not a psych nurse, so am not too sure what's available here in the "lower mainland". I do know that the Royal Columbian Hospital, in New Westminster, has a psychiatric unit. You can check out available jobs on their website http://www.fraserhealth.ca

Riverview Hospital, in Coquitlam, is "the" psych hospital around here, but am not sure how the provincial government's "new era in health care" is impacting on it. I believe that their move is to get patients out of hosptal and onto the streets of Vancouver, to sleep on the sidewalks in order to save a buck. Guess you can figure out where I fit politically. Anyway, you could go into http://www.askjeeves.com, type in "Riverview Hospital" and see if they have a website. Good luck.

My best friend lives in Ramsey, Isle of Man. Where are you?

Katherine

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