Bringing nurses into Canada

Coming into Canada and being successful in Canada is not the same thing. Some foreign nurses immigrate here as skilled workers full of CIC-inspired promises just to find out they can't even fulfill the CofNurses requirements and land nursing jobs. It's even more complicated when they bring their families.
What I find contradictory: There're recruitments programs for international nurses but there're few resources for the IENs who already live here.

There are several challenges faced by Internationally Educated Nurses in Canada. Go to PubMed or Cinahl and search for Blythe et. al. (2009) and Baumann et. al (2009), also search for Jeans et. al (2005 - Navigating to become a nurse in Canada- on Google. Also search Tregunno (2009) on pubmed or cinahl search for Tregunno (2009).

All this articles points to the challenges to workforce immigration. Also, a document was released by the Canadian nurses Association in 2009, that is seriously against in migration of nurses. Look up google for "Tested solutions to eliminating Canada's nursing shortage". Also search the CNA position statement on ethical nurse recruitment. There is a very strong ethical issues with recruiting nurses from overseas. Where-ever you will be recruiting from, there will be a shortage of nurses in that country. There is a nursing shortage all over the world and its like you are making the nursing shortage worst elsewhere by recruiting nurses overseas. The best solution to Canada's nursing shortage is developing our workforce internally through increasing access to nursing educational programs.

So, why dont you help the ones in canada get a job in Canada. A better area you can channel your business idea to is to help people who are currently internationally educated nurses already in Canada for diverse reasons, maybe they married canadians, their husbands immigrated here, they are refugees or whatever reason. You can create a business opportunity where you help them integrate more into the system. Maybe offer CRNE examination preparation courses, or introduction to Canadian nurses. Also you can help new grads find a job in Canada and help seasoned nurses who want to change their careers to other specialties in Canada.

What Im saying is, there are sooo many business ideas in Canada. Hiring nurses from overseas is considered unethical. WHO, ICN, CNA etc are all against it. If I were you, I would sit back more, read this articles, do a thorough needs assessment and create a business idea involving internationally educated nurses from Canada.

Hi canadiangradschoolrn , I see my own situation reflected in your post: I'm married to a Canadian citizen. I feel very lucky that I've being given authorization to write the CRNE. Without any feeling of entitlement, it may be easier/cheaper/more ethical for the provinces to help integrate IENs who are already established in Canada.
IENs, however, need to do some legwork too; it doesn't make sense to sit and wait for the system to accommodate us.

You are right. IENs need to do some work themself. Its needs to be a combined effort between policy makers, IENs, regulatory authorities etc.

Great post canadiangradschoolrn, I think the idea of creating a business to help IEN who are already in Canada is excellent, Janfrn has provided a wealth of information for IENs about the process of becoming nurses in Canada in the stickies at the top of the Canadian nursing forum.
I vote Janfrn, the president of the future business " Integration of IENs residing in Canada"
All in favour?
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Im sorry, done what. You mean, has anyone helped IENs to complete the CRNE examination. Yes. But more is needed. Im not sure if this is what you mean.

All in favour, no objections, motion carried, JanFrn has been appointed president of the future business "integration of IENs residing in Canada"

Numerous people have done it. You will really need to do the research. Look up recruitement agencies. Many of the recruitment agencies are based in Philippines and India. Also, some governement have done it themselves, like the government of saskatchewan and alberta. This is considered grossly unethical and this governments have stopped it now considering cries from several interest groups. One of my friends was helping someone with the process of bringing nurses here. She stopped helping after I told her about how unethical it is. From her experience, it was quite easy for the nurses to get their licence. That was the easiest peice. However, for them to come to Canada, they need to have secured a job to be given a visa. This was a problem. She contacted several hospitals. No hospitals wanted to hire this nurses. More and more hospital management are becoming aware of the unethical aspect of recruiting from overseas and they dont want to engage in this type of business.