I don't know if some of you guys are actually familiar with Sprott-Shaw Community College.
Well, they opened a SSCC campus here in Phil and offers a RCA diploma course. I'm studying under that course and it will end by November this year.
I need answers to my following questions since they can't give us a concrete information as to what would happen to us after this program:
1. As RCA, is there any possibility for us to upgrade our status as LPN/RN when we reach Canada? ( taking into consideration that I'm a RN here in my country but doesn't have any hospital experience yet)
2. if "YES", how long is it going to take before we could actually sit in the CRNE and does being a RCA will be counted as experience?
I know guys you are going to ask me if why I didn't go straight and take the CRNE and practice RN? well, it's because I don't have any hospital experience yet and I can't afford to look for one in this current situation of Nursing Profession here in our country.
So, just a little information will be highly appreciated.
Thanks so much and more power to this site (it's very helpful indeed.)
okay can i just like butt in? so anyway, i am also enrolled in sprott-shaw's RCA diploma program...and this line particularly caught my attention, " what the people here are trying to say is: your means of pursuing a nursing career in Canada is on a wrong track."
isnt it that after our 2yr contract as an RCA, we are free to continue our nursing careeer? i mean like having taken this RCa thingy its like only as a stepping stone in going to Canada? but one thing that conerns me now is what the agency told my other friends, that we still have to have a working experience as an RCA here before the Canadian Embassy can even grant us a working visa. like isnt this training for 6mos enough? doesnt that make us eligable for the visa? quite frankly working as an RCA here in the philippines can get you nowhere. it couldnt even afford you a decent living. it sucks. like the school and the agency has different things to say and like we are caught in the middle. we've already paid so much to this program. i am also a Registered Nurse here in the philippines for like 3yrs now. i only enrolled in this RCA thingy because they said that if we wanted to go to Canada this was the safest and fastest legal way for us to take. are we wrong with our decision then?
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okay can i just like butt in? so anyway, i am also enrolled in sprott-shaw's RCA diploma program...and this line particularly caught my attention, " what the people here are trying to say is: your means of pursuing a nursing career in Canada is on a wrong track."
isnt it that after our 2yr contract as an RCA, we are free to continue our nursing careeer? i mean like having taken this RCa thingy its like only as a stepping stone in going to Canada? but one thing that conerns me now is what the agency told my other friends, that we still have to have a working experience as an RCA here before the Canadian Embassy can even grant us a working visa. like isnt this training for 6mos enough? doesnt that make us eligable for the visa? quite frankly working as an RCA here in the philippines can get you nowhere. it couldnt even afford you a decent living. it sucks. like the school and the agency has different things to say and like we are caught in the middle. we've already paid so much to this program. i am also a Registered Nurse here in the philippines for like 3yrs now. i only enrolled in this RCA thingy because they said that if we wanted to go to Canada this was the safest and fastest legal way for us to take. are we wrong with our decision then?
Here's what I mean about my recent comment. The thread starter posted that, maybe not directly, that s/he has plans of upgrading his/her RCA status to RPN/RN. But the truth is, if in your knowledge the RCA will eventually lead you to being an RN, and that having experience as a RCA will count towards nursing experience, then it's not. It may lead you to working in Canada, but not as a nurse. If you want to be a nurse, then you will do the same steps as those applying directly as nurse. You can be a nurse in Canada with or without that RCA training.
What I've been hearing and reading is, Canadian Immigration almost requires a work experience before being eligible for a working visa. We don't have RCA's in the Philippines, so it's not clear to me how you can get that experience. Education and experience are different criteria on the Canadian immigration point system. Also, Immigration and licensure/registration are two different cases.
I'm not saying that you are in the wrong decision on taking possible steps to work in Canada. BUT you maybe wrong in taking that step if you want to be a nurse there by doing the RCA first. Well, of course, if in time you were able to acquire a work visa as a RCA, you can apply there as nurse, but you'll be back to Step 1 for foreign nurses.
And I'm not sure if that RCA will fall under the Live-In Caregiver Programme. If indeed it is within the umbrella of that Programme, then being a nurse, as is, will qualify you for that. You don't even need that RCA training.
i maybe wrong with some of my points here. So it's still better to ask the authorities on this topic, and the opinion of those who already did this.
