Forms of Capital as Facilitators of Internationally Educated Nurses’ Integration into the Registered Nursing Workforce in Canada

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ID11968370
AuthorsChristine L Covell (0000-0003-1268-0966, Faculty of Health Sciences and Telfer School of Management University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, corresponding author), Elena Netierman (0000-0001-6767-6169, Department of Sociology McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario), Ivy Lynn Bourgeault (0000-0002-5113-9243, Telfer School of Management University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario)
Year2015
Volume41
IssueSupplement 1
PagesS150-S161
Publication date2015-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0317-0861 • E-ISSN: 1911-9917
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/cpp.2013-056
OpenAlexW4248901814
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited22

We used interview data to explore internationally educated nurses’ perceptions of the factors that facilitated their integration into the registered nursing workforce in Canada. The participants perceived that a variety of interrelated factors facilitated their integration. The identified factors seem to reflect forms of capital. Economic capital (availability of financial resources) and cultural capital (language proficiency and competency in professional vocabulary) enabled the participants to use other forms of capital to become registered and employed in Canada. Providing financial resources and interventions to develop their language skills may assist internationally educated nurses with more rapidly integrating into the country’s nursing workforce

Business · Capital (architecture · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Nurse education · Variety (cybernetics · Vocabulary · Workforce · Global Health Workforce Issues · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Nursing · Psychology

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