Hi all!

Im a Student Nurse here in the UK and next year the university gave us the opportunity to travel abroad for 4 weeks to experience Nursing in another country.

I chose Canada cause i hope to move there after i graduate.

Any tips on where would be the best place in Canada to stay?
Preferably somewhere closeby to some good hospitals.

Thanks,
Mary-Grace x

Welcome to the forum, Mary-Grace.

I'm not in the medical field. In addition to that, my knowledge of hospitals is limited by the fact that the only place in Canada in which I've lived is Calgary, and my family has had only the occasional reason to visit a hospital. My only overnight stays in hospital involved two live births and a miscarriage early during pregnancy. My husband has never spent a night in hospital. Other than the few nights immediately following their births, neither of our sons has been back to hospital for a night. Knock on wood.

I would guess that most hospitals across Canada are of a reasonable standard. Since you are thinking of emigrating later on, I think you should base your choice of destination on other criteria. Things people would need to know before they could try to help you choose a destination include:

There are other criteria to consider, but those are starting points. If you could tell us about your interests, it would help us to help you.

very sound advice, i would just like to add that Sheila is a nurse, taking the NS nursing exam next month and if you need any advice from that perspective, feel free to ask.

One of my daughters is in the final year of a nursing degree in Toronto. She's rotated through a few hospitals here and also took a gap year to work in one in Europe. If you're interested in a big (and ugly) city I could ask her about the hospitals here.

Thanks for the responses dbd33 & andy_sheila

Hi Judy,
The questions you presented me with made me think...
Living in London all my life it would be nice to have a change of scenery so somewhere with mountains or near the ocean/lake sounds good.
Unfortunately im not very fluent in French
I do like the 4 season climate
... and also a multi cultural area aswell.

Hmm does a place fit my description?

Thanks x

Out of interest, is that all UK Unis offer the chance to work abroad for student nurses?

Is it your second or third year you can do it?

Its a great idea though isn't it?

Yes most universities offer you the chance to work abroad, it's not only the nursing course that offer it.
You usually do it at the end of your 2nd year.

I thought it was a great idea aswell it's just a shame they don't help you financially anymore.
You have to pay for the whole thing yourself now oh well, nevermind

That is no incentive bearing in mind how crap our bursary is.

Im struggling as it is and Ive only just started.

Makes me laugh when they say you can do the degree if you get good marks.

Lose your bursary AND pay for tuition.

Where are you doing your Nursing?

Luckily i dont have anyone dependant on me so i can save my bursary for this Canada thing. Im just glad we don't have to pay tuition fees!

The degree thing just doesnt make sense, since the degree is a lil harder, then they should get paid just as much as the diploma students.

Im doing it at TVU and doing Learning Disability nursing.

I am so glad I dont have kids. Its a struggle now.

I shall turn to my old profession of Veterinary nursing at the weekends and in holidays, I can earn 15 -20 pounds an hour.

They tried to recruit us to do care work at weekends but I am not working for that.

I trained two years a listed vet nurse and I can earn double doing that.

I might want a career change, but I sure will use it to earn money.


I am a little nervous on how I will cope with the assignments, we dont sit any exams at all doing LD.

but with the pass mark 40percent, I have been told its very hard to get that.