easterngal

We don't hire new grads anywhere in the hospital, all nurses must have at least 2 years experience. Currency conversion makes the starting wage about $19.00/hr for the ED nurses...........but the bonus is............TAX FREE & Housing included. :mad:

If you are interested in a year, rather than locums, MedHunters or Helen Zeigler in Toronto do a lot of recruiting in the middle east. They are ususally very up front and easy to deal with. L

Kate: Lots to see and do for a 25 year in all locations listed. >Vancouver..........big city......Three good sized ski hills within the Greater Vancouver Regional District. Whister and Blackcomb about a 2 hour drive from N. Van. Rains ALOT in the winter, but when it rains in the city, it snows in the hills.........and yes, it is a relatively safe city. >Kelowna is about a 4 hour drive to Vancouver - Great place for a single gal..........Kelowna is a party town. Great skiing in the winter, lakes in the summer.............gets hotter than the hubs of H*** in the summer. >Kamloops........yes they have an airport..........and a reasonably good social life for a single gal. Again, good skiing in the winter, and hot in the summer. >Cranbrook...a sleepy little town nestled in the moutains.........Good skiing, but not a nice drive to Calgary in the winter...........icy roads. >Invermere..........a bit of a vacation town...........lots of "summer folks", but sleey in the winter time. Have lived in the first three, and have had extended stays in the other two. Most places in BC would be ok to relocate to depending on what you are looking for.

We get a lot of patients with "emotional upset"........generally hyperventilating, and legless.....immediately need a wheelchair or they end up flopping on the floor. Two spectacular cases come to mind.... Precipitating factor for the first - His team lost the soccer match........ Precipitating factor for the second - Lost his wallet........

TWM and SG15: Just an old nurse's perspective - I have worked in North America from the shores of the Arctic Ocean to the Rio Grande and a few spots inbetween. I currently work in a 700+ bed facility in the middle east. Our nursing department has more than 50 nationalities, a real multinational environment. Nursing care is nursing care, no matter where you are. Standards may vary, policies may differ, cultural norms influence different aspects of the care, but all in all, the nursing care is the same. Patients still need care, no matter where you are.

first posting, and hopefully not the last.......... am a military brat, with no definite home town. trained in edmonton, and now have accumulated in excess of 25 years of experience in er, icu, ccu and clinical practitioner in the north. midlife crisis a few years back, and ended up in saudi arabia, only 400km from "half way around the world from home." now find myself as products and equipment coordinator in multicultural, multinational environment.