alba82

Hi guys, i've just been reading your posts and i'm in the same situation. i'm a RN registered in the UK and applied to CNO in April, i was told it would be 20 weeks before i heard back from them. Exactly 20 weeks later (22nd August) I got a letter stating that my application was now in a que to be assessed further and that the current wait time for that was 11 months! i just don't understand what they have been doing with my application for the last 5 months- i thought they were assessing it but obviously not. Its just so frustrating as i want to be working as a nurse. Im also frustrated that i wasn't told it would take this long when i put in my application and it doesn't say on the website that it will take so long. There should be more information about application times on the website. If i'd know when i applied that it would take this long i think i would have just enrolled in a rpn course, i feel like i've just wasted the last 5 months and i'm no further forward. I appreciate that they need to thoroughly assess every application and i think that's a really good thing, it makes sure all nurses are trained to the same level. however, they obviously have a huge backlog so why don't they employ further staff? Afterall they will be getting fees in with every application. Also i've read in various posts on the forum that there are very few jobs for rn's and rpn's in ontario. Where i live in south west ontario that's not the case, our local nursing home has to use agency nurses from toronto as they can't get rn's and for exampe the hospital at owen sound always has rn and rpn posts advertised, i just had a look and there's 11 nursing jobs advertised on their website at present and that's only one of the hospitals in my area.