Bridge to Canadian Nursing

Internationally Educated Nurses (IENs) who wish to bring their world of knowledge to the Canadian workforce can make the transition smoothly with Mount Royal University’s Bridge to Canadian Nursing (BCN) Program. The BCN Program provides the support and resources for you to:

• Enhance your professional communication.
• Build your knowledge and practice skills.
• Strengthen your clinical and ethical reasoning.
• Bridge to Canadian nursing practice.

Developed specifically for you

The Substantially Equivalent Competency (SEC) assessment helps to determine the educational courses you need to bridge your knowledge and nursing practice skills with those required for Canadian nursing practice. The College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CARNA) will have identified specific courses to help you prepare for the Canadian Registered Nurses Examination (CRNE). The BCN Program will help you “bridge” the differences between your previous nursing experience and Canadian practices in areas such as:

• Professional communication skills for nurses
• Professional nursing in Canada
• Health alterations and therapeutics
• Health assessment
• Professional nursing skills
• Clinical reasoning skills
• Nursing theory
• Nursing clinical practice in a medical/surgical environment

Real world experience

The BCN program includes a supervised, 193 hour clinical practicum for those required by CARNA to have nursing practice experience in a Canadian healthcare setting. You will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills in an acute care medical or surgical setting. This real world experience will assist you in preparing for the CRNE and providing safe, competent nursing care in Canadian health care settings.