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If you are allready a nurse, you don't need any stepping stone of becoming a nurse in Canada, certainly not in a job that is not nursing as like an RN job. You don't need experience for a work permit, but you need an employer, and most employers prefer people with such, but experience as a nurse and nothing else, ok?
This agency is sucking money out of you, yes, it's a money maker scheme. I'm sorry that you believed them. They probably get you a job as a caregiver here in Canada, it's not well paid, your work permit will only allow you to work as a caregiver and you are not allowed further studying at a college or so, the work permit is very restricted.
If Canada is your dream country apply to a college of nursing/nursing association in the province where you want to work get your education assessed and go from there.
If you are allready a nurse, you don't need any stepping stone of becoming a nurse in Canada, certainly not in a job that is not nursing as like an RN job. You don't need experience for a work permit, but you need an employer, and most employers prefer people with such, but experience as a nurse and nothing else, ok?
This agency is sucking money out of you, yes, it's a money maker scheme. I'm sorry that you believed them. They probably get you a job as a caregiver here in Canada, it's not well paid, your work permit will only allow you to work as a caregiver and you are not allowed further studying at a college or so, the work permit is very restricted.
If Canada is your dream country apply to a college of nursing/nursing association in the province where you want to work get your education assessed and go from there.
Try to get work experience as a RN.
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Because we all know that if the course is completed and they somehow make it over as a "caregiver" we will then get the usual flood of posts about how demeaning the work is, how underpaid caregivers are, how it's unfair that additional studying is not permitted and how Canada is exploiting them because they are RNs back home.
Sorry to sound so cynical, but long time posters on the board have lived through theses cycles of posts before on "how to get into Canada the fast way and now they are abusing me".
For nurses the easiest way to gain entry is to apply directly to a College of RNs for educational assessment and go from there. There were a group of Phillipino nurses in BC who won themselves no friends who came as caregivers and then formed a very vocal group protesting the fact that they would have to have their English and nursing credentials meet Cdn. standards when they had already met US standards. They seemed to think the general public would support them in this and were upset when people felt they should meet Canadian standards.
oh gosh, but at the very least, is this RCA any good to us? in any way? okay so we may be dead wrong in thinking that we can upgrade our being RCA's to RN's if we ever get to go to Canada, that we still have to start from the very beginning of the process for foreign nurses.. but wouldnt this RCA thingy be able to get us to Canada? like well now, id love to believe that it can get us to Canada and land a job there. so even if we had to start from the very beginning of the process for foreign nurses, i daresay it will be quite ok so long as we are in Canada..
Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
oh gosh, but at the very least, is this RCA any good to us? in any way? okay so we may be dead wrong in thinking that we can upgrade our being RCA's to RN's if we ever get to go to Canada, that we still have to start from the very beginning of the process for foreign nurses.. but wouldnt this RCA thingy be able to get us to Canada? like well now, id love to believe that it can get us to Canada and land a job there. so even if we had to start from the very beginning of the process for foreign nurses, i daresay it will be quite ok so long as we are in Canada..
But if already a RN why go the RCA route when there are many nurses already from the Philippines going the RN route with the college of the province of choice and not the RCA route. It doesn't make sense to go through something that isn't necessary and only going to cost you more money
"But if already a RN why go the RCA route when there are many nurses already from the Philippines going the RN route with the college of the province of choice and not the RCA route." please enlighten me..how do they do it? thanks
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okay can i just like butt in? so anyway, i am also enrolled in sprott-shaw's RCA diploma program...and this line particularly caught my attention, " what the people here are trying to say is: your means of pursuing a nursing career in Canada is on a wrong track."
isnt it that after our 2yr contract as an RCA, we are free to continue our nursing careeer? i mean like having taken this RCa thingy its like only as a stepping stone in going to Canada? but one thing that conerns me now is what the agency told my other friends, that we still have to have a working experience as an RCA here before the Canadian Embassy can even grant us a working visa. like isnt this training for 6mos enough? doesnt that make us eligable for the visa? quite frankly working as an RCA here in the philippines can get you nowhere. it couldnt even afford you a decent living. it sucks. like the school and the agency has different things to say and like we are caught in the middle. we've already paid so much to this program. i am also a Registered Nurse here in the philippines for like 3yrs now. i only enrolled in this RCA thingy because they said that if we wanted to go to Canada this was the safest and fastest legal way for us to take. are we wrong with our decision then?