Human Resources committee  In nursing, all applicants have to write the registered national exam. Some will go through more quickly. Australia, the U.K., the United States might not have to come for assessment of competency, but they all have to write the national exam.

Human Resources committee  We had an opportunity to take two trips offshore to try to create our assessment centres in a variety of countries, the U.K., Qatar, U.A.E., and India, and the challenge was you needed to be assessed against Canadian standards and in a Canadian context. It's very hard to create t

Human Resources committee  Thank you for the question. I'll approach that in two different ways. The challenge right now is that we don't have a unique identifier to know if you've been recruited by an employer and if you've contacted the regulator. Those pieces of information aren't necessarily shared. T

Human Resources committee  Certainly. And we need to support measurements of outcomes. Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to make this presentation.

Human Resources committee  I believe you have copies of my presentation.

Human Resources committee  Mr. Chair and honourable members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to tell you what we've observed regarding assessments of internationally educated nurses. I'm here as director of the School of Nursing at Mount Royal University in Calgary. One of my responsibiliti