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  1. Just took the NCLEX

    gchelak replied to gchelak's topic in International Nursing

    I am going to enjoy myself and my new job for a while before I start studying for the CRNE. Does anyone know what happens to my US license when I move to Canada? Do I need to keep doing RNCEU's and...

  2. Just took the NCLEX

    gchelak posted a topic in International Nursing

    ... and I am scared to death that I did not pass! I have been reading a bunch of posts and talking to my classmates and they all say the same thing as what I am feeling...but I can't help but worry...

  3. Just took the NCLEX

    gchelak replied to gchelak's topic in International Nursing

    Thanks so much for the advice. I went online today (just in case the results were there) and YES, they were! I PASSED! I can not believe it! I do have the CRNE newest edition book, but because it...

  4. Just took the NCLEX

    gchelak replied to Lori0823's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am so glad I found this site! I took the NCLEX-RN yesterday and I too feel like I guessed at almost all of the answers. I had 75 questions in about 1.5 hrs and remembered some of them when I got...

  5. moving home to canada

    gchelak replied to maritime nurse's topic in International Nursing

    Further to this:

  6. moving home to canada

    gchelak replied to maritime nurse's topic in International Nursing

    As far as I know, you have to have a US green card for 5 yrs before you can apply. You can hire a lawyer, but it is just as easy to file the papers yourself (my husband's work had one representing him...

  7. moving home to canada

    gchelak replied to maritime nurse's topic in International Nursing

    Between Canada and the US- you can get your dual without giving up anything. With other countries it may be different (S Korea will not let you have dual or they will renounce you I

  8. Question on actual test dates

    gchelak posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I am graduating in Dec 2005 and we were told to register on the Pearson Vue site and pay for the NCLEX a month prior to graduation. We can not actually register for the test until the school says we...

  9. Question on actual test dates

    gchelak replied to gchelak's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    If the NCLEX-PN is anything like the NCLEX-RN, once you get your Authorization to Test in the mail (you had to have gone to Pearson Vue and registered and paid for your test, and have all of the...

  10. Labor and Delivery

    gchelak replied to gchelak's topic in International Nursing

    Thanks for the encouragement! I am going to see if anyone I know knows someone in that area. Unfortunately, BC is not an option since we built a house in Calgary. I just have to wait for the SLOW...

  11. Labor and Delivery

    gchelak posted a topic in International Nursing

    Hi: I was wondering how hard it is to get into L&D as a "new grad". I am currently in the US and just about to finish school here. I have been tossing around ideas as to where I want to practice...

  12. Question on actual test dates

    gchelak replied to gchelak's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    so when our class gets its letters, it is first come, first serve? This might mean that even though Austin is a new testing center, there might not be enough room for all of us to take it when we...

  13. TIMELINE for taking CRNE for US educated nurse

    gchelak posted a topic in International Nursing

    hi there: i was wondering if anyone had experience with the time it takes from application to receiving the rn license in canada. i am about to graduate from a us nursing school. i am canadian born...

  14. TIMELINE for taking CRNE for US educated nurse

    gchelak replied to gchelak's topic in International Nursing

    Thanks, that was my next

  15. Labor and Delivery

    gchelak replied to gchelak's topic in International Nursing

    thanks for the advice. I accepted a position in the newborn nursery for the months that I am here. I do not mind "working my way up" to L&D, but don't want mother/baby forever. I finally got my...

  16. Any Canucks "Disappointed" after moving to the US to practice?

    gchelak replied to Camelhappy1's topic in International Nursing

    I am still in school (35 days left!) in TX and we are taught to dilute as the IV meds book tells us. For morphine it does say you can give it undiluted or with 5ml SW or NS (which is they way most of...

  17. Skills allowed

    gchelak replied to gchelak's topic in International Nursing

    (quote) there's a skills lab where you do a return demo on a dummy arm... then you must be watched by another certified nurse or the nurse educator for your unit for your first 3 pokes... once they've...

  18. Skills allowed

    gchelak posted a topic in International Nursing

    I am almost finished with my ADN in the US and will be moving back to Canada shortly. I am a dual citizen and last I understood, I can take the CRNE once I have passed my NCLEX in the US and the...

  19. Skills allowed

    gchelak replied to gchelak's topic in International Nursing

    thanks for the info- perhaps there is more to this than she told

  20. Skills allowed

    gchelak replied to gchelak's topic in International Nursing

    my understanding is that she was an RN... I thought this sounded really weird! I am from Calgary and my husband is already there (we built a house in Airdrie). The transfer happend when I was just...

  21. How to work as a CNA or LPN in Canada?

    gchelak replied to rhp123's topic in International Nursing

    i was born in canada, therefore i have a canadian passport, a social insurance number and am a canadian citizen. i live in texas now and am a cna in texas. i am moving back to alberta and was...

  22. CRNE Test review info

    gchelak replied to gchelak's topic in International Nursing

    I am not even to the point of studying for the CRNE - I am going to school in the US and have to face the NCLEX in Jan. The Canadian nursing board said that I can not apply for the CRNE until I pass...

  23. Nurses Taking Jobs in U.S.

    gchelak replied to curtise's topic in International Nursing

    Yes, BE CAREFUL! I have heard that they bring you here with all of these promises, and you end up doing the "crappy" work that no one wants because you haev a

  24. Pre-Grad in Alberta/BC ER

    gchelak replied to S.T.A.C.E.Y's topic in International Nursing

    Thanks for the info- it is hard to be so far from Canada and learn all of this- never mind the disadvantage of not being able to "impress" anyone with my potential skills. I am coming up in Aug and...

  25. Pre-Grad in Alberta/BC ER

    gchelak replied to S.T.A.C.E.Y's topic in International Nursing

    I remember hearing about the shelter incident and Ralph. You mean he is retiring? I had heard he was going to call an election some time ago- but like I said- no news here... I barely knew about the...