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There is a specific English test to get your RN license in Canada. I am not sure if you would have to take it or not because you were educated in an English language country. NNAS will tell you. It was not required for me. You will have to take an English language test as part of the immigration process to Canada which is either the IELTS or CELPIP. I'm unsure if this would be waived for you if you were sponsored by a job there, but if you were sponsored by a job you probably would do fine on it anyway, plus your entry would be all but guaranteed so you wouldn't have to ace it. Best of luck!

Hi Amelia! That was a good idea. I did send a sample with my email inquiries to the colleges, but it just seemed to confuse them even more. My pre-reqs and ADN are through the Los Angeles community college system so, overworked and underfunded, but I finally talked to the person over the registrar and he was going to fill out the forms for me at one college and the dean of nursing agreed to fill them out at the other. I appreciate your response and best of luck! Tell me how you do, as you are ahead of me on this! Keri

Same here with the age situation(52 and 63), lack of relatives, etc. We are doing the CELPIP next week. Best of luck!!

Congratulations!That is fantastic!! The VP of the college said he will take care of the paperwork for me, so hopefully it will all get submitted in the end. I don't have any real time constraints other than those imposed by the NNAS. Are you going to try for Express Entry? My husband and I are doing so and taking our CELPIP English tests next week. They require it for all immigrants and if you get a good grade it boosts your Express Entry score. Right now the entry scores they accepting are pretty low, but we expect them to bounce back up once the quarantine is over so we are looking to beat the clock. From other postings here it doesn't sound like too many RN jobs are willing to sponsor you, but hopefully that is misinformation. A couple people have mentioned HealthMatch as a possible resource for jobs willing to sponsor, but it may involve living in an undesirable area for awhile. Check back and let me know what happens!

Congratulations on getting comparable!! It sounds like a pretty huge feat. I have a typical US RN education where I got my prerequisites at one institution, ADN at another and BSN somewhere else. My BSN school seems to have done the NNAS paperwork before so they were easy, my heart sank when I saw what I would be asking of my ADN program, but they have agreed to it. The prereq (Anatomy/Physiology) school is being a pain, I am claiming FERPA violation and meeting with a bigwig from there next week via ZOOM. I am trying to get a contact person at each institution so they understand what is needed and don't just half-a$$ the paperwork and fail to send the syllabi. I am lucky that I have worked for the same place for over five years. I haven't asked my manager to fill out the paperwork yet, but I don't expect it will be an issue. Best of luck with the BC licensing! That will be my eventual province as well so let me know how it goes!

Hello! I am currently attempting to submit my required education information to the NNAS to have my RN education assessed for comparability to a Canadian RN and I am having a hard time getting some of my US education institutions to comply. Are there any US RNs who successfully got their information sent to the NNAS? I am specifically having trouble with the community colleges I attended in the Los Angeles area. I think that they have never had this request before, don't know what to do and are therefore refusing. My RN to BSN program seems like they have more familiarity with the situation. Any information or advice on this is appreciated! I am already aware that NNAS sucks and I have an immigration lawyer so no one needs to address those pieces of my puzzle...

I'm a first year night shift nurse too. It sounds to me like you were doing all you could reasonably do. I get paranoid about something like this happening to my patients at night but the reality is that most patients are not going to appreciate being woken up for a neuro assessment q2hr throughout the night and it doesn't seem like anything about this woman would have led you to believe that she would need that. I think that it was just an unlucky circumstance for you and not really a reflection on your nursing skills especially if vitals were stable, pt breathing normally etc. Some people aren't easily arousable at night even without sleep meds. I work on a tele floor and I really appreciate the extra security afforded by being able to watch heart rhythms while people are sleeping. I'm sorry this happened to you (and the poor little lady). Keri

I just read your post. I am a new nurse as well- on my own for two months. I think that you should look at the fact that you went a year and a month without a mistake. Any experienced nurse would tell you that that is a record to be proud of. Honestly, nobody was injured by your mistake and you will always check the orders on epidurals now. I hope that I get through my first year and month without any mistakes! Keri

I'm truly enjoying nursing so far (3 months). I can see how it wouldn't be for everybody, especially people who have an office type job background. My background is food service- waitressing and catering, so I am used to long hours without breaks and putting up with people's demands. I actually get to sit down on the job doing charting now than I ever did in my other jobs. I have great support on my floor and an amazing preceptor so I think that has been very helpful.

Hello Bootybaby, It took two and a half weeks before my results posted on CA website, three weeks before I got my license in the mail. I have seen other people posting with situations similar to you who have passed. Do you have an SS #? Without one you will not see your license # on the website. I think that it all comes down to who is processing your file, maybe your person is on vacation or backed up or something. I asked about the IP during my many calls to CA BRN it means nothing if it is still there. One girl from my class failed and hers was still up after she got notice. I took tylenol PM almost everynight until I found out I passed. Good luck! Keri

Hello, I used saunders for content review. When I went back after my test and looked up answers to questions that I remembered they all had those little triangles next to them. I think it is a good book. Still don't know if I passed(CA) but I am feeling optimistic. I actually wish that I had had this book during nursing school because it really gets to the meat of the theory. I thought that the questions were kind of easy though compared to NCLEX. Kaplan's were more like the real deal. Good luck to you! Keri

Nervous, Our background checks for school didn't include fingerprints but applying for RN or LVN license you have to submit fingerprints. You are probably going to have some 'splaining to do at some point. Good luck. Keri

With two more tries I'm sure you will do fine. I used Mosby's Brown & Mulholland Drug calculations book. I kept doing equations similar to those that would be on the test over and over again. Always passed the first time with 100%. Also on your scratch paper be very organized- number the problems and keep all stuff worked out for each question in a boxed out area. That makes it easier to go over it again and check for mistakes even if you are running out of time at the end of the test. I have caught myself many times that way. Good luck but I don't think you'll need it you will be back here in a month letting us know you aced it. Keri