Ontario to Deploy Internationally Trained Nurses to Bolster Health-Care Workforce

Ontario to Deploy Internationally Trained Nurses to Bolster Health-Care Workforce
Paramedics transfer a patient from an ambulance to the emergency department at Michael Garron Hospital in Toronto on Jan. 10, 2022. The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette
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Ontario is making it possible for internationally trained nurses to work in health-care settings that are strained by staffing shortages, Health Minister Christine Elliott says.

Elliott announced at a press conference on Tuesday that the province is deploying internationally educated nurses to hospitals and long-term care homes that are short-staffed, part of a collaboration between Ontario Health and the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO).