An Unexpected Week Off

Unfortunately Sophie had some bad news recently when she found out that she had failed the CRNE nursing exam and had missed out by only 2 marks! She was obviously devastated and really disappointed, and immediately applied to re-write the exam in February. Well as this was at the forefront of her mind she totally forgot that her current nursing permit was due for renewal on the 1st of december. To cut a long story short, this wasn't as easy to renew as the person from CARNA had made out and without her permit she has been unable to work.

Thankfully she was able to gather the required documentation and have it couriered to their office in Edmonton in the hope that it arrives by the end of the week. She has had a difficult few weeks with her nursing and all the problems she has had to face and the last few days wasn't helped by the fact that she went to attend a refresher course in life support, only to be told that all the previous courses she has done in the UK don't count here in Canada, so she has to redo all her basic life support training, not something that she really didn't want to hear after the week she had just had!

There is a prep course available for the exam in February but it cost nearly $800 for three days and that doesn't include travel or accommodation so that isn't really an option. But she now has more of an insight to the exam format (something that is completely different to the UK) and can now work her revision around that information.