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is it possible?

recently graduated march '08 with a degree Bsc (hons) nursing in england and just received my registration from the NMC and i now have a job in A&E as a band 5 nurse. However my wife who is also a nurse has received an offer letter following an interview to work in alberta. She loves the feel of Canada and thinks we can set up a home with our 2 kids. we have been to canada on holiday and it is her dream to work there. However we are not sure if my status as a new graduate with only a month experience as a registered nurse make it difficult for me to also work as a nurse.

Can anyone advise us with regards to what to expect from CARNA if i do apply? Also will it be difficult securing a job as i have few practice hours behind me?

Replies will be really appreciated.:confused:

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I do not think you will have any problems not having much in the way of experience but you may have issues if your training did not cover all areas. The best thing is to go through assessment and get your training evaluated, they will soon tell you if you are any hours short in any areas. Plus going through the process is going to take several months so still gaining experience. We have just moved to Nova Scotia and love it even though it has been snowing for a few hours :)

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Welcome to allnurses! :balloons:

I've moved your thread to the International Nursing forum, which is where we (mods) try to keep all questions about working in another country.

You can find the Int'l Nursing forum under the yellow "Region" tab toward the top of the screen, and there is lots of info there about immmigration and licensure in Canada. There are also plenty of Canadian nurses who post here regularly who can respond to your questions.

Best wishes! :)

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what is CARNA looking at during assessment for eligibility? is it theory and practice hours on your transcript and if so what are they expecting you to have attained

Not sure what they are looking for exactly but will image it will be to make sure you meet the same or similar requirements of Canadian trained RN's

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They're looking for equivalency with the education received by nurses educated in Canada. Here we're all educated to be generalists and have both theory and clinical hours in each of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, obstetrics and pediatrics. CARNA will assess your education based on your transcripts but may also request information from your school (syllabus). CARNA is about the strictest college of nursing in Canada in terms of what they will accept and many nurses from the UK have been asked to upgrade their education. Alberta also has a substantively-equivalent competence assessment for those cases where the education is borderline. There are several threads that talk about CARNA, and if your questions aren't asnwered after you've read them I'll see if I can elucidate.

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They're looking for equivalency with the education received by nurses educated in Canada. Here we're all educated to be generalists and have both theory and clinical hours in each of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, obstetrics and pediatrics. CARNA will assess your education based on your transcripts but may also request information from your school (syllabus). CARNA is about the strictest college of nursing in Canada in terms of what they will accept and many nurses from the UK have been asked to upgrade their education. Alberta also has a substantively-equivalent competence assessment for those cases where the education is borderline. There are several threads that talk about CARNA, and if your questions aren't asnwered after you've read them I'll see if I can elucidate.

Please elaborate on how many hours of theory and practice needed for the the following areas; psychiatry, obstetrics, and pediatrics for CARNA elegibility. Alternatively, how many hours are are spent by canadian nurses on these 3 areas during their training. Arough estimate will do just as a guidiance in arriving at a decision of whether to apply or not. Thank you

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(You're asking a lot from somebody who has been up all night, and it's going on for 10 am here...)

Generally speaking, each of those areas are 6 credit hour courses that are one full term in length. The University of Calgary's courses are 39 lecture and lab hours plus 128 clinical hours per area. CARNA has just included a section for IENs that demystifies a lot of issues and you can get there from here: http://www.nurses.ab.ca/Carna/index.aspx ... look for the box at the lower left of the page.

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