Nursing Program - A Double-Take

E

ersa3

New member
Jul 10, 2005
0
0
0
Toronto, ON
Hello,

A few years ago, I completed 2 years and a few months of a nursing program. A situation out of my control led me to leave the city I was living in/studying in, and start my life over again. I wish to complete the program, but as per policy, the universities/colleges in Ontario do not accept transfer students, so basically I have to start over. Perhaps it was not ‘meant to be’, but I feel as I lost much time, energy and money, attempting to achieve my dream.

Would you go back to school to start a program of studies over again?

Is the current health care system both in Ontario and at the federal level worth it for me to make all these efforts to helping people?

Your advice would be much appreciated. Many thanks.
 
I was looking into transfer credit for a friend but it wasn't for nursing. Not sure how much of the 2 years you can salvage.
http://www.centennialcollege.ca/future/iti.jsp

Few of my relatives switch to part-time nursing, as they can work when they want to with aging nurses, it's no problem picking up shifts & the hours. They can travel & work when they want to.

Good luck.
 
yup, go back. I know too many people who dont go back when they have the opportunity, simply cuz they feel too old or like not doing the school thing anymore. In the end they've been regretting it for years. Why live like that. just go back. Besides Ontario is desperate for nurses.
 
School / Work

Thank you. In addition, a few days ago I was offered a full-time position with a great company, with eventual possibility for advancement (not related to the health care field). I have to decide either I go ahead with the offer that was proposed to me or go ahead with the continuation of my studies on a full-time basis, as the 'Basic' RN Program is offered on a F/T basis only.
 
Last edited:
You have had enough of an education to know if you would like to be a nurse. A number of friends of mine are married to nurses, and it is a very rewarding career. It can be extremely stressful.

Go back to school. Get the degree. Work for a couple of years in Toronto as a nurse, and then you will see that you have the opportunity to see the world. Ontario trained nurses are in demand in the US as well as the Middle East and even parts of the EU.
 
If nursing is your passion then go for it ! Starting over again is a minor set back in the system. Sometimes you push more forward when you have to start over. Like for me I have to start back high school and finish my grade 12 then I can apply to the Midwife program at Ryerson, I was a bit annoyed that I have to start back further in high school then I expected but since I went threw high school the first time and did not have the emotional power to stick with it the first because of things i could not control, now I am more in the driver seat to go for round 2.

So I will finish later then I planned, not every plan goes as it suppose to it's just a guidline of what could happen if you did not have any interuptions of daily life. and not everything in life you can control, but being a midwife is something I really have a passion to do, and I really see myself doing that for a long term career for my life. Starting over is not always a bad thing, sometimes you need to step back and go back in again with a fresh head.

My grandma, mom, aunts, and cousins are in nursing but I was not interested in following thier foot steps, I wanted a career that would be my own. Growing up I am always told how we need more nurses it was pretty much the biggest convention they would have at the dinner table, but they would always push that they did not want me and my sister to be nurses. which is fine. Me and my sister found passions we both want and to have as our own, I am going for the midwife and my sister is trying to be a doctor she is away at school in the states.

I am not going to be a nurse going to be a midwife, giving women the power and knowledge to deliever thier babies natrually, and be there for the first 3 to 6 months of thier babies life to help them along, and who knows maybe travel around the world to third world counties.
 
Don't give up on the transfer credits either. Universities like to say no without considering the issue, but if you take the time to go and speak to the admissions officer at the nursing school you want to go to, you may be able to change their minds. If you meet and demonstrate your maturity and capability, they might advance you. They essentially have no firm rules, they can do whatever they feel like.
 
Listen to C Dick's advice. Do not accept that runaround about having to redo all your 2+ years of basic nursing studies. My guess is that this is just the preliminary pompousness of a couple of Ontario universities you may have contacted.

There are many regionally accredited (i.e., the American gold standard) US schools which will definitely accept your Canadian transfer credits, toward a Bachelor of Nursing degree. And I would imagine there are Canadian schools who will, also. Keep trying.

Moreover, I would wager you could do all except the practicum portion of the nursing degree via distance learning over the Internet. Check out Laurentian U. in Sudbury, for starters. I believe many working Canadian registered nurses do DL courses through them to upgrade to the bachelor's degree.

Also, speak to the Ontario College of Nurses about all this. They should be only too happy to advise you about credentialling and transfer credits, what with the nursing shortage.

But please don't repeat academically what you don't have to repeat! Life is short and annoying enough as it is....

Good luck!
 
I'm rereading your opening post, and I find a big "however" to my above response: namely, you don't tell us how many years have intervened since your prior nursing studies. ("A few years," you say.)

Each university may set differing standards here for transferring old credits, especially in an ever-changing field like nursing. If those credits are not recent, you might indeed have to repeat them. But I would still fight for some of them: basic anatomy and chemistry, for example, should hold up for several years.

You have to push a bit with these school programs, or play one off against another. But that's more fun than repeating schoolwork.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Ashley Madison
Toronto Escorts
Top Bottom
Back