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  1. Night shifts and medical issues

    You were aware that you have difficulty tolerating night shifts when you were hired six months ago, but yet accepted the position because of an unrealistic hope of moving into a day shift position....
  2. Mexican Nurses Working in USA

    You can find out if others with similar education received eligibility for licensing by looking at the statistical reports for ncsbn nclex pass rates. There is a category for country of nursing...
  3. Interviewing for the same job twice

    Employers don't usually post the same job twice if they are wiling to reconsider hiring one of the interviewees from the first job posting
  4. Internationally Educated Nurses of CANADA

    If you want to read first-hand stories from nurses who work/worked in remote or isolated First Nations communities, look on the Government of Canada website
  5. Internationally Educated Nurses of CANADA

    No,that would be considered a medium sized city. Remote nursing is in nursing stations in First Nations or Inuit communities that are many kilometres from the nearest hospital (some can only be...
  6. Internationally Educated Nurses of CANADA

    There are jobs in under serviced areas (northern, remote or first nations communities) but many immigrants prefer to settle in the large Canadian
  7. What would be the benefit of having a nurse assess the NNAS applications? The duties and responsibilities for a job as a NNAS international credential evaluator are administrative duties, they...
  8. Internationally Educated Nurses of CANADA

    It is unlikely in the current surplus market that a Canadian healthcare employer can justify hiring an IEN on a work
  9. Thanks for sharing your experience sorensic, it's good to know that even though a NNAS report may be non-comparable, CRNBC takes into consideration that the country in which an applicants practices...
  10. Immigration Requirements for Australia and New Zealand

    click on the double arrow symbol,when you are on the first page of the thread you will see the start of the thread page numbers 1234...then a double arrow
  11. I agree with silverdragon and vyecheverria, get some experience while undergoing the licensing process. In the meantime, does your university offer study abroad placements for nursing students? Some...
  12. The ministry of health has your employment record? not your employer's human resources
  13. Anyone know about Labor Laws?

    If a workplace has a lot of people quit, the employer needs to wake up and start appreciating and respecting the remaining employees and grant their time off, otherwise they will have an epidemic of...
  14. Was your employment information provided by the official authorized to provide your employment information and sent directly from them to to NMC? Was it written in
  15. Study nursing in the Philippines or in US?

    Nursing is not a good pre-med choice Yes, an internationally educated nurse usually finds it more difficult to become licensed than a locally educated grad Yes, the statistics for NCLEX pass rates are...
  16. USA trained BSN-RN license transfer to Canada

    It's possible that Canadian regulatory bodies will do away with a national licensing exam for Canadian educated nurses all together. The licensing bodies will to continue to use NNAS, as there would...
  17. USA trained BSN-RN license transfer to Canada

    The licensing bodies know how much time and tax payers' money has been and continues to be spent on the NNAS tool, they are not going to start from scratch and create a different tool, they are going...
  18. USA trained BSN-RN license transfer to Canada

    Are those post-secondary institutions recruiting international students or IENs? I know a couple of them were recruiting and misinforming IENs in the past, but I thought they stopped that practice...
  19. USA trained BSN-RN license transfer to Canada

    Where I am, school faculty use Turnitin software to detect plagiarism in student's essays and large healthcare employers use keyword software to screen
  20. USA trained BSN-RN license transfer to Canada

    It doesn't make sense for NNAS to pay people to do the word search when a software program is faster, more efficient and
  21. USA trained BSN-RN license transfer to Canada

    The reason the regulatory bodies selected NCLEX is because NCSBN's proposal met their requirements for a computer based exam and ASI's proposal did not. The NCLEX is one way of measuring entry to...
  22. USA trained BSN-RN license transfer to Canada

    It is very possible that NNAS uses a technology called optical character recognition. A special software that scans documents much as an assistant instructed to look for certain words and phrases...
  23. USA trained BSN-RN license transfer to Canada

    Just to clarify, CNO has nothing to do with 'recruiting' nurses, their mandate is to protect the public by ensuring nurses meet the licensing requirements and recruiting nurses would be a conflict of...
  24. USA trained BSN-RN license transfer to Canada

    Actually, the changes were/are driven by a joint effort between the provinces, territories and the federal governments via the Pan-Canadian Framework for the Assessment and Recognition of Foreign...
  25. Alberta Nurse Job Hunt

    Are there current job postings advertising for transition unit, clinic, case coordinator or office positions? If so, what are the qualifications and preferred years of experience? Are the positions...