Nursing student in US, but want to work in Canada

[ksics]

Right now I'm a student in Pennsylvania, I still have 2 years left before getting my Associates and taking the NCLEX. I hope to work in Ontario as an RN and eventually further my education and work as an NP. The problem is, I can't get a clear answer on the best way to do things. I know I'm going to need a bachelors, and take the Canadian version of the NCLEX. I don't know the right way to go about things, and I want to figure it out before it's too late. Should I get my bachelors here and get experience before moving? Or should I apply to BSN programs in Canada, despite international tuition cost, or will that not apply if I'm working as an RN while I'm in school? Moving before finishing the program I am in now doesn't seem like an option as far as I know.

Has anyone done this? How did it work for you, or what would you do differently?

[FutureFertilityNurse]

Question - if the OP did her schooling in Ontario and then decided to move back to the US, would it be just as difficult? Or would that be pretty straight forward?

[dishes, BSN, RN]

Question - if the OP did her schooling in Ontario and then decided to move back to the US, would it be just as difficult? Or would that be pretty straight forward?

It would be pretty straight forward, they would have to apply to the state BON as a foreign educated nurse. There are more than two thousand Ontario licensed nurses who hold concurrent licenses in Ontario and the US, see CNO Statistical membership report(2015).

[RN-Addie]

Hello, 

I am about to graduate from a BSN program this Summer from the US. Would I still need to go through NNAS? Would someone please give me a brief breakdown of the process I would need to follow?

 

Thank you.