Calm over urgency
PrepBoard will never use scarcity, countdowns, or 'act now' copy. The journey is already stressful — your dashboard shouldn't be. One next thing, always.
POur story · The Human Practice
We started PrepBoard because the existing path treated internationally educated nurses like a queue — not like clinicians.
PrepBoard is run by a small team of former IENs, Canadian-licensed RNs, and immigration practitioners. We built the platform we wished we'd had — calm, organised, and human.
The Canadian healthcare system needs internationally educated nurses. The path to register, however, was built like an obstacle course. PrepBoard is our small effort to make it feel like a hand reaching back.— Founders' note · 2024
01Principles
6 things we hold ourselves to.
If you ever feel one of these slipping, write to us. The founders read every email.
Plain language, no jargon
Acronyms get explained the first time we meet them. 'NNAS Advisory Report' doesn't mean anything until we've translated it into what it actually does.
You are a clinician, not a beginner
You've been a nurse for years. Our content respects that. We rebuild your knowledge for the Canadian context — we don't teach you nursing from scratch.
Honest about limits
If we can't help you — wrong specialty, wrong jurisdiction, wrong moment — we'll tell you and refer you. We'd rather lose a sale than waste your year.
Tutors are named, not anonymous
Every tutor and advisor on PrepBoard has a name, a face, and credentials we can verify. No bots in disguise. No outsourced AI marking.
The cohort is the medicine
The single biggest predictor of passing isn't solo grit — it's having other IENs at the same table. That's why every plan includes the cohort.
02The story
How a WhatsApp group became a platform.
A WhatsApp group of seven nurses
Kim, an IEN from Manila, started a WhatsApp group to share NNAS notes and IELTS resources. Within six months, the group had 280 nurses asking the same questions in slightly different forms.
The pandemic broke the path
Embassy slowdowns, NNAS backlogs, and provincial hiring sprints made everything more confusing — and more urgent. The group ran weekly Zoom calls just to keep filings unstuck.
PrepBoard, properly
With three Canadian-licensed RN co-founders and a former IRCC officer, PrepBoard registered as a formal training provider, hired tutors, and opened its first cohort of 24.
1,402 nurses, 9 provinces
PrepBoard has supported nurses from 38 countries across all 9 NNAS-eligible provinces. Most of the team is itself made up of former PrepBoard students — that's not a metric we ever planned to track, but it's the one we're proudest of.
03The team
Real people. Real licences. Real names.
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Kim Reyes
Co-founder · RN, BScN
Acute care 12 yrs. Registered with CNO. Originally trained in Manila.
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Aisha Mensah
Co-founder · RN, MN
Public health, Toronto. Leads tutor training. From Accra by way of Ottawa.
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Daniel Krause
Co-founder · ex-IRCC
Twelve years inside Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
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Maria Santiago
Pharmacology lead · RN
NCLEX tutor since 2017. ICU background. Ontario-licensed.
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James Liu
IELTS lead · MA Linguistics
Ten years of IELTS examiner experience. BC-licensed RN.
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Lola Adebayo
Filing advisor
Walks every nurse through their NNAS file. Speaks 3 languages.
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Priya Iyer
Community lead
Runs the WhatsApp + cohort calls. PrepBoard alumna, class of '23.
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22 more tutors
RNs across 9 provinces
From Edmonton to Halifax. We hire heavily from our alumni.
04Where we work
The shape of the practice.
1,402Nurses supported across all PrepBoard programmes since 2023.
38Source countries our students trained in, from Manila to Mumbai to Lagos.
9Canadian provinces our alumni currently practise in.
92%First-attempt NCLEX-RN pass rate across the last six cohorts, as of 2026-Q1.
Come and meet us.
PrepBoard hosts a free open house on the first Saturday of every month. Tutors, founders, and current cohort students drop in. No sales pitch — just questions and tea.