which province? advices pls.

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here's my situation, i'm a 21 year old filipino.i just graduated from nursing this march, and i also just passed the local board this june. i have no work experience (due to no job openings related to nursing) and i'm not yet continuing my education. i plan to work in canada, but i've learned that every province has to assess one's education before one can write the CRNE and work there as a nurse.

which leads to my 1st question, which province in canada, would most likely let me write the CRNE immediately after being assessed, without me having to undergo additional education?

i'd appreciate your responses...:D

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You can't make a decision based on that. Each application is assessed individually and you also need to decide where you want to live, what lifestyle you are after, finances etc No good applying to one province if you really want to work elsewhere

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The thing is the place i really want to work, requires me to study for a additional 2 years, and i dont have the finances to do so. I really need to work, and i need to find a province that will allow me to write the CRNE immediately after the assessment....

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Have you red the sticky at the top of the home page for this forum directed at IENs? Have you read the other posts where the CRNE and how the timeline goes have already been explored? First of all, there are only 3 sittings per year: February, June and October. The deadline for applications is 90 days before the examination date. The very earliest you could write would be February 2009. And that's assuming that your assessment meets all the standards. Depending on where you were educated, you could be cleared to write as soon as your assessment is completed, but another thing you have to realize is that there are literally thousands of people ahead of you in the queue waiting for their assessments. There really is no way to speed up the process. And since you're an IEN, you will have to pass an English exam before you can be given a work permit.

I know you're in the Philippines. Some provinces accept the education from there without much problem, while others are a little tougher. Since you're 21 years old and have no experience as a nurse, there may be roadblocks for you both with the assessment and gaining employment and there will be no way around that. Even people who aren't required to take additional education and who already have a job lined up are finding it takes between 6 and 9 months to get through the process. It will take as long as it takes and there is no back door.

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I have passed all my requirements as being a nurse in USA. I have passed my :nurse:CGFNS, IELTS and NCLEX and i'm under WESTWAYS staffing. I have also filed my i-140, I was the one who paid because i was told if I want to get my papers filed earlier I should do that. I have a choice of whether to wait when will Westways file it.but my dad will do everything to speed up the process if we have to pay for it so we've done it rather than keep on waiting. they filed my papers on May 2008 but now I'm losing my hope little by little because of retrogression, so Im planning to work in Canada right now even as a CNA because I don't have a job as a nurse here in our country because almost all the hospitals here are freeze-hiring...I have two application it's either in Canada or MAryland...what if i pursue my application in Maryland can I practice there my license as a nurse although I applied it in CA???and according to Suzzane there is no expiration for NClEX so how am I going to forward it to another state before it get detroyed and what about my application in CA if I WILL forward it to another state???Im really confused I dont know what to do..I cant contact my agency becaause their office is in CA and they dont even care to update me even through Emails...hayssss...:scrying:

anyway do you think its a good idea if I will just try another country like canada but ofcourse at first I will be a CNA there because I have to take the exam before I can practice as a nurse and they're gonna pay me only 12$ per hour somewhere in Alberta?would that be enough for my expenses??thanks for your time>>>>>>:no:

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Wow. It's really hard to know just what it is you want to know about. Your questions seem to wander all over the place.

If you're thinking you want to come to Canada you will need to start all over with the assessment process because Canada and the US don't have the same requirements. You need to choose a province, contact the College of Nursing and get an application package, gather up all your documents, start an immigration file and then wait. When your assessment is done and you know what you still have to do to get authorization to write the Canadian Registered Nurse Exam, you have to follow up on all of that. You have to pass an English exam too. There's a lot of stuff on the International forum's main page about all of this and if you read the posts there you'll get a fairly complete picture of what you're up against.

You might be given permission to work as a graduate nurse or an LPN in Alberta (the LPN thing is a concession to the fact that many schools in the Philippines don't meet the educational standards set by the College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta but they do meet the standards of the College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Alberta). Or you might have to start off as a CNA. No - $12 an hour is NOT enough to live on in Alberta.

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I have passed all my requirements as being a nurse in USA. I have passed my :nurse:CGFNS, IELTS and NCLEX and i'm under WESTWAYS staffing. I have also filed my i-140, I was the one who paid because i was told if I want to get my papers filed earlier I should do that. I have a choice of whether to wait when will Westways file it.but my dad will do everything to speed up the process if we have to pay for it so we've done it rather than keep on waiting. they filed my papers on May 2008 but now I'm losing my hope little by little because of retrogression, so Im planning to work in Canada right now even as a CNA because I don't have a job as a nurse here in our country because almost all the hospitals here are freeze-hiring...I have two application it's either in Canada or MAryland...what if i pursue my application in Maryland can I practice there my license as a nurse although I applied it in CA???and according to Suzzane there is no expiration for NClEX so how am I going to forward it to another state before it get detroyed and what about my application in CA if I WILL forward it to another state???Im really confused I dont know what to do..I cant contact my agency becaause their office is in CA and they dont even care to update me even through Emails...hayssss...:scrying:

anyway do you think its a good idea if I will just try another country like canada but ofcourse at first I will be a CNA there because I have to take the exam before I can practice as a nurse and they're gonna pay me only 12$ per hour somewhere in Alberta?would that be enough for my expenses??thanks for your time>>>>>>:no:

Hard to see what's what and I see previous poster has tried to answer. Regarding NCLEX and licensure if you do a search regarding California in the International forum there is much already written on this subject

Regarding Canada you have to decide where you want to live and apply to that province and meet requirements, at some stage you will then have to come to Canada to sit CRNE if not already here working. Some provinces will allow you to work in a limited capacity whilst waiting to sit CRNE. Suggest a good read and search in both this and the International forum

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what province in canada pays well or enough and has the best weather no matter what time of the year?

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

I think that will vary but most will have some element of long cold winters with either lots of snow or rain.

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A very narrow strip of BC along the Pacific coast has a temperate climate with little snow and mostly mild temperatures. BUT it rains a LOT! Many areas of BC have large amounts of snow and wind. After all, the 2010 Winter Olympics are being held there. Another thing to rememberabout the Sunshine Coast is that it is only sunny in the summer, and the cost of lving there is very high. I saw an ad for a tiny two bedroom house that was 60 years old in Vancouver that was listed for $1.128 million!! There are lots of mountains and ski resorts in dozens of towns; the season usually runs from mid-November to mid-April. The Interior (places like Kelowna, Kamloops, Merritt, Vernon, Barriere, Salmon Arm) have milder winter temperatures, but they still get a number of snow storms a year and the highways are often impassable. We went to Kamloops in mid-November a couple of years ago and there was already a lot of snow; driving was difficult already and the winter had only just started.

Some areas of southwestern Ontario are milder, but they too get a lot of snow, freezing rain and wind. Being surrounded by the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence River, they often experience the "lake effect" of high winds, heavy snow and blizzard conditions. The 401, the major highway there, is often a parking lot of stalled or frozen cars, and it's not uncommon to hear about 40 car pile-ups along there in the heavy snow or fog.

The rest of the country is cold and snowy for months of the year.

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The "warm" parts are expensive, and the cheap parts are cold. Better put on a warm sweater!

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The forecast overnight low for Saturday and Sunday here in Edmonton is 0 degrees C or 32F... freezing.

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