Being a RN in Quebec Canada

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I live in Michigan so canada is not that far. I hear that Quebec is a nice place to live and I would like to work as an RN there once I graduate from nursing school. Is it hard to get a job as a RN out there?

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How fluent is your French? Could you pass a written exam, care a for a franco-phone patient and document your care in French?

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Nope, I don't speak any french.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.

Well, if you want to practice nursing in Canada you'd better find a way to get fluent fairly quickly. That's one thing that is NOT negotiable in Quebec. They'll give you time to pass their language exams but you'll have to pass them. You might want to read the following threads:

https://allnurses.com/canadian-nurses/moving-montreal-tx-76122.html

https://allnurses.com/canadian-nurses/where-work-montreal-319059.html

https://allnurses.com/canadian-nurses/please-need-specifics-277696.html

https://allnurses.com/canadian-nurses/nursing-in-quebec-10077.html

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Specializes in Gerontology.

Yep - you must be fluent in French to work in Quebec.

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Specializes in CCU.

Not only I am fluent, I am French! I moved in region where there is a hospital 1 hour south and another one 1 hour north. I HAVE THE HARDEST TIME TO GET HIRED! Believe it or not! With a "virgin file", I have been a preceptor in my old ICU, I am never late, competent, blablabla but none of the hospital is calling me back, despite numerous message left from me, one of them told me: I was just going to call you to let you know that:"We will not retain your candidacy"!

They could not even give me a reason why! I am totally stunned of the way I have been treated so far... and getting stressed because I now have only 2 chances to sit for the board exam (originally, we have 2 years to sit for the exam, but I applied 1 year before moving back to Quebec so, lost that one year) or I will have to reapply and that is a story of it's own!

Brace yourself with courage, be paper ready, go to the city if you want work and variety in your field.

You will have to be hired by a hospital, complete a "Integration program" on a med-surg floor then be call by the board to pass the exam, I think that you have 1 or 2 year to pass the French exam.

Contact the O.I.I.Q. to start with, they will guide you! Good luck!

Hope we all find work in Quebec!

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