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I have a full time permanent position in the department I'm interested in. I decided to wait until I wrote my NCLEX to apply to jobs and found a job after 3 weeks of applying. All my friends have found full time jobs in downtown Toronto hospitals (which is what they wanted) within a month of applying. A few of my friends also had jobs lined up before graduating but that's more rare. I think there are probably people in my class who had more trouble with finding a job but I'm not friends with them so I don't know what circumstances they had. I do have one friend who kept postponing writing the NCLEX and didn't write it until 6 months after we graduated and she also found a full time job on a unit she likes within a month of applying.

I don't really know enough about the York program but I completed the UofT program. I really enjoyed the program, and found the faculty very supportive and kind. I also felt like I had good placements and my classmates also enjoyed their placements. I found the classes pretty fair and expectations were clear. Another positive aspect of UofT is it has more resources if you're interested in things like graduate studies, research, interprofessional quality improvement initiatives. I think you might get more exposure to these things at UofT, but having never gone to another school it's hard to for me to make an objective comparison.

@bjames if you get into UofT I would go to UofT. I'm not sure if rent is a problem for you but all my placements have been really good and my clinical instructors have all been excellent. 1. everyone in the program has at least finished their bachelor's and everyone's entering at the same time. I'm not sure about Mac but I know at Queens everyone just joins in in 3rd year so most of the class would be younger and have known each other for 2 years. Whereas at UofT everyone's starting at the same time so it's easy to make friends 2. good research opportunities. there were a lot of summer research projects available 3. good placements. Most of our class got their first two choices for consolidation. Which is really great if you want to work at Sickkids, emergency, ICU, public health or L&D during consolidation. I would say most people who wanted those fields got those fields 4. supportive faculty that want you to succeed. I have never seen faculty be so accommodating, although that said I did my undergrad at UofT which is notoriously uncaring.

I am trying to come up with a SMART goal (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timely) for my nursing care plan. The patient has fluid overload as evidenced by ascites, edema, etc but low blood pressure (92/50). We're supposed to have 1 smart goal and 3 evidence based nursing interventions. The interventions I found from papers are 1. positioning 2. monitor ins and outs 3. daily weights. For the SMART goal I am thinking the patient has a negative ins-and-outs (more liquid out than in since she has fluid overload), no increase in edema, or no increase in discomfort from fluid overload at the end of my shift vs. the beginning but I'm not sure if these are all related to the interventions I found also I can only choose one goal. Suggestions?

I currently go to UofT for nursing and I just wanted to hopefully answer some questions. I think UofT gave out acceptances on April 1st last year, but most people got them on April 6th. I got mine at the end of April though. As for GPA from asking my friends everyone had a 3.7 or higher in the last year, but that said I also don't know anyone who had a 3.7 who got rejected (I had two friends who applied but didn't get in but their GPA was lower). The lowest I know of, of the people in my program said she a 78% average but that might be an exception, but then again I also didn't ask a lot of people. I just asked a few friends because one of my friends is applying this year and wanted to know. And lastly, the outlook of jobs in nursing is really not good and there are layoffs and freezing of nursing jobs/replacing RNs with RPNs, so if you weren't sure about nursing, not getting in and finding a different career path isn't bad. Also during clinicals, I have noticed most nurses are from York and Ryerson and Centennial and UOIT or some other school, including our clinical instructors, so if you don't get into Western/McMaster/UofT which I think have higher cutoffs, I don't think it actually affects your job prospects.

Wait where do you go to school Helena? In our school it is nearly impossible to fail clinical and the CIs really make sure you pass.

Hi relizabeth, I was wondering what the job prospects are like for a newly graduated nurse? In particular in Toronto if you know.

I just logged onto OUAC and found out I got offers from UofT and Queen's last week! I had an offer from Trent in February. I am picking UofT since I don't want to move. For those curious I have a 3.92 GPA in my last year 3.7 in my last two years and 3.4 cGPA. Graduating this year from UofT. I don't have any hospital volunteering but I got my fourth year project supervisor to write me reference and my department head (who I know) to write the other reference letter. My extracurricular were lab, student union executive, and choir. Best of luck to everyone else still waiting!