Question about Quebec

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Hello Everyone.

I'm an American currently finishing my prerequisites for nursing school in the US (hopefully will start in the Summer of 2004), more specifically New York City. There's a possibility that my husband's company will transfer him to their location in Quebec City. My question is, would I be required to learn French if I were to work there, and what would the possibility of finding a job be in that province. I went to hospitalhotsoup.com, and when I put in information for Quebec City, nothing came up.

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hello, if you are going to quebec city.. definitely you will have to know how to speak french. if you will be in montreal... you can get away w/ the basic french for health care workers, although that also depends on the hospital; its still generally recomended that you know french. good luck.

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I thought the website was http://www.hospitalsoup.com , not http://www.hospitalhotsoup.com/

I went to the site. The problem is you need to enter just "Quebec" and not include city. Quebec city is how us anglos refer to it and not its proper name. Jeffrey Hale's Hospital centre sounds like an English workplace.

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Thank you for the replies. It was hospitalsoup.com, I just messed up what I wrote. I will check out Jeffrey Hale Hospital if we move there. I guess the upside to moving there would be an opportunity to learn French. :)

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i could be very wrong, but i believe that to practice nursing anywhere in quebec, one is required to pass a functional french exam, which includes reading comprehension, writing in and speaking french. that is how it was when we lived there back in the 80's and i can't imagine that it has changed. a quick google search on licensing requirements sent me to the oiiq (provincial nursing association) which is entirely in french, with no option for viewing in english. it explains the need for taking "l'examen de l'office de la langue francaise", and includes a link to the website for "l'office", which is also entirely in french. one site suggested that if one is from another country and french is the second language, a four-year grace period may be allowed provided that one furnishes proof of attendance in french classes, but that this may change. when we lived there the province provided free french classes for unilingual "other" language speakers but only those from other countries!!!!!!! if you were an anglophone from another canadian province, you had to pay. that would be one compelling reason why i am unilingual anglophone and that my children were educated in english in quebec via a loophole for children of federal employees. the whole language issue is such a boil on the backside of canadian politics.

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I nursed in Quebec and can give you some info if you would like. PM me anytime.

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Hi, I am not sure about Quebec city (which is more French speaking then Montreal), but Montreal anglophone hospitals' staff barely speaks any french. There is a Quebec nursing order where you'll have to register in order to practice here, they also provide nurses/nursing students with little dictionnaries of medical terms. On this web site http://www.oiiq.org/ (which is unfortunately in French only) you'll find the info about your situation as a Nurse who is coming from other country, equivalencies, temporary permit, immigration. Anyway, it's - 26C over here at the moment...... :bluecry1: :)brrrrrrr...... Good luck!

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do you know any person who recently took the french exam? i will be required to take it in september and trying to get as much details about that test as possible-thanks for help-DD.

Thank you for the replies. It was hospitalsoup.com, I just messed up what I wrote. I will check out Jeffrey Hale Hospital if we move there. I guess the upside to moving there would be an opportunity to learn French. :)
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