Hello!

As someone who works in Edmonton let me assure you that there are scads of vacancies in ICUs all over the city. As of April 1 of this year, graduate nurses (those who have not passed the CRNE yet) are paid $28.18 an hour straight time with shift differentials of $2.50 an hour for evening hours, $4.25 for night hours and $2.75 an hour for weekends. Once the nurse has her registration in hand her hourly basic rate of pay goes to $30.80. If you can document the number of hours you have worked as an RN in a manner that is acceptable to your employer, you will be placed on the pay scale on the rung that equates to your years of work experience as a full tim equivalent. So if you've worked all 10 of the years you've been qualified at a full time position and can prove it, you would go to $40.43 an hour immediately upon receiving your registration. Plus differentials of course. If the employer makes a change to your schedule without giving you 14 days notice of the change, you will be paid double time. I had just such a change made to my schedule and my gross earnings for today were $982 for a 12 hour shift.