Government of Canada\u2019s Job Bank website<\/a> the employment outlook for registered nurses in northeastern Ontario for the 2025-2027 period is listed as \u2018very good.\u2019<\/p>\nRegistered Nurses (RNs) make $28 to nearly $59 per hour depending on experience and which unit a nurse works.<\/p>\n
Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) make $25 to $39 per hour.<\/p>\n
Nurse Practitioners (NPs) make $125,000 per year on a full-time basis.<\/p>\n
Though new RNs sometimes find it difficult to secure full-time employment, they\u2019re certainly likely to at least get their foot in the door easier in northern Ontario.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hospital’s great at offering support and continuing education,\u201d Mousseau said.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of it is done while you’re on the job in the hospital. Somebody takes you under their wing. When you become a nurse and you get hired at Sault Area Hospital you go through an onboarding process and then you have your preceptor on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s handy to have Sault College nursing grads nearby, Mousseau said.<\/p>\n
Sault College offers extensive nursing education, including a four-year nursing degree program, a two-year practical nursing diploma program as well as certificates in nephrology and an online elective in public health for nursing students.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have Sault College nursing students come here and we get to know them. They’ll do rotations on our post-acute floors and then to our acute floors. You’ll have your rotation in mental health, you’ll have your rotation in pediatric, you’ll have your rotation in critical care or in patient medicine or the surgical floor and you\u2019ll get to decide \u2018this is what I want to do,\u2019\u201d Mousseau said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, I wanted a career in which I could make a real difference in people\u2019s lives.”<\/p>\n
A graduate of Sault College\u2019s nursing program in the 1990s, Mousseau has been a nurse for 28 years.<\/p>\n
With extensive experience working as a nurse in the U.S. before returning home to the Sault to work at SAH, Mousseau has worked in the hospital\u2019s intensive care unit, the renal department and as a supervisor in SAH\u2019s patient flow department.<\/p>\n
Patient flow involves a patient\u2019s journey from entry, through treatment, transfer, and eventual discharge.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have multiple certificates in advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS), pediatric advanced life support (PALS), neonatal resuscitation, and trauma nursing courses. Those are courses you take and certificates you earn within nursing. It\u2019s continuous learning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Compassion is an essential quality for anyone thinking of becoming a nurse, Mousseau said.<\/p>\n
Resiliency is also vital.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need to be a good listener, a good communicator, and work well with the team, and have critical thinking skills. You need to be able to adapt to ever-changing circumstances. You have to pivot in the moment. It’s never a boring job. You never come in knowing \u2018this is what my day is going to be like.\u2019 It’s ever-changing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou’re always there to help people, whether you’re helping them in times of good or helping them in times of distress. For me it’s very rewarding, purposeful work. You have to have a passion for it. You have to love people and you have to love the work.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI enjoy knowing at the end of the day, when leaving the building, that I\u2019ve helped someone in their life and made a positive difference.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nurses – whether they’re working in hospitals, long-term care homes or\u00a0for community agencies – remain in demand. \u201cWe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,325211,84,392,325212],"class_list":["post-950853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-columnsnursingjobs-of-the-futurekent-mousseau","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-sah-nurse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}