2023-10-10 21:20:27
TVA Nouvelles has learned that a nursing graduate, Jason Aurélien, from Montreal has filed a request for class action once morest the Order of Nurses of Quebec in connection with the controversial exam.
Mr. Aurélien, who is represented by lawyer Fernando Belton, is claiming nearly $30,000 in damages and financial losses from the Order. He claims to have suffered three failures in the OIIQ exam with results of 53% in March 2022, 32% in September 2022 and 50% in March 2023. During the last and fourth exam he completed in September 2023 and from which he is still waiting for the results, his “body is giving up, his head is spinning, his body is heavy, he is tired and no longer able to concentrate”, according to him.
In the request for collective action, he asserts that the multiple failures have notably caused him the fear of not being able to obtain the title of nurse, he expresses doubts regarding his personal and professional abilities, he is ashamed and lives in difficulty. isolation, he feels a drop in self-esteem and a feeling of helplessness, periods of depression, loss of income and expenses for exam fees, tutoring, travel, food and accommodation, because he had to go to Quebec for one of the exams.
- Listen to the interview with Me André Gariépy, commissioner at the Office des professions du Québec on Yasmine Abdelfadel’s show via QUB radio :
Remember that last week, CEGEP teachers demanded that the Order of Nurses of Quebec (OIIQ) be placed under supervision, accusing it of having broken the bond of trust with students and the public that it is supposed to protect.
The third progress report published by the Commissioner for Admission to Professions, André Gariépy, is the straw that broke the camel’s back.
The latter underlined that the massive failure of future nurses in the compulsory entrance exam to the profession, which occurred last year, was not due to the pandemic, as the Order claims, but to the way in which the exam is corrected.
1697315206
#Controversial #examination #Order #Nurses #collective #action #launched
