Whitehorse

muffie, RN · May 3, 2007

it's cold !!!! :lol2:

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · May 3, 2007

Yeah, it's cold! I don't know much about the hospital other than we get a few kids we transport from there every year... one in particular who just seems to like it in our unit much better than at home!

Check out this document... it has a lot of very interesting information in it and it should be able to tell you about pay scales and northern allowance: http://www.nursesunion.mb.ca/pdf%20files/CFNU_ContComp(4-17-07).pdf

Hope it helps.

Fiona59 · May 3, 2007

I met a couple of nurses from Yellowknife at Convention a couple of years back and they had only good things to say about their jobs and life up there. Guess its what you make of it.

But as Jan said, a lot of the patients from the far north are sent down to Edmonton for surgeries. We have a few of the surgical patients and high risk Mums down here now.

You'd really have to know what area of nursing you were interested in to see if it's up there..

jpoparty · May 3, 2007

Thank you for the article, I couldn't find anything on it regarding Yukon nurses and northern living allowance...it was definitely interesting to see the differences in pay among the provinces though!

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · May 4, 2007

I found a career posting for Whitehorse General Hospital at this site:

http://www.whitehorsehospital.ca/careerWithUs/ENindex.html

This is the location of the collective agreement between Whitehorse General Hospital and PIPSC.

http://portal.pipsc.ca/portal/page/portal/website/groups/wgh/wgh-collagree.en.pdf

Stanton General Hospital in Yellowknife pays a northern allowance of $2,302 per year and offers "full relocation reimbursement", whatever that encompasses. Does that help?

jpoparty · May 4, 2007

Thanks for the link, and yes it does help.

Pediatric Critical Care Columnist · May 4, 2007

I'm glad.

AirforceRN, RN · May 14, 2007

I went to the Whitehorse emerg a number of times with kids from a camp I was working at. The hospital looked new and clean and very modern. The staff in the emerg were always nice and professional.

Whitehorse in the winter is cold but in the summer it is beautiful. Shorts weather in the day, pants at night. Lots of hiking, kayaking, rock climbing, camping etc that you can do.

SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN · May 14, 2007

Wow, I would love to relocate way north. Good luck to you.