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My husband is Canadian. I'm finishing up my ADN in the states and he wants to move back to B.C. I have to have my BSN first and want to make sure the online WGU degree would be acceptable for my license there. I'm going to call the Canadian board of ...

There are sooo many areas of nursing for you to explore and find your niche. You may consider community health clinic-browse your county job website for public health nursing opportunities too, clinic nursing (ENT, Dermatology, etc), Surgery, Psychi...

Some pay higher to include hazard pay due to the population you work with. Also can be harder positions to fill. The jails are more acute in people are coming in off the streets - some unstable and needing to detox in the health clinic. Depending on ...

This year I completed the process for my RN license in BC. As others mentioned, the real headache is with NNAS. They lost the flash drive with my syllabi on it and other submitted papers. It was a process for sure. My RN education was deemed equival...

When I graduated nursing a few years ago school I had a 2 y/o and 4 y/o. My husband worked M-F 8-530/or 12-930pm. We wanted to use as little childcare as possible so I tried a few things. 1. Private duty with peds- pay was low, schedule flexible, ...

Nursemaple 2, Will your MSN be transferable to Canada? I am considering switching from the RN-BSN track to the RN-MSN track with WGU. We are planning to move back to Canada in another year or two to be closer to my husbands family. I am worried th...

Yes, just take the objective assessment and get it out of the way. Getting out of school recently definitely helps. I am a recent grad too.

I am also starting 9/1 :) RN-BSN.

I live in the states and will be graduating with my RN from a 2 year program down here in March. I know in Canada they require a Bachelors for RN work. So, I will be taking a "bridge" program down here to get my Bachelors online rather than the tradi...

I'm a new grad and have not looked around at other states much to see how it compares. But, this area is completely saturated with nurses due to all the schools here. I don't know if that has something to do with it. I have looked at Portland and ...

Thanks Tokmom. Wow, they are lucky to have spots held. I would take it in a minute. Nights are hard, but as a new grad that is what I am expecting from any hospital.

I just graduated with my ADN and will be taking the NCLEX in April. Will let you know how my job search goes. At our clinical orientation at Swedish we were told they were not hiring ADN's and were only hiring BSN grads. Unless you have a big foot...

Shoreline stil has a great reputation and program. Definitely go with accredidation. That is a hell of a rough commute though.

Thank you Fiona, I know, I have been watching the threads and job outlook. I plan on getting experience in the states while working on bridge program for BSN before we move back there. His sister is a public health nurse on VI so hoping that may he...

If you were truly that unhappy I would not go back. But, if you want a job in the same hospital or system then it will be tough. What kind of nursing do yuou want to do?

Have you checked with everett cc? They are based on TEAS test. Need micro for many, but have you added up what your points would be for shoreline with your work experience AND volunteering? Those points may help make up for the C in stats.

I would apply to several schools. North seattle was a little easier to apply with. I didn't have a CNA position, but I did have the volunteer hours.

They are point based on acceptance. So it really also depends on how many points you will get for work experience and volunteering to make up for lower GPA. For the most part mostly A's maybe some B's depending on the above and who else is applying...

I made the switch because I could not make enough to retire! There are also more opportunities. I really needed more financial autonomy.

I also have found some people in school stress about not getting enough experience with blood draws, iv cath placements and urinary cath placements or other tasks and I don't get worried about it. One reason being past experience with all the animal...

Hi, I was a vet tech for 7 years before nursing school. It definitely was helpful. So much is the same in way of illnesses. I worked at specialty vet hospitals and moved around from er/ICU, surgery, internal medicine and many of the same meds are ...

I know this is an old post, but what did you find out? I am living in the states and planning on going the WGU route for RN-BSN. My husband is Canadian and he wants to move back near his family. Just wanted to see if you had any troubles transferr...

Tokmom, I am just getting close to graduating from an ADN program. This last year we were told there had been a pretty big shift in this area for BSNs from most of the hospitals. I will just have to see what's available when I graduate, but I am pl...

Tokmom, Providence Everett also is requiring a BSN w/in 5 years of hire too. Ken, here is a link to the WA state nurses assn with a list of all the hospitals down at the bottom. You could google each hospitals nursing contract for the pay scales an...

North shore school district has a great reputation. Youcould google it and look at boundaries. Some find moving from such sunny places to here a bit challenging :) many of the hospitals are requiring adn's to get their bsn within 3-5 years of hiri...