Acada15

BSN with no area of specialization.

Thank you very much. It seems that you have been into nursing profession for a long time. This is my forth month in Alberta and I'm just trying to understand how the system work here. I have a bachelor degree in chemistry since 2002 and have been working for a company outside Canada. Now I want a change in carrier and I choose nursing. I look at it that it will give me time to take care of my family. I will not like to go for BSN after degree that will be too hectic for me. I will like to start as a fresher. Psychiatric nursing or General nursing. I look at psychiatric due to the entrance requirement is a bit easy and if I'm to go for it, I will study it to the bachelor level so that getting a job after graduation will not be difficult. I don't know if am wrong or right here. But still don't know how the job prospect will look like. As a new immigrant will I be able to get student loan? I'm just 4 months in Alberta PR and to start school by Sept. Any info will be very useful. Thanks.

So the BSN will be good then instead of the diploma. I don't like taking LPN becuse it will take more 3yrs to bridge but RPN is 2yrs.

I have search for the new government plans for healthcare but my search couldn't come up with some thing tangible. Could you please tell me more about it. Will it affect the LPNS or the RPNS.

Thanks for your response. But will the changes affect the diploma holders? Can one still use it as entry level to practice. I have gotten a seat at MacEwan but I will like to know if I can work with the diploma after graduation. I need a short program but not LPN. I am 41 with two children under 10. I plain to bridge to BSN that is easy through part time at U of A or continue with BSPN In MacEwan. But I am afraid that if I graduate with BSPN, I will only work in Psych unit. Is that true?

Hi every one, I'm happy to be in this forum. Please I need your advise. I am a new immigrant in Alberta and wanting to go in for nursing. Right now I'm confused on which program to go in for. Psychiatric diploma is 28 months while BSN is 4yrs. So I am thinking of going for Psych diploma and bridge to BSN later. Is there jobs for Psych graduate and what is there salary like for new graduate? Is there anyone in this field? Your opinions will help. Thanks a lot