Immigrant nurses have “mixed” results in the Canadian workforce with more than 60 percent finding employment in their field and roughly a quarter working in lower-skilled occupations or unemployed, a recent government report says.
Approximately 63 percent of immigrants who intended to work as nurses found jobs in nursing occupations in 2021, while 2 percent found jobs in other skilled health occupations, and 13 percent worked in lower-skilled health occupations, such as nurse aides, orderlies, and patient service associates, a joint study conducted by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and Statistics Canada indicates.
