Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses in Quebec

Directory only: registration with a nursing regulator is required in every province and territory, and Quebec's is the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec. Quebec's process differs from the rest of the country, including its registration examination, so nothing from the other routes carries over. Ask the Ordre.

What Employment and Social Development Canada publishes about the employment requirements for this occupation, nationally. A national statement is not a provincial requirement, and only the body above can say what applies to you here.

• Completion of a university, college or other approved registered nursing program is required.
• Registration with a regulatory body is required in all provinces and territories.
• Additional academic training or experience is required to specialize in a specific area of nursing.
• Completion of a university or college registered psychiatric nursing program is required.
• Registration with a regulatory body is required in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon.
• A master's or doctoral degree in nursing is usually required for clinical nurse specialists, clinical nurses, nursing consultants and nursing researchers.

• Foreign Credential Recognition Tool (Job Bank) (Employment and Social Development Canada): Check whether your occupation is regulated or compulsory where you plan to work, and find the regulatory authority to contact. This is the official lookup, province by province.
• Foreign credential recognition (Employment and Social Development Canada): What credential recognition is, which occupations are regulated, and the programs that help with it.
• Get your education credentials assessed (Express Entry) (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada): IRCC’s own page on the assessment it accepts for an application, who may issue one, and how long it stays valid.
• Ellis Chart: designated trades in Canada (Employment and Social Development Canada with the Canadian Council of Directors of Apprenticeship): Every designated trade, where certification is compulsory, and which trades carry the Red Seal endorsement. The chart itself, including the trades we did not match to this occupation.
• Red Seal trades (Employment and Social Development Canada with the Canadian Council of Directors of Apprenticeship): The 54 trades with a Red Seal endorsement, which lets a certified tradesperson work in another province without being certified again.

This is not a complete directory of regulated occupations in Canada. A pathway becomes public only when one of our lawyers publishes it, which they may do only where every mandatory requirement on it rests on an excerpt from the regulator’s own page: publishing records the lawyer’s name and the day, so there are occupations and provinces we simply have not reached. Where we have not, we say so and send you to the official lookup and to the regulator itself, which are the places that can answer for your case in any event.