Internationally Educated Applicants – Resources

Below you will find useful information about immigration and settlement services available through the Canadian and Manitoba governments and information on nursing jobs in Manitoba. Please refer any questions about immigration or jobs to the appropriate agency. CRNM has no additional information regarding immigration issues.

• Immigration & Multiculturalism
• Provincial Nominee Immigration Program For Skilled Workers
• Settle Manitoba
  Settle Manitoba is Manitoba's immigrant information portal. It is a user-friendly Internet based resource for new immigrants to Manitoba. The goal of this portal is to provide new immigrants with easy to locate, accurate and up-to-date information. Settle Manitoba has identified and organized information from different local resources about language, employment and credential recognition, education and professional development, settlement and other resources. The information available in Settle Manitoba can be used as a one stop resource for the independent new settler. It can also be used to supplement services.
• The Immigrant Toolbox
  The Immigrant Toolbox is a Manitoba resource. The goal of this project is to help those who are helping immigrants access the tools they need to work in their chosen field. Most of this information is already online. Their goal is to bring together all of these resources into one central location.

• Manitoba Health - Nursing Careers
• Manitoba Health - Health in Manitoba

• Local and Provincial Service Providers
  These are local and provincial organizations that provide a wide variety of services, such as ESL and educational services, employment services, settlement services, and more, to new immigrants in Manitoba.

• Test of English as a Foreign Language
  The TOEFL program provides English proficiency testing services for international students planning to study in the United States, Canada or other countries where English is the language of instruction. CRNM only accepts the Internet based version of the TOEFL.
• IELTS
  IELTS is the International English Language Testing System which tests English proficiency across the globe.
• Canadian English Language Benchmark Assessment for Nurses
  The Canadian English Language Benchmark Assessment for Nurses (CELBAN) was designed to assess, within a nursing context, the communication skills of internationally educated nurses whose native language is not English.
• Michigan English Language Battery (MELAB)
  The MELAB is designed to measure proficiency in the four basic language skill areas: writing, listening, reading and speaking. The entire MELAB takes between 2.5 to 3.5 hours.

• Nursing Picture Dictionary Tutorial
• Practice Situations available from the Mount Royal University Internationally Educated Nurses Assessment
• Clinical Judgement Scenerio Example
• Triple Jump Assessment Example

• Citizenship and Immigration Canada
  The Federal Government's immigration website.
• Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials
• Canadian Nurses Association LeaRN Canadian Registered Nurses Examination (CRNE) Readiness Test