Moving to montreal from tx-taking the professional exam soon

I don't think your girlfriend needs to learn french. Many hospitals, like Douglas and Jewish's mostly speak english and don't require that the nurses learn french. Second, learning french is VERY hard. It's much more difficult than english.

Thanks for the info. She probably won't learn french since she would only be there for 20 months, which is the length of my MBA program, if I get in. I am 26 and the average age is 29 so that is working against me... I am waiting for their decision.

Sorry to say you do need to pass the french exam to obtain your license as a previous poster mentioned, even if you work in an english language hospital such as the Douglas or the Jewish General. Another option for your fiancee would be to work in Burlington Vermont, just a 2 hour drive from Montreal. Then you wouldn't have to worry about work visas etc.

She can still, however, work the full twenty months in montreal without passing the french exam because they give you 3 tries to pass the french exam, each try being one year apart. She would work the entire time under the temporary license.
However, she may decide to take up french anyway and get her normal license should we decide to stay there permantently.

Given that there is still a large population of francophones who do end up in predominantly english speaking hospitals, she would be a a serious disadvantage without at least some rudimentary french. So yes technically she could practice as a 'graduate' nurse but may not find it so easy.

http://allnurses.com/forums/showthre...threadid=89930



I saw this yesterday and thought of you guys. I posted it in the news forum, but wanted to mention it here.

There are also two hospitals that are closer than Burlington-Northwestern Medical Center in Saint Albans, Vermont and CVPH in Plattsburg, Vermont. I know that CVPH actually actively recruits Canadian nurses on their website. They just opened an open heart surgery unit.

I think that CVPH would be an hour south of Montreal and Northwestern would be about an hour and a half south of Montreal.

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Hi! I read your note. I am from Gaspe, speaks French but got my nursing degree lin Buffalo. I am thinking sometimes to go back to Quebec City, to work in English (much easier language). Which US location is near Quebec city and in US. Where do you work? This could be the best place for me, I was just contemplating working in us and living in Qc. Do you work in the ICU too? Are you age How are the conditions? Here, I work 12 hrs shift, nites (loves it) For about 25 an hr. 2-3 pt load, very independant once knows the docs, now got VISICU... poor retirement.
Would like Qc to be near my folks. Talk to me!Any advice?

Hey! Thanks for the precious advice! I am from Quebec, living in the US for +10 years, got my RN degree here and thinking about going back to Quebec City. I wish working in a anglophone hospital, English is so nice to work with, but I realize that I would need to know the abbreviations and lab values, temps.... in French and metric.
Anyway someone could post a site or these infos? That would be helpful for a lot of us.
May be I should just work my 3 shift/week by the border. The money is probably better, but is it worthful to drive that long?
Anyone working at the brder of Quebec and US has advice?

If you are from Gaspe and want to be closer to home consider Maine as an option. Otherwise as mentioned previously Burlington, Vt and Plattsburgh NY are closer to Montreal than Quebec City. I am not aware of a predominantly English speaking hospital in Quebec City.