RPN Registration from Ontario to Manitoba?

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Sep 20, 2007

In Manitoba, as well as in most of the country outside of Ontario, RPNs are registered psychiatric nurses, and I'm guessing you know that. You can look at the College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Manitoba (there's a mouthful!) website for a lot of good information about licensing requirements and the process. http://www.clpnm.ca/content/ Is he going to Shilo? There are several places in the area that use LPNs, including Brandon General Hospital, Carberry Health Centre, Baldur Hospital, Glenboro Health Centre and a few others, plus most personal care homes. There are lots of places to visit and things to do there in the summer. Good luck.

LaurenC · Sep 21, 2007

Wow, it was so helpful to get a reply so quickly- thank you so much for your help! Yes, we found out today he will be going to Shilo at the end of October until 2010. I'm still studying full time in Toronto, but hopefully we're able to work something out for the summer months at least! I see you specialize in ped oncology- I have an interest in completing my RN consolidation in this area- have you ever considered becoming a preceptor? :)

Thanks again,

Lauren

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Sep 21, 2007

I'm actually not working in peds oncology except in a round about way these days. It's a very interesting area though, and the learning curve is pretty steep. But it's so worthwhile! And I am a preceptor, I have a nice little lapel pin that says so... However, I don't live in Manitoba any more. We lived in Shilo for a year, 1986-87; it's an interesting place, and the people are great. Then we moved to Winnipeg on a compassionate transfer. I trained in Winnipeg after our son's health was sorted out and worked at Women's and at Children's for 7 years before moving to Alberta to work at the U of A in the PICU. We see our share of oncology patients, mostly brain tumours, but lately we've had a few hematologic cancers and a couple of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytoses. (How's that for alphabet soup?) If you can handle the emotional stress of it, oncology is a fine specialty.