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Hi, I am a current nurse practicing in B.C. I have recently been interested in pursuing NP in near future. However I have been getting mixed information regarding income. I have heard that RN and NP income in B.C isn't that different considering if RN reach that 9th pay grade. I would like some insights from NP who are practicing in B.C 1. How is your pay structured? (For example are you paid hourly? salary? Fee?) My understanding is NP is not unionized and Canada isn't paying fee for service to them. What kind of benefits are included or are you receiving? 2. I know that from some research that NP do quite well in States. Some commanding up to 300k it seems. (probably owning their private practice) Can NP in Canada expect to receive a good pay for their education? 3. I will be shadowing some NP near my work but what does your role usually involve? I have heard that some NP do home visits, palliative care, cardiac management, or some ICU NP do insert central lines and stuff. 4. Lastly, is there any Canadian trained NP going down to states to open practice or get hired? Do Canadian trained NP get recognized as FNP? I know that NP in states are divided base on specialty like ARNP, ACNP, FNP and so on. If Canadian NP get trained as ACNP like from BCIT i believe, do U.S recognize it? I know that for some it is a sensitive topic to talk about your pay. and since it is a forum where our identity is hidden, I would appreciate if you can share your knowledge. By all means, I am not pursuing NP for the money, but I think doing the research to know exactly what I can expect after graduation is also important aspect prior to pursuing anything. Thanks for your expertise!

yes, you will require at least 150+ volunteer hours to be competitive in my opinion. Although nursing is a undergrad degree it is professional degree unlike other science/business degrees. If you have not heard back from UFV, I suggest redoing the courses that you got B in and upgrade it to A and do lot, I mean lot of hospital hours. Nursing program is extremely competitive due to small size of intake every year, so try to upgrade anything that you can upgrade on.

Your marks seems to be in quite good standing in my opinion and the number of volunteer hours seems to be very reasonable. I would talk to UFV about how you could improve your marks when you clearly have good standing. I have 4.0 GPA from pre-req and have 2.5 GPA from undergrad. My first guess is that the candidates this year intake (Sept 2012) clearly have very good academic standing thus good marks did not contribute much into getting the highest points for evaluation process. My second guess would be that your interview did not go as you might have hoped. My last guess would be that UFV did not receive your upgraded marks. I would check on all these three possibilities and hope to get in for Jan intake. It is a possibility that admissions office made a mistake on your evaluation. (They made a mistake on mine so I had to call them and let them know) Have you applied into Kwantlen or any other nursing schools?

I have just checked myufv and I got an acceptance conditionally (Whatever that means). So go check ur myufv!