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Hi all!I am originally from Iran, where I was an RN for 15 years...Then, I moved to Canada in 2009 and settled in NB, where I got licensed as an LPN and found full time work at a nursing home.NB wanted me to jump through too many hoops to get my RN license, so I decided to make a move to Toronto.I have been in Toronto for 1 year now, and already transferred my LPN / RPN license. I have sent out my CV to hundreds of places, but still cannot get one call for an interview.I am registered with 1 agency and usually get called a couple of times a week, but I cannot survive on working so little. Do any of you know any good agencies as well?Does anyone have any idea on how I can get into a nursing home or hospital full time?I will be writing my RN exam in May 2014, so for now I need RPN work.Happy new year!
Let me clarify. In general, HFO has not been hiring new grads. Ontario promised 70 percent of new grads would be hired, and that number is not even close. Many of the grads who were hired with HFO did not have positions at the end.
You are one of the fortunate ones. I wonder if those 6 RNS will end up actually staying in the facility. In 2009 we were told not to expect that program to continue due to funding.
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RPNs are having it just as bad to the west of Hamilton (London, K+W, guelph, Cambridge etc...) and st joe's and HHS seem to list a constant stream of RN jobs admittedly i'm not looking to see if they are casual or permanent RPN jobs are listed less often and I would imagine that they like RN jobs go to internal candidates first. Nursing across all areas are hard to get, New grad positions tend to only get posted if they have someone lined up so its a con in my eyes. I wish you the best, i've only managed a casual job and even then they changed the contract on me from signing to finished orientation!