Internationally Educated Health Professionals at Kwantlen University

10/18/2023

Join us for an Info Session about a FREE course for Internationally Educated Nurses in Spring 2024!

The Info Session will take place using Zoom on Tuesday, October 24th @ 12:00 noon.

Our popular PCIEN is back thanks to special funding from the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills.

Introduction to Professional Communication for Internationally Educated Nurses (PCIEN) is a unique course that is team-taught by an ELS faculty member alongside an instructor from the Faculty of Health.

During this 13-week program, you will have a chance to practice your professional communication skills with standardized patients (actors) who are trained to help with your communication goals.

If you are an internationally educated nurse who wants to practice in Canada, this course is for you! It is tuition-free, and it will run on the Surrey campus two times a week.

Visit the link in our bio for more information!

06/07/2019

We have a free professional communications course for Internationally Educated Nurses starting on September 9, 2019. This highly regarded program is team-taught by an English instructor and a nursing instructor. See our website for more information about the course and the entry requirements.

PCIEN is a performance-based course designed to assist internationally educated nurses improve communication for entry into professional practice; expand health and idiomatic vocabulary; and increase understanding of culturally expected behaviours of the Canadian health care system. Internationally....

12/17/2018

If you are a pre-licensure IEN looking to improve your professional communication skills, you can sign up for a tuition free course at our Surrey campus. KPU will be running an evening section of PCIEN (Professional Communication for Internationally Educated Nurses) starting in mid-January 2019.

This hugely successful course is team-taught by an English Language Studies instructor along with an instructor from Nursing. Over 9 weeks, you will be introduced to strategies to help improve your workplace speaking, listening and writing skills.

Participants will have the opportunity to interview 5 different Standardized Patients, and you will receive detailed feedback along the way.

The official flyer has been attached below. For more information, send an email to our office at: [email protected]

01/31/2017

If you're an Internationally Educated Nurse, there will be an information session about KPU's GNIE program this March. https://connect.kpu.ca/events/eventRegistration.do;jsessionid=C54B25EDD1D1A647A1A1E5A24B7BA905?eventRegistrationAction=registration&stringEventID=MjM5

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04/27/2016

Our PCIEN and IEHP courses are currently not available. However, we will keep you informed if further funding becomes available. Fingers crossed!

04/06/2016

Here's a message from Barb Lindstrom at Skills Connect:

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Good Morning! Just providing an update. I am happy to report that I am still working with Skills Connect at Douglas College as a Health Career Consultant. Our new short extension, that will run from April - September 2016 is up and running and we are now holding information sessions and registering new clients.

Eligibility is as follows:
- PR status (not live in caregiver or Canadian Citizens
- not on or have been on EI
- health related degree plus 3 years related work experience
- CLB 6 or equivalent (expired IELTS general or academic ok for entry)

Please call our program assistant at 604-588-7772 to apply. We have a limited number of spots available but there is still room so don't delay if you are interested or know someone who is.

PS thank you for the referrals so far. I have lots of RN's registered and am looking forward to working with them!

Barb
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03/09/2016

Are you an internationally educated health professional living in BC? Make sure that you sign up for support from Skills Connect. Their funding has just been extended until September 30, 2016 (for new clients). If you know of anyone who might be interested please have them call 604-588-7772 to register for an information session.

Thanks to Barb Lindstrom for sharing this information earlier!

http://www.skillsconnect.ca/seeking-employment/healthcare-sector

01/21/2016

Here's an official news report about the hiring of more nurses in BC:
http://globalnews.ca/news/2464211/b-c-to-hire-1600-nurses-by-the-end-of-march/

B.C. government is going ahead with the plan to hire more than 1,600 nurses by the end of March, a promise officials made three years ago.

01/06/2016

Happy New Year! Our Surrey class got off to a successful start last night. There was a great buzz in the air as our IENs shared their stories.

There are just a couple more spots available for the course starting on January 11th on our Richmond campus. Find our contact information on our website at:
http://www.kpu.ca/aca/els/pcien

PCIEN is a performance-based course designed to assist internationally educated nurses improve communication for entry into professional practice; expand health and idiomatic vocabulary; and increase understanding of culturally expected behaviours of the Canadian health care system.

12/22/2015

Seats still available for our January courses called Professional Communication for Internationally Educated Nurses (PCIEN). See http://www.kpu.ca/aca/els/pcien for more information.

PCIEN is a performance-based course designed to assist internationally educated nurses improve communication for entry into professional practice; expand health and idiomatic vocabulary; and increase understanding of culturally expected behaviours of the Canadian health care system.