Question about registration- Help please

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Aug 21, 2014

Everywhere else in the country you have to first register in the province or territory where you were educated and then transfer your registration. I wouldn't think NWT/NU would be any different. From their website:

Initial RN registration

1) Payment form. ($65.63 processing fee, just to get your file started. And $865.46 after approval from the registrar, we contact you before taking that payment)

2) Annual Form (2 pages says 2014 on it)

3) Registered Nurse Application form (2 pages has no date on it)

4) Copy of ID (passport, birth certificate, marriage certificate etc.)- passport is preferred

5) Verification from original jurisdiction (where you took your exam)- you contact your jurisdiction, they usually ask for a fee and they send us the verification directly.

That's pretty suggestive that you have to be registered where you took your exam.

Silverdragon102, BSN · Aug 21, 2014

who did you register with for you to have sat CRNE?

petras · Aug 21, 2014

Thanks for the quick responses. I took my exam in Yellowknife NWT an the results were sent back to CNO. I am currently working under a temporary licence in the NWT.

Does this change anything?

joanna73, BSN, RN · Aug 21, 2014

No it doesn't. The CNO will still need to forward documentation to NWT if you were educated in ON.

Silverdragon102, BSN · Aug 21, 2014

So you must have registered with CNO to be able to sit the exam. As Joanna says CNO will still need to forward documentation. This is required by all provincial colleges when moving between provinces etc

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Aug 21, 2014

Just to clarify... If CNO is the regulatory body under which you applied for and wrote the CRNE, then you must take out your initial registration with CNO before you can register in any other province. The fact that you wrote in YK doesn't have any effect, because anyone can obtain permission to write the exam in another province or territory but the fact remains that they received authorization to write the exam from a single regulatory body. The regulatory body in each province is responsible for ensuring the currency and thoroughness of nursing education in that province and are thereby guaranteeing that people who write the CRNE under their jurisdiction (no matter where they physically write the exam) have met the requirements for registration IN THAT PROVINCE. So, you wrote the exam under the CNO and must first register with them. Once you've done that, you apply for registration in NT and request verification from CNO that you're registered with them. They forward the verification, NT processes your application and you then are registered in NT. Once you have your NT registration all safe and tied up with a bow, you can cancel your registration with CNO and get some of your money back.

petras · Aug 22, 2014

I totally understand what you're saying janfrn and thank you for taking so much time to explain everything. I guess my big issue is that I don't see why I need to spend $230 to register with CNO when I'm not even working there. I wrote a national exam and simply did my schooling in Ontario.

Does it not make sense that CNO just simply send my test results that I passed the CRNE and verification that I completed my schooling in Ontario to RNA NT/NU. From there I can then get registered in the NWT?

(others in the forum mentioned similar thoughts to what I'm thinking)

I feel that I am clearly way over thinking this

I do want to say thank you to everyone participating in helping me figure/straighten this out. I tend to be.. very particular if you can't tell already.

joanna73, BSN, RN · Aug 22, 2014

I'm also from ON, never worked there, and like you, paid to register. That's the process in place for all candidates, whether we like it or not.

Wherever you've been educated, you must register so that the documentation can be proven and traced. It's to prevent fraud and people slipping through the system....a measure that protects the public.

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Aug 22, 2014

joanna73 brings up a couple of good points... fraud and protecting the public. That's the major role of our regulatory bodies, to protect the public by verifying and validating the competence of those they register.

As an aside, you'd be even LESS happy if you'd written through CARNA and had to pay them $567 to register. For 2002, I registered in Manitoba on December 1, 2001 then had my registration verified by CRNM, paid to register in Alberta at the end of August so I could start my new job at the beginning of September and then paid CARNA again in September because the registration year here ends September 30th. THREE registration fees in 10 months. :eek:

llaurin · Aug 26, 2014

It might work differently in different provinces but I'll give you the information I have based on my experience.

I graduated in 2012 from Alberta and moved to Ontario. I never paid the registration fees in Alberta (CARNA), not even for the temporary license although looking back on it, it might have made things a little easier. I registered with the CNO for my temporary license and wrote the exam in Ontario as I had moved already. I did get my exam results from CARNA as I had registered for the exam through them (completely different from actually registering with them for any type of license). I then had to contact CARNA and pay a fee for them to forward my results to the CNO along with other paperwork that the CNO asked for. I only ever paid to be registered in Ontario where I actually lived and worked despite the fact that I graduated from a different province. The CNO did take their sweet time processing my paperwork and I wonder to this day if the process would have been faster had I taken my temporary license in Alberta prior to moving.

I hope this helps and I wish you the best of luck starting out your nursing career!