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dishes BSN, RN

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  1. What is nursing like in Toronto?

    There are job postings on the website ontarionursing.ca, the site gives current RN postings as well as profiles of the healthcare providers. Also, the Marskell group health careers interaction hosts...
  2. What is nursing like in Toronto?

    Does your husband have a job in Toronto? If so, just stay the course with your plans to move to Toronto, it doesn't make sense financially for you to move to BC if neither of you have a job offer...
  3. What is nursing like in Toronto?

    If you have a driver's license and a car, you may be able to obtain a community nursing job with one of the agencies in Toronto such as; Paramed, Bayshore, SRT,
  4. You are providing a lot of information about your boyfriend and yourself that make it possible for him and/or your colleagues to identify both of you. It seems like he has an introverted personality,...
  5. Coping w/th working outside a desired specialty

    If you can be identified by your user name suggest you ask the moderators to help you change it. As pp pointed out, your colleagues may feel like it's a waste of their time and energy to invest in...
  6. Ontario Vulnerable police check

    A vulnerable sector police check is different from a police criminal record
  7. @nurse2gud, I don't know if you are aware but there are some free English quizzes and resources on the Canadian Immigration and Citizenship website, see cic.gc.ca, improving your English and French,...
  8. It depends when they need to submit proof of their English language scores, if CRNBC does not require it until after they have completed the NCLEX, then yes they can wait to do the CELBAN, but if they...
  9. Chewed out from family

    It isn't the fictional hospital names that are the problem, it's the unique details about the patient's situation and the OP's communication with the family members that may make it easy for the...
  10. There is no point in an IEN immigrating to Canada if they cannot meet the nursing licensing requirements, they risk becoming deskilled and may never work as a nurse again. It's better if an IEN knows...
  11. Question about CNO

    Becoming a physician is a longer more expensive process for an IMG than becoming a RN is for an
  12. Question about CNO

    @basilkingsley, are you aware that CNO requires applicants to have proof of recent RN practice within three years and if they do not, they are required to undergo a bridging
  13. The prediction of nursing shortages was based on the baby boomers retiring but it doesn't to take into account the other more important factors that influence nursing surplus/shortage cycles in...
  14. Keep practicing your English communication skills as you will need them to work safely in Canada and you will need them to be successful in the NCAS competency assessment (if you have to undergo it)....
  15. NNAS experience?

    The provinces have different names for their IEN competency exams, BC has NCAS, Alberta & Ontario use the same assessment provider (Touchstone Institute) although in Alberta the exam name is ARNAP...
  16. You do not have to be in Canada to write the NCLEX you can write it anywhere there is a Pearson VUE test centre that offers the exam. It is not the right job market to get a one year student visa in...
  17. What is nursing like in Toronto?

    It is confusing when some of the websites (for example Healthforce Ontario) give the impression that there is currently a shortage. Also, even if people are well prepared ahead time, culture shock is...
  18. There is no guarantee that you would find an employer willing to offer a job to someone who requires work permit, the job market is in a surplus cycle, not a shortage cycle. Paying a private school to...
  19. What is nursing like in Toronto?

    The job market in Toronto is saturated with applicants, it can take applicants >8 months to obtain a casual position and years to obtain a full time position. Most of Ontario nurses who work in...
  20. Nursing Limbo.....

    If the job requirements list a license and if the online application system keeps applications/resumes on file for six months, it's possible that the system might not accept more applications from the...
  21. It's not unusual for immigrant parents to pressure their children to follow a career path that the parents value. Many immigrants sacrificed their own dreams so that their children could have...
  22. Need information about providing proof of employment

    I don't understand what your agency manager meant by telling you to submit the format. Your manager needs to write a reference letter that includes your name, their relationship to you (your manager,...
  23. Receiving casual work only???

    Nursing jobs go through surplus and shortage cycles based on economic and political factors and most cities and well populated areas in Canada are currently in a surplus cycle. If you look at the...
  24. What is the reason you are working in the UK as healthcare assistant rather than a
  25. Tough predicament, need guidance

    First and foremost, you need to see the bigger picture. Find out from the BON what happens to the graduates of schools of non-approved nursing schools. The BON can legally stipulate that any person...