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  1. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    Hi matt Wow does city hospital reallly let you do that?? are you sure ogp was telling the truth? LOL as they once told me that wolverhampton uni did courses like that and when i rang the uni they...

  2. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    Ah I seee....well is there no way you could go to langara and stay there on campus while doing the theory part?? that way it would not be long distance?? where else have you asked to do your...

  3. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    Hiya Can I ask...have you actually done your NCLEX

  4. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    Hey hun Do you realise that the Langara college course , is not solely long distance?? its only the Theoretical component that is the distance learning part...to get your hours in the clinical side...

  5. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    Hello tina I'm so glad you rang to the right place! :) yes they still are doing the course,and Langara's courses at the college are an approved nursing school, the board of bc registration approve...

  6. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    Hi again mtroels Your mistaken about the course being cancelled? which course did you ask for? I rang up myself and asked its the Registered nurse qualifying courses that run the programme i was...

  7. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    Ahhh I see....yes in that case then you will need to find a programme which will allow you to make up the hours...have you first looked at programmes in the usa? perhaps there are schools which will...

  8. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    Hi mtroels If you scroll up, have a read of the post I replied to zulu, it details the amount of each module you need to take, if you only need to take the psychiatric theory and practice it is about...

  9. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    Hiya Zulu The cost of each nursing area is I believe 1500 canadian dollars (which in UK pounds is around 750 pounds), so for the paediatric theory&practice, its 1500, same for the mental health...

  10. American and Canadian RNs

    TinaK posted a topic in International Nursing

    This is by no means a American Vs. Canadian nurses post , I am a UK RN to be , and would like to work both in the USA as well as Canada in a couple years time, I wouldlike to know, what american...

  11. Adult nurses wanting to work in the USA..

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in Immigration Advice

    Your welcome Anna, I thought I would post as I know there are many student nurses out there who are in the same boat as me, in that they will be qualifying soon as an Adult nurse under the new...

  12. Any scrubs nurses out there? (UK ones)

    TinaK posted a topic in International Nursing

    Hello all I just wanted to know from any one here if they work as a theatre/scrubs nurse? and what it is like? is it an interesting area of nursing? Im heading for my last nursing placement in my...

  13. Any other ideas? :(

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in International Nursing

    Hiya I really hope you are eligible for NCLEX! what will you do if your not? will you have to make up the hours too? yes the tutors are being unreasonable, but as i said its all to do with wanting to...

  14. Any other ideas? :(

    TinaK posted a topic in International Nursing

    Hello all, Some of you may have read some of my posts about how to go about making up the hours for working in the states, I have tried many avenues and had all the doors shut on me so to speak and...

  15. Any other ideas? :(

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in International Nursing

    yes i did ask some of my tutors if i could do this and they still said no! (unbelievable isnt it!) i am going to try one last time with the head of the department but going by the reactions of the...

  16. working in BC

    TinaK posted a topic in International Nursing

    What hours do canadian nurses need to work in BC? do they need tohave 80 hours of clinical practice in obs/psych/and paeds nursing like the american nurses?? Is its easy for british Adultnurses to...

  17. Any other ideas? :(

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in International Nursing

    Apart from one or two theme days here and there for those subjects, then nope , my course doesnt really do those specialities, as i mentioned it was very heavily adult orientated , and have asked to...

  18. working in BC

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in International Nursing

    that is true, hmm i will look into that then and see what they say, thanks fergus!

  19. Any other ideas? :(

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in International Nursing

    Hi letina , sadly i need 80 hours worth of clinical time in obstetrics, paediatrics and psych nursing, as well as 40 hours worth of theory time in each of those , its quite a lot as my course is...

  20. working in BC

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in International Nursing

    Hmm I just had a look at the BCIT website at their requirements...I think you actually have to be in a canadian province to be eglible for the distance

  21. working in BC

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in International Nursing

    Thanks for those! I will have a look at the sites you have reccomended, also I went on the canadian immigration website..i have enough points to be able to immigrate to canada which is good, what if i...

  22. Any other ideas? :(

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in International Nursing

    Hiya I actually qualify in feb 2006 , as am in my final year of training now and have asked numerous agencies about advice ,all they say is to ask different nursing schools to let me make up the hours...

  23. Any other ideas? :(

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in International Nursing

    Hi there No I have not tried any EU universities, I would only really be able to do it from british universities, I guess I will have to wait till I am a qualified nurse and then save up money that...

  24. Students who have managed to make up the hours to work in the USA-HOW?

    TinaK replied to TinaK's topic in International Nursing

    Sounds like it took you a long while to get those hourse, how long was the other course you had to take to get your obs and psychiatric hours? was it a year course? I was thinking about online courses...

  25. Students who have managed to make up the hours to work in the USA-HOW?

    TinaK posted a topic in International Nursing

    Hi there, I'd like to hear from any students in the UK whose college or uni has let them make up hours in area's of nursing including psychiatric, pediatrics, obstetrics, in order to be eligible to...