Thiking of working or emmigrating to Canada.
Have DipHE, ITU course, Teaching and Assessing, and have recently done ALS course. I am a G Grade Night Sister with 18 years ITU experience, being a Sister for 14 of those years.
I am hoping to go to Ontario and would be grateful for any advice/information about nursing in Canada. I already have the forms to register in Ontario. Is it right you only have two weeks holiday a year? What are the working conditions like, chances of further study, the hours etc? Is it true that there is a shortage?
Is it better to work for an Agency? Where is the best place to look for jobs or should I write to different hospitals and ask about vacancies?
Sorry about posting on this forum. You regulars must get fed up with the immigration/future work thing but I've had this on the 'nursing' forum and not received any answers yet. It would not be worth putting it in the immigration site as I need to talk to nurses already in Canada or who have had experience of working there in the past.

Another nursing question , just kidding :-) Yes the is a shortage of nurses, but there are still all those provincial regulated crap hoops to jump through.

Hi Balesy,
Just a quickie message. Have you thought about directing your questions to the college of nurses in Ontario directly. This might be your best bet.
Do not e-mail though, i'd be gob-smacked if you got a reply. Telephone directly, and be persistent! They love to refer you to an answermachine, and never return calls. Having said that, keep calling and getting names, eventually they do. Besides you might be lucky.
If you'd like i'd could always get you a few telephone numbers of local hospitals, and you could speak with human resources directly as well.
Getting it straight from the horses mouth then so to speak.
I'm in South west Ontario though, so this might not be the area your looking for.
Wish I could help you more, but then I'm sure you know my predicament. If there anything I can do though, feel free.
I thought there were a few more nurses here, hopefully they'll reply with a little bit more in-house information.
Sorry, that's the best I can do. All the best though.

Hi Mick,

Where is this picture of in canada?

Sher

We don't do quickies in here, its all the way or nothing :-) Love the nurses to bits. Lets hear it for the nurses that look after folks ;

Ah....someone will be here shortly to tell you where its from, remember....never said i took it, i have been there of course !

Where is this place would like to take my son when we visit in August.

take him to canadas wonderland sher. theres a huge waterpark there aswell as a theme park. go early though and pack a lunch. be prepared to leave when it shuts a 10pm!!!!

http://www.canadas-wonderland.com/

Research the web site of the licensing body for nurses in Ontario which is the “College of Nurses of Ontario�:

http://www.cno.org/

Check out the section “Registration Guide for Internationally Educated Nurses�.


Also the “Nurses’ Association of Ontario� is the trade union representing nurses in Ontario:

http://www.ona.org/aboutus/index.html

Also, check out their FAQ section for lots of information – see the section about foreign nurses wanting to come and work in Ontario.


I also wanted to remind you to post some of those photos that you took on your recent trip to Ontario – especially the ones taken around Niagara Falls.

Hi Jo,

Thanks for that i will, just getting all my places to see list together for my son.
Sher

Check this out for academic qualifications:

http://www.cno.org/international_en/.../overview.html

Select the links on the left side of the screen.

There are a lot of places in Ontario that have waterslides. Check this out:

http://www.jus4funcanada.com/pages-1/waterparks.html

thanks for that ocean, thats closer to us than toronto for this years hols. hopefully a lot cheaper too. last year canadas wonderland cost well over $200 for 2 adults and 4 kids!!!! never again

Where will you be in Ontario? There may be other places even closer. Like I said, there are a lot of waterparks in Ontario.

http://www.conservationhamilton.ca/p...nfed_Water.asp

For fees scroll down to “Wild Waterworks� at:

http://www.conservationhamilton.ca/p...es/default.asp