Please help. Don't know where to start

There are literally dozens of threads here that cover everything you've asked. Please read some of the replies.

In short: 1) You have to be licensed in the country where you were educated, no matter where you are a citizen, before you will be considered for eligibility to be licensed anywhere in Canada. 2) Your education will be assessed by the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia against the standrad of nursing education in BC. If your education is equivalent, you will be given eligibility to write the CRNE. If it is not equivalent then you may be required to undergo a substantially equivalent competence assessment and then you may be required to take upgrading courses to reach equivalence before you will be permitted to write the exam.

So i should take the local board exam here first?.. is there any other way? Like take NCLEX or something? sorry for

the stupid question. I'm just lost. thanks again.

NCLEX is for the US. I would suggest you check what the province college requires and my understanding is a license where you trained.

In general a local license is always preferred, it shows that you have proficient and have met the standards in the country you went to school. You should use this knowledge as a foundation before you try to learn another country's nursing practice.

If you fail your local license you will know that your basic knowledge is not adequate and your how country is the best way to assess your knowledge.

ok thanks for all who commented. it really helped me alot. by the way, im new here. regards mike

I kinda have the same problem too. The College of nurses of ontario sent me a letter requesting the PRC to send them a letter explaining why I couldn't take the Philippine RN board exam. To make the long story short, after a few months of waiting, I finally got the PRC to send a letter to the CNO. By reading the threads here, I wonder if it would have been easier to apply for dual citizenship, take the Philippines local boards and then apply for a Canadian RN license. Anyways, good luck to you!

In general a local license is always preferred, it shows that you have proficient and have met the standards in the country you went to school. You should use this knowledge as a foundation before you try to learn another country's nursing practice.

If you fail your local license you will know that your basic knowledge is not adequate and your how country is the best way to assess your knowledge.

That makes total sense. If all states and provices would just look at it that way and require local licenses, then they can weed out the ones who don't have the basic knowledge to function in their own country.