In fact, the program was specifically for nurses who arrived in Canada and who had received their training abroad. They had passed the exam, but they were having trouble finding a job. In many cases, we realized that the immigrants did not have a problem with respect to knowledge, but rather with respect to their cultural knowledge of Canada, in other words, ways of doing things, what is accepted, and what is not.
The Cité collégiale has offered a program for foreign-trained nurses on two occasions.