PRACTISE IN CANADA
To practise in Canada as a qualified nurse from overseas, you must be registered. All Registered Nurses (RN), Registered Practical Nurses (RPN) and Nurse Practitioners (NP) are members of the college of nurses of a particular province. As a nurse, you are required to evidence that you successfully completed a nursing course intended to prepare you for the category of nursing (RN, RPN, or NP) that you would like to practise in one of the provinces in Canada. In most cases, this will be an approved Canadian university degree in nursing. Your nursing education will be assessed to determine whether it meets the knowledge, skill and judgement required to practise in the province of your choice. This is done at the particular province after NNAS must have completed an initial evaluation of your transcript. You will be able to write the registration exam if your education is found without any gaps and you meet the required nursing knowledge, skill and judgment, when compared to a Canadian approved nursing program.
Vision Nursing Recruitment will assist and represent you after your consent has been solicited. We will guide you to make sure you are making the right application so that your application is not sent back thereby causing long delays. We chase your application up and facilitate a quick assessment and response.
If an assessment identifies competency gaps, then you may be required to either go through additional assessment or to complete an additional education so that you can address those gaps. In this case we will provide you with the necessary advice to complete an external evaluation and how to go about it in order to achieve success. We will advise on the structure of this test and how to better prepare for it. We will also assist you to make sure your assessment was right.
In some areas, you will need to sit a competence assessment to enable the gabs in your education to be identified before completing an outside evaluation. The evaluation will involve an Objective and Structured Clinical Examination, interviews and a short multiple choice exam. Successfully passing this evaluation will lead to the candidate’s eligibility to write the registration exam.
Vision Nursing Recruitment will guide all her candidates on the best ways and resources available to prepare for these two assessments.
“After completing my nursing course, I was awarded a diploma that permits me to practise as a registered nurse in my country. Am I qualified to practise in Canada with my diploma?”
The nursing program of each country can differ from one country to another. Although you might have completed a nursing education that allows you to practise in your country of origin or resident country, there is no guarantee that it will be equivalent to a nursing education that meets the requirements of the Canadian National Nursing Assessment Service and the board of the province you intend to practise. For this reason most nurses who did not study in Canada are advised to take undertake a supplementary assessment before writing the registration exam.
At Vision Nursing Recruitment, we get our candidates prepared all through the way until they become registered. We also give guidance to visa requirements. We search and secure a suitable accommodation even before our candidates fly in to Canada. We guide our candidates to secure a job after passing the national exam.
To begin the process with us, all nurses must register and pass the IELTS Academic module. The minimum required language proficiency test score is:
Speaking 7.0, Listening 7.5, Reading 6.5, Writing 7.5 and an OVERALL of 7.0