Ontario gives OK for nursing college to expedite international nurse registration – CBC
College says changes could potentially benefit nearly 6,000 international applicants
Sep 07, 2022
Ontario’s minister of health has told the province’s nursing college to go ahead with regulatory changes that could get thousands more internationally trained nurses into practice more quickly.
Sylvia Jones directed the College of Nurses of Ontario last month to develop plans to more quickly register internationally educated professionals as staffing shortages have led to temporary emergency department closures across the province.
Among the college’s proposals was allowing internationally trained nurses to be temporarily registered while they go through the process of full registration, such as completing education and an exam.
It also proposed to make it easier for about 5,300 non-practising nurses living in Ontario to return to the workforce, if they want to. Current rules say a nurse must have practised within the last three years to be reinstated, but that could be removed.
Jones has now told the college to draft those amendments to regulations right away.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/international-nurses-registration-ontario-1.6574703
