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Hi I am an internationally educated nurse from India.i applied for my rn eligibility for cno and they advised me to take osce as my education was not equivalent to Canadian baccalaureate program.someone please tell me what is safe period.i need to register for osce but unfortunately there is no available date this year as it is full.now I can register for 2017 osce.but I am worried about my safe period.i graduated my BSc 2010 , I have only one year of clinical practice and that's in 2011.then I did my masters , graduated in 2014 and got registered in council in 2015.please someone tell when my safe practice will get expired?if I plan osce in 2017 what will happen to my safe period.now cno mentioned only about education competencies they haven't told anything about my safe period.anticipating reply

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.

Evidence of safe practice must be within the preceeding 3 years. Evidence of Practice

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@seena are you able to work as a RN in India in 2016-2017 and return to Canada shortly before the OSCE?

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Hi dishes , is it a good idea if I could go back to india in 2016- 2017.how will I get benefitted? When will my safe period gonna end? Am i safe 3 years from my msc nursing registration date ?If i do some courses here will that help me to meet the competency gaps in my education and extend my safe practice.If so which course should I do? Anticipating reply.

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What month in 2014 did you graduate from the masters program? Your proof of recent experience will expire in that same month in 2017. After you do the OSCE in 2017, you may wait months for a response from CNO and approval to write the NCLEX. If you do not complete all of the registrations steps by the time your proof of practice expires in 2017, you will not be eligible for registration. In order to prevent your experience from expiring, you should work in India as a RN in 2016-2017, that way you will have a new expiry date from the time you stop working. If you stop working in 2016 your proof of experience will expire in 2019, if you stop working in 2017 your proof of experience will expire in 2020.

If you search on AN and the Toronto Star newspaper you will see stories about IENs who ran out of time while trying to become registered in Ontario.

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Hi dishes.thank u so much for your response. I contacted cno and theytold me my safe ppractice is already expired as they take into account my last clinical experience which is in 2011.so it expired on 2014.During MSc(2012-2014) I had clinical postings, so won't they consider it? What is the end results for those whose safe practice is already expired. If I go back to my home country to earn clinical experience will they consider as my safe period is already expired.now they advised to complete osce and later they will tell about what to do with the safe practice. I'm not sure what to do. Please reply

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

I would suggest asking the college if they will accept going back to your own country to work for x months

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IS there anyone who is writing their osce this FEb or march 2017. Please contact for group study.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.

OSCEs aren't written. They're Objective Structured Clinical Examinations.

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I meant the IENCAP in general- MCQ and OSCE. Thanks for the clarification though..^_^

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