Any idea how the nursing situation is in British Columbia?

[RNsteve]

5 years experience as a Registered Nurse, few years of long term care and several years in a acute medical unit out in Newfoundland.

Debating making a move in the next year, and BC makes sense due to family in the area.

Any experience/knowledge of how the market is? How the province is for nursing?

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

Moved to the Nursing in Canada forum

[Castiela]

Probably depends where you are looking in BC? I know specialty nurses tend to be short in the lower mainland

[dayandnight]

Specialty nurses-very very much in demand.

But whether it is short or not, the job process itself takes a long time to crack through unless you have a few years of specialty experience. Unless you have a job offer beforehand, I don'5 recommend moving. Plus housing and cost of living is very expensive so research that first. A lot of nurses I know here get hired into a hospital in Vancouver as a new grad but end up moving out of Vancouver once they get married and have kids due to the sheer cost of living

[dishes, BSN, RN]

Agree with companisbiki, try sending resumes to hospitals and LTCs that are located near to where your family lives in BC and see if you get any interviews. If they are short of experienced nurses and you can line up a few in-person interviews at the same time, you will get a better idea of the workplaces and your options.