Ontario nursing groups say international recruitment is a long-term solution as the province struggles to retain workers
Razan Suliman has worked as a registered nurse and midwife in some of the world’s most trying circumstances, from wartime hospitals to refugee camps.
Nursing organizations and hospital networks have both identified international recruitment as a long-term solution as the province struggles to retain workers, many of whom are burnt out or leaving the profession in droves. Her nursing school, she said, had been bombed and her old hospital was withholding her employment records. After many phone calls with the assessment service, she says her application was accepted.
The registered nurses association says the past decade has seen a growing backlog of applicants and estimates the queue is near 26,000. But Grinspun, of the registered nurses association, says there is still room for improvement. Rather than treating each applicant individually, she says the college could look at ways to pool applicants who graduated from the same cohort at an international nursing school.She says she first applied in 2008, while working in Jamaica, and was told she had five years to get work authorization if she wanted to register with the college.
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