any nurses here for quebec ..pls share ur experience re: registration, exams..

lilaclover6984 · Dec 4, 2013

pls share ur experience here..and also what type of job can we apply while waiting for our registrations because i heard it takes couple of months..

Question to the OP, are you fluent in French?

07genona · Dec 14, 2013

no, im not but im learning the basics and im staying in montreal. i heard they offer some free french classes. i just knew one nurse there who are already given temporary license as an RN. but nurses should pass the french exam with in 4 yrs to have a fulltime license.which i heard is very difficult. But all things are possible if u put ur mind and heart into it..

honorio · Jan 3, 2014

Hello..im from the philippines and already submitted my files for qsw... i finished bs in nursing in the philippines and have a 4 year hospital experience.. i dnt have any french background but im planning to enroll in a french language class here... does anybody have the same status that i have? Pls share...

honorio · Feb 12, 2014

Are you a student that went to school in Quebec or have to moved there from some where else?

Hey..do u already have ur flyt schedule for quebec..u said u are leaving this year. Hows ur application?

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Feb 12, 2014

Hey..do u already have ur flyt schedule for quebec..u said u are leaving this year. Hows ur application?

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You have to be aware that Canada is making very significant changes to immigration law, making it much harder for people to gain permanent residency and citizenship. There are also big changes being made to the Temporary Foreign Worker program. While Québec likes to think it's a sovereign nation it isn't, and federal regulations will prevail over any of their local regulations. As for passing the French exam, I've lived in Québec for a good part of my life, am married to someone who was born and raised in Québec in French, have two completely bilingual children and took French lessons all the way through school but I know I could NOT pass the exam. It won't be as easy as putting your mind and heart into it.

honorio · Feb 12, 2014

Thank you janfrn

uRNmyway, ASN, RN · Feb 12, 2014

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You have to be aware that Canada is making very significant changes to immigration law, making it much harder for people to gain permanent residency and citizenship. There are also big changes being made to the Temporary Foreign Worker program. While Québec likes to think it's a sovereign nation it isn't, and federal regulations will prevail over any of their local regulations. As for passing the French exam, I've lived in Québec for a good part of my life, am married to someone who was born and raised in Québec in French, have two completely bilingual children and took French lessons all the way through school but I know I could NOT pass the exam. It won't be as easy as putting your mind and heart into it.

Jan, I had no idea you were also from Quebec!! Not too many of us on here!

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Feb 12, 2014

I'm not actually from Québec (born in eastern Ontario) and I don't live there any more, but I did spend a good portion of my life there. As an anglophone Canadian, I found that I was treated quite differently, even in Montréal. My French isn't good enough to take part in or follow a conversation, although I can always get the gist of it. I can't imagine how much harder it would be for someone with so-so English skills and no French skills to live and work in Québec, especially in health care where the technical lingo is so much different.

uRNmyway, ASN, RN · Feb 13, 2014

I'm not actually from Québec (born in eastern Ontario) and I don't live there any more but I did spend a good portion of my life there. As an anglophone Canadian, I found that I was treated quite differently, even in Montréal. My French isn't good enough to take part in or follow a conversation, although I can always get the gist of it. I can't imagine how much harder it would be for someone with so-so English skills and no French skills to live and work in Québec, especially in health care where the technical lingo is so much different.[/quote']
I completely agree with you. I'm actually ESL, but completed all my education in English. When I started working in French hospitals in Montreal, it was such an adaptation to relearn all the terminology and lingo as you say.
I was just kinda proud to see that you were more or less from my neck of the woods, especially given how amazingly bright and informative you are. Speaking as a French Canadian, it seems that Quebec is not usually known in most parts for producing, well, intelligence lol. Maybe it's the fact you are actually from Ontario. That must be it.

07genona · Feb 16, 2014

thank you so much guys for all the inputs.... i'll be travelling this spring, lets see how it goes ..im not reallly sure what to expect in quebec but i'll give it a try and see for myself...

navi73 · Feb 22, 2014

hello everyone, i m from india and planning to apply for qsw programme bt i heard so many negative comments about this programme.can anybody guide me

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · Feb 22, 2014

navi73, prepare yourself for an uphill struggle to get licensed, to find work, to feel like you fit in unless you're completely FLUENT in French. If you're not, shop keepers, bank employees, restaurant servers and many others will sneer at you, your patients might insist you speak French to them whether they understand English or not and every bill, sign and other documents will be unreadable because they're all in French. At least that has been my experience.