IEN-Jun

so sad and I agree

It's really insulting to IEN's to pay for an OSCE assessment:yes: What do you mean "I am resigned" . OSCE might be good for training program for the IENs to get familiar to the Canadian work environment, but it is silly as a further evaluation for the IENs. I think it is the way the CNO want their educational institutions own more students tuition fee. Everyone will be happy except our IENs!

You might be right. For the financial reason, the hospital and the nursing managers actually control their staffing to save the money. While the nursing leaders and researchers keep shouting to resolve nursing shortage for the safety of public, it might be true as well. You see that they had to live with a continuing nursing shortage. The shortage will became a resource or evidence to help their survive, such as the annual financial support for their educational institutions and research projects from the government to resolve nursing shortage and retention issues. Someone live on the someone's suffering, which depends on who has the power.

Because the institutions have the gap to understand the Canadian nursing content too. Do you agree that the NNAS and the Touchstone Institute should have attended training before they got the job offer from the CNO? I have 12 years clinical experience working as a RN and 12 years teaching experience working as a nursing lecturer, and the NNAS lists all competency gaps for my case. Jun

Hello, Kakeru, I was in the same frustration and thanks to share your comments on the OSCE. Yes, I agree that CNO might be lack of qualified staff to figure out the real gaps and then they sold out the duties to some business organizations like NNAS and the Touchstone Institute to do their jobs. I doubted whether the staff who gave us evaluation are professional qualified enough. How is your progress now? I like your insightful sharing, and maybe our IENs should raise a collective evidence to the CNO or the fairness commission. JH