Evaluating New Licensure Pathways for Internationally Educated Nurses (IENs)
Principal Investigators: Kathleen (Kate) Leslie, Patrick Chiu, Bukola Salami, Joy Peacock and Adedoyin Olanlesi-Aliu
Canadian nursing regulators have been under pressure to reform licensure processes and allow more qualified nurses into the healthcare system. In recent months, nursing regulators across Canada have rapidly implemented various strategies designed to streamline the licensure of IENs without sacrificing accuracy, safety, and quality. Through a pan-Canadian academic-practice-regulatory partnership, our team will evaluate the implementation of specific provincial regulatory reforms to generate the evidence needed to scale equity-focused IEN licensure and integration pathways across the country. Our project will generate the needed evidence to work toward less siloed and more equitable nursing regulatory policy for IENs in Canada.
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Webinars
Presentations
House of Commons Advisory Meeting
Advising the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN) regarding their advocacy related to their submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health (HESA) on the integration of internationally educated health practitioners (IEHPs) where they were also able to speak to their environmental scan.
Click here for more information or to watch the full HESA meeting (beginning at 11:12:46 for P4IENs).
Publications
Licensure Pathways for Internationally Educated Nurses: An Environmental Scan of Canadian Nursing Regulatory Bodies (June, 2025)
Researchers hoping to cut through the red tape for international nurses (July, 2024)
Research tackles barriers preventing internationally educated nurses from practising in Canada (July, 2024)
For more information, contact Dr. Kathleen (Kate) Leslie at Athabasca University ↓
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