Businesses in Quebec also jumped.
So much so that a meeting was arranged in Quebec on Wednesday between the president of the OIIQ, Luc Mathieu, and the ministers Sonia LeBel, Christian Dubé and Pascale Déry. One is responsible for the application of professional laws, the other is from the health network and the other from the higher education network.
Quebec is concerned about the abnormally high failure rates in the OIIQ exams at a time when it continues to multiply initiatives to recruit nurses, especially abroad.
The pass rate for all freshmen taking the March 2023 exam was 53.3%, up from 51.4% in September 2022, an exam that has been controversial for months.
Within two years, Quebec hopes to have completed the upgrading of around 1,000 female students recruited in Africa to become nurses in Quebec. A $65 million program launched in February 2022 by ministers Jean Boulet and Christian Dubé.
The exam pass rate for candidates educated outside of Canada was 19.5% for the September 2022 and 37% for the March 2023 exam.
The recovery plan for operations is based in particular on the availability of nurses in the health network.
More than 200 complaints to the office
Over the past nine months, more than 5,000 candidates have taken the two OIIQ exams.
When the Commissioner for Admissions to Professions concluded two weeks ago that more than 500 future nurses were technically failed in September 2022
during the review of the Nursing Order, Minister Christian Dubé did not hesitate to say does not have the means to do without 500 nurses
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However, Radio-Canada has learned that to date the commissioner’s office has received more than 200 separate complaints from candidates who have passed one of the two exams.
As shared Monday on the show All in one morning nursing student Clémence Fortin, from the first year of CEGEP we are warned, we are afraid with the exam: prepare for the exam, it is difficult […] But I didn’t think it was that difficult
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The latter announced last week that she was giving up her dream of becoming a nurse.
Luke Matthew from OIIQ recently confirmed the use of a new test from spring 2024.
In collaboration with Aude Garachon
