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can anyone tell me , the lists of good hospitals, i mean good facilities, friendly working environment, good salary and organized emergency dept. or as a hospital as a whole in greater vancouver and fraser valley like new westminster, abbotsford, burnaby etc. please give me more info.

thanks

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can anyone tell me , the lists of good hospitals, i mean good facilities, friendly working environment, good salary and organized emergency dept. or as a hospital as a whole in greater vancouver and fraser valley like new westminster, abbotsford, burnaby etc. please give me more info.

thanks

Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, MSA Hospital in Abbotsford, Burnaby General in Burnaby all are in the Fraser Health Authority. All salaries are the same as all nurses working in hospitals are part of the BC Nurses Union. http://www.fraserhealth.ca/Home/Default.htm is the FHA website.

The Health Authority for the hospitals in and around Vancouver is Vancouver Coastal Health, http://www.vch.ca/

Hope this helps.

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thanks s and t... i have another question, which hospital in fraser health would you recommend to work with? and why?

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It would really depend on where your interests lie and where you are planning to live. There are 12 hospitals in this health authority. RCH is a tertiary care center, so it will have all specialities. Surrey Memorial Hospital is large as well, but does not do neurosurgery (to my knowledge), and its been a couple of years since I worked there. But it is has the third busiest ER in Canada if you are interested in that. Other hospitals as Fraser Canyon in Hope, Mission Memorial in Mission, and Delta Hospital are small without the 'backups' as RTs, 24 hr lab and radiology, and specialties, so patients are frequently transferred by ambulance to the larger facilities.

Hope- Fraser Canyon

Chilliwack- Chilliwack General

Abbotsford - MSA Hospital

Mission -Mission Memorial

Langley - Langley Memorial

Surrey-Surrey Memorial

White Rock - Peach Arch Hospital

Delta - Delta Hospital

New Westminister - Royal Columbian

Burnaby-Burnaby General

Port Moody/Coquitlam - Eagle Ridge Hospital

Maple Ridge - Ridge Meadows

If you check on the website, it will tell you the number of beds in each.

One thing I forgot to mention, is you will need to check into registration with the College of Registered Nurses of BC....no registration, no work!

http://www.crnbc.ca/

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Specializes in Acute Medicine/ Palliative.

MSA (abby) is a great hospital-overall, but old. We are getting a new hospital in 2008. (It is currently being built). They have a busy emerg dept, not crazy busy but it can get hopin. AS I said overall its great. THe staff there are really nice. I have worked in a few more, but as another poster mentioined , it denpends on your interests. hope this helped a bit

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thanks bex,

im currently an emergency nurse in the uk and i would like to work in bc, i'll be having an interview from fraser health soon.... i heard good things from abby, how about royal columbian? is it also a good hospital? how about other places like surrey, langley. burnaby, maple ridge, coquitlam? do you know anything about this hospitals? i don't know anybody from canada that's why im getting more info. thanks..

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