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.
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.
The nursing college had also said that with temporary registrations, it could change rules to only revoke a temporary certificate after two failed exam attempts, instead of the one attempt nurses are currently allowed. On that measure, the ministry said it will rely on the college's expertise about what exactly should be included in the regulatory amendments it is now drafting.
Got to fill those private nursing jobs somehow.
Should not this have happened in 2020?
This is a double edge sword. Canadian nurses have been mandated years of education that has only grown from the 90s. It went from 2 years to now 5. They do need help,But won't it burn their Arse that students from out of country are now eligible with a fraction of the education?
I don't want the lowering of standards to bring in foreigners with poor training and even worse English skills. No thanks. Disaster waiting to happen. There's enough poor doctors imported that way.
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