Nurses
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Job description
In addition to caring for patients, these individuals provide education programs and health care consultations. This group includes those who are in the process of obtaining their licence. They are self-employed, work in their own homes, or in:
- Hospitals
- Health care or extended care facilities
- Rehabilitation centres
- Clinics
- Medical offices
- Pharmacies
- Community organizations
- Call centres
- Businesses
- School environments
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Hazardous chemical
- Biological agents
- Odours
- Hazardous workplaces
- Violence
Main tasks
Nurses
- Plan and evaluate the care to be given.
- Assess the physical and mental condition of patients.
- Educate patients and their families about health issues.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary health care teams.
- Administer prescribed medications and treatments.
- Adjust the nursing therapeutic plan.
- Monitor, assess, document, and record symptoms and changes in patients’ conditions.
- Assist physicians with surgical procedures and medical procedures.
- May supervise other staff members.
- Carry out the referral process.
Occupational Health Nurses
- Develop health education programs for staff.
- Provide nursing care in private companies and industries.
Community Health Nurses
- Provide nursing care and health information in homes and health care facilities.
- Participate in community needs assessments and program development.
- Screen for diseases and administer vaccines.
Psychiatric Nurses
- Provide nursing care in mental health settings.
- Provide counselling services to patients.
Nursing Consultants
- Provide consultation services related to the nursing profession and nursing science.
Nursing Researchers
- Conduct research in nursing science.
Clinical Nurses
- Assess the health status of patients.
- Ensure the realization of the nursing care and treatment plan for individuals with complex health problems.
- Provide care and treatment.
Advancement and mobility
- A degree in Administrative Management may give access to management positions.
- Experience and training can lead to supervisory or management positions.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $26.58
- Median
- $40.00
- Maximum
- $50.00
Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 88.3% Female
- 11.7% Male
- 88.3% Female
- 11.7% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
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NAICS 621, 622, 62394% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 561% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 451% of jobs
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NAICS 911% of jobs
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NAICS 6241% of jobs
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Others2% of jobs
All of Québec
-
NAICS 621, 622, 62394% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 561% of jobs
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NAICS 44, 451% of jobs
-
NAICS 911% of jobs
-
NAICS 6241% of jobs
-
Others2% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
College
DCS in nursing
Placement rate: 43.1%
53.4% of graduates pursue further studies
DCS in nursing
Placement rate: 72.7%
26.4% of graduates pursue further studies
University
Community health, occupational health or epidemiology
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 85.7%
8.6% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 81.3%
13.3% of graduates pursue further studies
Nursing
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 90.6%
5.8% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 88.9%
7.2% of graduates pursue further studies
Also required
- Membership in the Ordre professionnel des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec (OIIQ [Quebec Order of Nurses]).
Sometimes required
- Bachelor’s degree usually required for clinical nurse positions.
- A Class 5 driver’s licence and a vehicle may be required for those providing home care.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Active listening
- Social perception
- Oral expression
- Service oriented
- Reading comprehension
- Coordination
- Critical thought
- Information processing
- Result evaluation
- Judgment and decision-making
- Written expression
- Active learning
- Solving complex problems
- Teaching
- Learning strategies
- Time management
- Persuasion
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Awareness of issues
- Written comprehension
- Deductive reasoning
- Inductive reasoning
- Speech clarity
- Speech recognition
- Written expression
- Information organization
- Near vision
- Classification
- Core strength
- Selective attention
- Perception speed
- Processing flexibility
- Distance vision
- Digital dexterity
- Manual dexterity
- Endurance
- Idea generation
- Memorization
- Time sharing
- Hand-arm stability
Knowledge and attributes
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to adapt
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Capacity to work in a team
- Sense of initiative
- Tolerance to stress
- Commitment to quality
- Availability
- Knowledge of medicine or dentistry
- Knowledge of psychology
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Carry out research
- Assist and advise
- Teach or educate
- Assist or care for people
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
- Artistic
- People with this profile prefer to express their emotions and thoughts through various art forms. They like to use their imagination.
Official name of the NOC 31301
Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses
Job titles
- Hospital nurse
- Clinic nurse
- Clinical nurse
- Home care nurse
- Triage nurse
- Nursing researcher
- Infection control officer
- Nursing adviser
- Infection control coordinator - hospital
- Nursing evaluator
- Hospital hygienist - nursing
- Clinical nurse specialist
- Nurse
- Registered nurse - call centre
- Registered nurse - public and community health
- Registered industrial nurse
- Registered nurse - independent practice
- Registered community health nurse
- Registered public health nurse
- Registered nurse - telehealth
- Graduate nurse
- Graduate nurse - physician's office
- Graduate nurse - occupational health
- Graduate private duty nurse
- Nurse researcher
- Outreach nurse
- Casual duty nurse
- Registered psychiatric nurse (r.p.n.)
- School nurse
- Respiratory nurse specialist
- Nurse technician
- Cardiology nurse technician
- Visiting nurse
- Consultant nurse
- Occupational health nurse consultant
- Public health nurse consultant
- Nurse counsellor
- Liaison nurse
- Float nurse
- Industrial nurse
- Ward nurse
- Coronary unit nurse
- Intensive care unit (icu) nurse
- Emergency nurse
- Doctor's office nurse
- Youth centre nurse
- Birthing room nurse
- Bedside nurse
- Out-patient clinic nurse
- Victoria order nurse
- Red cross nurse
- Operating room (or) nurse
- Recovery room nurse
- Ambulatory care nurse
- Primary care nurse
- Cardiology nurse
- Cardiac surgery nurse
- Dialysis nurse
- Geriatric nurse
- Gerontology nurse
- Hemodialysis nurse
- Hospital hygiene nurse
- Occupational medicine nurse
- Nephrology nurse
- Nephrology and kidney transplantation nurse
- Obstetrics nurse
- Oncology nurse
- Pediatric nurse
- Perinatal care nurse
- First aid nurse
- Contagious disease transmission prevention nurse
- Infection control nurse
- Psychiatric nurse
- Outpost nurse
- Community health nurse
- Occupational health nurse
- Mental health nurse
- Public health nurse
- Public and community health nurse
- School health nurse
- Neuroscience nurse
- Circulating nurse
- General duty nurse
- Scrub nurse
- Burn patient care nurse
- Critical care nurse
- Emergency care nurse
- General duty nurse - psychiatry
- Geriatric care nurse
- Primary nurse
- Intensive care nurse
- Surgical intensive care nurse
- Coronary intensive care nurse
- Medical intensive care nurse
- Pediatric intensive care nurse
- Home care neuroscience nurse
- Palliative care nurse
- Foot care nurse
- Private care nurse
- Psychiatric and mental health nurse
- Respiratory care nurse
- Infection surveillance nurse
- On-call nurse
- Nursing technician
Skill type
Health
Last update: January 29, 2026