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  1. Good Critical Care Nursing Programs in Canada

    IENs have to go through many steps to become registered in Canada, the first step is to have their education assessed by NNAS for equivalency to Canadian nurses. Most IENS education is not comparable...
  2. What is the current job market? Is there a shortage of local qualified nurses in Chicago? if not, how will the hospital justify the need to hire a Canadian nurse on a TN visa? Considering Trump wants...
  3. Good Critical Care Nursing Programs in Canada

    Is there a reason why you would want to take a course in Canada? Have you looked at the admission requirements for the schools listed in castiela's post? If you are not able meet the Canadian...
  4. Health Care is Not a Right

    The question 'Is health care a right?' is a standard debate question in nursing programs and in the classes I have been in, we were free to debate either yes or no (without attacking the opponents...
  5. Health Care is Not a Right

    If you have a good prof for nursing theory you are very lucky, you're also lucky that you are taking it before you have had exposure to the real world of nursing because you don't have to wrestle with...
  6. Health Care is Not a Right

    There are not MANY, the nursing statistics show the number of Canadian nurses that move to work in the US is about 1-2%. Professional nursing associations, nursing unions and other nursing advocates...
  7. Health Care is Not a Right

    It is not unusual for wealthy Canadians to want a two tier system and many Canadians argue against allowing any privatization as it may be a slippery slope to full privatization. However, that hasn't...
  8. Health Care is Not a Right

    The wait times for shoulder surgery may be longer for reasons such as; Ontario has small number of orthopedic surgeons that specialize in shoulders (US has ten times the population, has a greater...
  9. Health Care is Not a Right

    You are years out of date if you believe that the Ontario government and public deny that their are private services for diagnostic tests such as MRIs, endoscopies and surgeries such as hernia repair....
  10. Verbally Abused

    Are residents who are routinely verbally aggressive at higher risk to become physically aggressive? If so, the employer should have a policy in place that aggressive residents be assigned two staff...
  11. Nursing degree

    Why did you invest your money in a bsc, mba and msc health and social care management, if nursing was always your
  12. NNAS inquiry

    You can use the search tool in the top right hand corner of AN to find a thread entitled 'NNAS experience', in it, IENS describe their experiences with NNAS and competency assessment
  13. It sounds like the job market in your area is an employer's market, if so, employers are not likely to hire a stale grad with no experience, when they can hire experienced nurses or fresh grads. You...
  14. Not sure I can handle BSN School.

    Many nursing students, when they first start a nursing program, look at each of the courses as if they are separate pieces of information, but after they have been in the program for awhile, they...
  15. Job process in Netherlands

    Educate yourself about the requirements for IENs to become licensed RNs in the Netherlands. Educate yourself about the immigration and labour laws for living and working in the Netherlands. Once you...
  16. Not only do you need to be licensed in the state in which you wish to work, you also need a TN visa and in order to obtain a TN visa you need Canadian
  17. They didn't hire an attorney because they thought it 'would put them into bankruptcy', unfortunately it looks like not hiring an attorney is going to result in
  18. Is leaving before hurricane abandonment?

    This why all employers should have a disaster plan prepared well ahead of time. The employer is responsible for creating a list of employees who agree they can make it into work and the amount of time...
  19. Canadian practice for US-trained midwife?

    If you want to be a nurse-midwife you will have to focus on the steps you will need to take to become licensed as a RN in Canada first. There isn't a shortage of of local qualified nurse midwives in...
  20. Good Critical Care Nursing Programs in Canada

    Another country's ICU course will not necessarily be relevant to your country's ICU practices. The program within your country is based on the technology, equipment that is available in your country....
  21. ADON having sex with CNA

    Affairs between superiors and subordinates = sexual harassment lawsuits and unwanted media attention. Human resources and senior management usually want to be made aware so that they can circumvent...
  22. Good Critical Care Nursing Programs in Canada

    The admission requirements for most Canadian critical nursing programs is proof of registration as a RN in the province in which the program is located. Do you have Canadian
  23. IELTS for US states

    If you look at the BON English language requirements you should be able to determine if there are exemptions. For example the Arizonia BON specifies IENS who graduated from a country where the...
  24. Athabasca University student housing????

    If you know where and when you will be doing your clinical placements, you could check out airbnb 1 month sublet/short term rentals for those
  25. What if after giving the vaccine to your father, he has the rare reaction of anaphylaxis are you prepared to deal with it? If not, you should not be giving