Nursing in Canada..

[picugal75]

I'm new here and finding it rather confusing to find my way around here and to post in the appropriate forum! I have several questions about nursing in Canada and found a lot of interesting posts but was unable to find where to start a new thread. Please move this to wherever its supposed to be. Thank you!

I am just starting the process of looking into moving to Canada. My background is slightly complicated. I'm Irish but I trained in the UK. I graduated in 1988 and have been working full-time since then so almost 21 years experience. The last ten has been PICU. I have been in the U.S since 1995 and have dual Irish/U.S citizenship. I am now looking at moving to Canada and have some questions. I have no family in Canada so location is undecided at this point. I am thinking Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and possibly Toronto. Does anyone have any information on PICU's in those cities? I work in a very busy 24 bedded PICU in a children's hospital in California at present. We have cardiac, trauma and everything else inbetween. I have worked in several PICU's all over the U.S so am used to moving. I am single so the ability to be able to buy a house on a salary is important. I would appreciate any help or suggestions that you could give. Also apart from Vanvouver I have not been to the other cities. I realise its cold up there but how much snow and blizzards are we really talking about particularly in Edmonton or Calgary? Thank you.

[NotReady4PrimeTime, RN]

Amen, sister!!

They're doing this valve replacement in the cath lab from what the Peterborough paper said, so she could easily be back to school on he first day.