Moving to montreal from tx-taking the professional exam soon

I live in Quebec, and 13 miles from my house is Newport Vermont, where I work. There is an acute care hospital with a 6 bed ICU, several nursing homes in a 20 mile radius, a large prison with a 25 member nursing staff, a large home health agency that serves a 60 to 70 mile radius. Plenty of jobs available. Much higher pay than working in Canada.

Hello....dunno if you still get on here...I am US trained FNP from Texas moving to Vancouver BC. Have to prepare for OSCE exam. Any leads on book to prepare for this (Nurse Practitioners?) and any knowledge on if NP practice is widely accepted there? Very few jobs online like you would find all over US. Any contacts, info would really help.

Canada has been slow to accept and embrace the NP role in health care. Responsibility for health care in Canada is a federally-legislated but provincially-administered proposition, so each province has slightly different approaches to things. The physician world has only very reluctantly ceded some of their territory to NPs and so there are at this time not that many jobs for NPs. What few there are outside of hospitals are typically in remote communities. The BC government has only permitted registration through CRNBC for NPs since August 2005. For information on BC's NPs you can look here:
http://www.crnbc.ca/downloads/424.pdf (standards)
http://www.crnbc.ca/downloads/452.pdf (registration requirements)
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P3-1074629491.html (certified practices)
http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/ndirect/np.html (government information)

Sorry I can't help you with resources for the exam.

Thanks a lot, I well follow up with those websites. What is remote areas?

About 70% of Canada's population is found within 3-500 miles from the US border. The farther away one gets from the border, the sparser the population and the more challenging the climate and terrain. A significant number of people living in remote areas are First Nations and their living conditions are often quite primitive. You might want to read this thread, where I've had a similar conversation with another nurse from south of the 49th: http://allnurses.com/canadian-nurses...ng-432993.html

Dont think remote/rural is for me...got 2 young kids....I will stick with Vancouver and hope these olympics will improve their economy...got to fine a nice community health setting.....average pay or 2yr APRN ...family practice...anyone got any ideas?

I wouldn't put all my eggs in THAT basket. The cost overruns on these Olympics have created what will likely be a huge deficit situation for both the city and the province. Calgary's hosting of the 1988 Winter Olympics was said to have resulted in a profit, but a forensic audit revealed some very suspect bookkeeping practices and the actual costs were difficult to pin down. The 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal left that city with a now-rarely-used white elephant of a stadium still referred to a generation later as "The Big Owe".

The City of Vancouver says there won't be any Olympic-sized profits coming from the troubled Olympic Village in False Creek.
The project — once forecast to yield millions of dollars in profit — is instead mired in multimillion-dollar cost overruns, according to a consultant's report released Tuesday...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-col...-overruns.html

The two main candidates for the mayor of Vancouver expressed differing opinions about who will be on the hook for cost overruns at the Olympic athletes’ village. Gregor Robertson of Vision Vancouver and Peter Ladner of the Non-Partisan Association (NPA) discussed the extra $60 million for the $1 billion southeast False Creek development in the lead up to the Nov. 15 municipal election...

http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id30942


If you've CURRENTLY got 2 years of experience as an APRN then you'd be starting off in 2011 at somewhere around $84,000 a year plus benefits, give or take. If you're only going to be at the 2 year mark in 2011 then it'll be more like $77,400 a year plus benefits. This is based the salary for a Level Four RN on the current collective agreement the BC Nurses' Union has with the province; NPs are excluded from collective bargaining through BCNU by the provincial government, meaning that their salaries and benefits are subject to shrewd negotiations by the NP herself in order to achieve the best compensation.

Interesting....this IS going to be an uphill battle....thanks...and housing is soo expensive compared to Dallas TX! I will have 2 years experience by then...will prepare for the worst and hope for the best.