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thank you:)

I unfortunately cannot relocate since I moved here to be with my boyfriend and my family is only 6 hrs away driving distance in the states. I know the pay here is low compared to other territories. I think my next plan is to look into working for an agency and possibly do some part time work back at home in the states. I'm going to have to do some research.

Yes, that is exactly why:) We will get punished and we have seen it done.

Yes, my hospital is unionized but I really don't want to push this in this direction. I know of some people recently who tried to illicit changes for the better only to fail. There are a lot of politics on this unit that I'm seeing are very ugly. There is an extremely high turn over rate here and 2 nurses just flat out quit their positions on this unit in the last 2 weeks due to some issues relating to how things overate unfavorably for nurses on this floor. I think at this point, the only thing to do is to search for another unit at this point. Thank you for your input:)

Hi there, I am originally a nurse from the united states, a year ago I moved to Montreal where I work in one of the English operating hospitals. I have worked here for over a year a have had a bad experience. Don't get me wrong, the people I work with are amazing, it is true team work. But the working conditions are very bad compared to my other jobs I held in the States. Some of the issues: there is only one orderly for an entire unit, we usualy have to do everything ourselves; I am literally doing the job of a CNA and a nurse with a higher patient load. also, I only have half a break of what I'm entitled to get and it's so busy that we often have to work 30-45 minutes past our shift (we don't get payed for this time). Further we have to come in at least a half hour early (for free) just so that we can perform safe nursing care or otherwise I would leave even later. On top of this, we are literally running around the entire time, charting maybe consists of 30 minutes of the time. I have never worked as hard as this before. Many times when I come home my legs are swollen and I have ruptured blood vessels from being on my feet so intensely and so long. I was warned that Canadian nursing was not like the Sates. But maybe I'm just on a wrong unit or the wrong hospital? I'm just curious about other people's experiences or maybe recommendations for other working situations here in Montreal for someone like me with very basic French. Thanks!

i just found out today that i passed!! However, i am sooo surprised, i have no idea how that happened after guessing on like 90% of the test, but i'm glad it's over!! I still feel kind of shaky because it took such an emotional toll on me for two days. Good luck to everyone else, It seems that if it shuts off at 75 it's a good sign

I just took the test today and of course got 75 questions like everyone here, and I feel like I failed 100% My school has been preparing us for these tests with Hssi and ATI computer exams all though school and I always did really well on them, usually like in the 90th percentile. But I was not prepared for this, the nxlex was like from another planet!! I really did guess on the majority of it and the majority of my questions were very hard. The thing is that i only had one math question which i know i got right, but only one? The strange thing also is that my questions started out hard and fluctuated though out the test, but toward the end I got pretty easy questions which I think is a bad sign:( Well, I'll let you know how I did, but I'll be very surprised if I passed.