RNAO continues to speak about prominent nursing and health-care issues. This is a report on our media outreach during the months of February and March.

RNAO sent a letter to the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) expressing grave concerns about the slow processing of applications for registration of internationally educated nurses (IEN).

The following is an article contributed by a group of internationally educated nurses (IENs) who live in Canada and are anxious to work as RNs in Canada but who have endured years of an arduous and seemingly interminable process to meet the requirements.

As we begin a new year, 2022, amid another very challenging wave – the fifth one -- I want to thank each health care worker for the work you do. Our nursing colleagues are stretched beyond imagination with unattainable workloads and an unjust Bill 124 undermining their unparalleled contribution to Ontario’s health-care system. Please know that RNAO will stand by you, with you and for you until this government acts!