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Thank you for providing an alternative view. I did move from a medical unit to ICU and I found the working conditions much better. Part of the reason is because the ICU manager does an excellent job. However I also found myself frustrated by many ...

I think you are focusing too much on French and not enough on finding a job. Your best chances are with an English speaking hospital in Montreal such as Montreal General or Jewish Hospital. There are also agencies that can find work for you in nurs...

By now you probably should be getting a provisional work license but it probably take until next spring for them to allow you to take the full exam. The French language requirement is nonsense in the sense that you have 4 years to pass those exams, ...

I guess I am late to respond but this may help others. In a casual position the employer does not have to pay benefits and gets to try out your competence without committment. Personally I insisted on a full time position when I entered the BC nurs...

I have worked in both places. Stay away from Montreal. Quebec has an enormous public debt and no money for health or anything else. There is corruption at every level of government (see the Mafia investigations and resignation of the mayors of Mon...

I would say that working a hospital in Montreal is challenging and will get worse both because there is an enormous budget deficit and because there is governmental corruption at all levels. The only place you might find relieve is if you transfer t...

PQ is Province of Quebec (sometimes QC). Don't confuse BA with BS. As with EE, you need to work towards a BS, specifically nursing. Forget about anything less, it would make you second class for the rest of your career. All provinces are moving t...

Here is a current article which supports my experience of finding the cost of living in Montreal high. Quebec Could Soon Be Poorest Province

Realistically, I have not found Quebec cheap at all living there the last 2.5 years. I guess it all depends on the specific expenditures that you want to focus on. Take the yearly nursing license fees for instance. I think that they are about 175$ ...

Amy, I think you will find that the pay is lower in Quebec and the provincial income tax is quite a bit higher. You will be able to get a temporary Quebec nursing license based on your Ontario license. It will remain temporary for up to 4 years unt...

My own experience last year was not at all bad. I needed to move from Montreal to BC, but I opted to look for a job in Surrey which is only about 25 Km south of Vancouver. Vancouver is easily reached by Skytrain. I had a couple of years of hospita...

I have found that Amazon.com (USA) is much faster that the Canadian one, possibly because USA mail is generally faster as well. However, you should also look into Amazon UK.

In the USA you should be working towards a Bachelor of SCIENCE in Nursing, not another BA! I did and the OIIQ had no problem certifying my degree (it took 6 months and lots of paperwork). The Quebec exam is only once a year, so it could take you up...

Some of the information above is not accurate. I say this as an RN with a BSN in the USA and current license in one USA state and two diverse Canadian provinces. In some US states and some Canadian provinces (Quebec for example) you can get an RN l...

My citizenship is not Canadian and the country in which I was educated is neither Canada nor the country of my birth. I have had a "limited" Quebec license for a couple of years because I have not pushed myself to learn French. I applied to the CR...

That was not my experience. I am a male and a couple of years ago I graduated at the top of my class of about 48 (also about 10% male).

You need to ask yourself whether you are doing it for your kids or for yourself due to midlife crisis. Somehow you all have been managing so far, and in 6 more years your youngest will be out of the nest, so unless you stop working and rush through ...

I also feel that males are favored a bit more. I don't deny that I am competent and nurses are in high demand, but I have always been given an offer for every job for which I have applied. I also think doctors are a bit less hard on male nurses. I...

I work in a major hospital. We only have RNs and CNAs. However I have also worked in a nursing home where they have RNs, LPNs and CNAs.

Unfortnately it is even worse than I describe. I limited myself to the hospital environment. However, in my province 2 million people have no family doctor because there are not enough of them. Patients can try to go to clinics or ER rooms if they...

I'm not making excuses, I am stating facts. In an ideal world all health care would be free and there would be enough staff to cater to all of the patients' physical and emotional needs. Every hospital would have the latest machines, an unlimited s...

Where I work there is no staff available to cater to modesty. I insert and remove urinary catheters all day on men and women. My colleagues are equally busy and we have no time to drag each other around just to stand and watch based on gender prefe...

MGH operates in English. That does not mean that occasionally you will not run into patients or their family who will try to get you to speak French. I have never quite figured out why they chose an English speaking hospital in the first place. On...

If you are looking for English colleges you can go to Varnier or Dawson or John Abbot (colleges are called CEGEP here). You can also easily Google CEGEP for French speaking ones. Most have the winter break schedules posted. You will have to apply for...

gender discrimination is illegal, period. it does not matter whether the person being discriminated against is male or female. the fact that your workplace selectively discriminates only against male nurses and not male doctors makes it worse. con...