One of the three types of nursing in Canada

There are three types of nursing care if you are planning a career in nursing in the Canada:

 

Graduate nurse, LPN

Nurse, RN

Psychiatric nurse, RPN

In
Canada, all nursing professions are regulated in the public interest,
and it must pass a licensing exam to register for the practice of
nursing as a career.

Nursing education for each of these types of nursing has components curriculum common to some specialized components. However, the duration of the training of nursing varies and each category has a field of activity.

Nurse graduate

The nurse has 1-2 years of study at a community college or a post-secondary private training Institute. They
are in the scope of nursing practice that is contained entirely within
the practice of a nurse and can not work with clients who are or complex
that they require various interventions.

In Ontario and other provinces, he is called a nurse licensed and this is abbreviated as NPR. This can be confusing since a psychiatric nurse is also abbreviated as RPN in the Western provinces. In
many provinces IAA does not have been used fully for many years and the
number of nurses who are engaged in the profession of nurse decreased
dramatically. Due to pressure by the budgetary
restrictions and the shortage of nurses, which is very acute, the nurse
is now in demand again in the provinces where they can legally practice.

Psychiatric nurses

Schools
that prepare nurses to psychiatric nursing are limited to the four
provinces of Western British Colombia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and
Manitoba. There are more than 5,000 nurses and psychiatric nurses registered with the regulatory authorities in these four provinces.

Psychiatric
nursing is not recognized as a type of nursing separated in the
provinces of East and perhaps for this reason that they call nurses
(LPNS) auxiliary RPN. This term may not be in the provinces of the West because it has already used for psychiatric nurses.