Any Nurse from Toronto, ON who has done NGG program before: please help me out!!

[Kevin2020]

Hello everyone,

I have a few questions to ask today. Currently, I finished my BScN program, and will write my NCLEX sometime later this year. I live in East Toronto, so both Scarborough Health Network & Michael Garron Hospitals are my closeby hospitals. I commute by public transit as I don't have a car of my own.

My questions are related to the New Graduate Guarantee (NGG) program:

1. At either of these hospitals, if you did do a NGG program, how was your overall experience?
2. Lets say your mentor wasn't that great, were you able to switch mentors?
3. At SHN, let's say I wanted to work in General/Centenary sites, can I do my NGG at both?
4. Can I request specific units at these hospitals? I don't prefer to be in a float/NRT pool
5. How does the rotation of units work? Is it like 1 unit for a specific month, then you move to next?
6. What were the ongoing professional development training opportunities you received while in the NGG program?
7. How was the interview? What were some examples of questions they asked, what should I focus on?
8. Do you recommend the NGG at your hospital? How were the staff, work-culture?
9. Is the pay the same as the new RN's salary?
10. What are other NGG programs in Toronto that nurses would recommend?

I look forward to hearing from anyone

[Kevin2020]

bump?!

 

[Khow89]

I think alot of your questions are very specific and I think you'll get the best answers if you were to ask them in your interview. I think your main focus would be applying to the hospitals you would want to work at and not to worry about the small details until you get the interview.

[Missha]

My bf did NGG at SHN during 2021. He was on a medicine unit, I think the mentorship was only a couple of months before he was on his own and working full time. I can't remember if it was a 3 month or 6 month program, but I remember he didn't have a mentor after a month or two and after the program was done he transferred to regular full time staff. He was mainly at general site, I believe. I can't really remember, he's since completed the program and successfully applied for another unit. We actually live close to birchmount site and he asked for that location, but they didn't put him there. I applied to SHN at the same time as him as well, but for a part time position, even so, during interview they tried to offer me NGG... In medicine. I think most of the NGGs are on medicine units since they have the highest turnovers. My bf mentioned that it of the 4 that were hired into the NGG with him, 2 had dropped out before it finished.  Just think of it as getting your foot in the door, you can always apply to another Dept as internal staff once you successfully complete the NGG.

[Jacknursehk]

Missha said:

My bf did NGG at SHN during 2021. He was on a medicine unit, I think the mentorship was only a couple of months before he was on his own and working full time. I can't remember if it was a 3 month or 6 month program, but I remember he didn't have a mentor after a month or two and after the program was done he transferred to regular full time staff. He was mainly at general site, I believe. I can't really remember, he's since completed the program and successfully applied for another unit. We actually live close to birchmount site and he asked for that location, but they didn't put him there. I applied to SHN at the same time as him as well, but for a part time position, even so, during interview they tried to offer me NGG... In medicine. I think most of the NGGs are on medicine units since they have the highest turnovers. My bf mentioned that it of the 4 that were hired into the NGG with him, 2 had dropped out before it finished.  Just think of it as getting your foot in the door, you can always apply to another Dept as internal staff once you successfully complete the NGG.

 

Missha said:

My bf did NGG at SHN during 2021. He was on a medicine unit, I think the mentorship was only a couple of months before he was on his own and working full time. I can't remember if it was a 3 month or 6 month program, but I remember he didn't have a mentor after a month or two and after the program was done he transferred to regular full time staff. He was mainly at general site, I believe. I can't really remember, he's since completed the program and successfully applied for another unit. We actually live close to birchmount site and he asked for that location, but they didn't put him there. I applied to SHN at the same time as him as well, but for a part time position, even so, during interview they tried to offer me NGG... In medicine. I think most of the NGGs are on medicine units since they have the highest turnovers. My bf mentioned that it of the 4 that were hired into the NGG with him, 2 had dropped out before it finished.  Just think of it as getting your foot in the door, you can always apply to another Dept as internal staff once you successfully complete the NGG.

Hi there, I am an international nurse. I just got an interview for NGG in SHN. Would you mind sharing about how the situation is like there for such a high turnover rates? Thanks in advance 

[Missha]

 

Jacknursehk said:

 

Hi there, I am an international nurse. I just got an interview for NGG in SHN. Would you mind sharing about how the situation is like there for such a high turnover rates? Thanks in advance 

Medicine units are busy. And they usually assign the "harder" patients to the new staff. Harder meaning the patients that are more work, heavy and usually total care. Usually there's turnover because people find other jobs that are less demanding for the same rate

[Jacknursehk]

Missha said:

 

Medicine units are busy. And they usually assign the "harder" patients to the new staff. Harder meaning the patients that are more work, heavy and usually total care. Usually there's turnover because people find other jobs that are less demanding for the same rate

Thx for your reply. So how's the nurse patient ratio there? And do they get full time employment after the NGG program ends? Thanks in advance