Providence Health Care

Providence Health Care includes international work experience when determining starting salaries for new Canadian nurses. The organization places as much value on international work experience as they do international educational qualifications.

Providence Health Care provides eight-week paid work placements to internationally-trained nurses enrolled in British Columbia's Internationally Educated Registered Nurses Post-Licensure Project. After finishing the program, nurses are hired to permanent, full-time positions on the same unit where their preceptorship was completed. This enables internationally-trained nurses to continue to receive support from the same colleagues they trained with as they transition from a work practicum appointment to permanent, full-time employment.

Internationally-trained nurses may be unaccustomed to healthcare delivery in a multicultural, multifaith patient population. To address this need, Providence Health Care holds lectures and workshops on the cultural aspects of healthcare delivery for new Canadians who have not worked in a multicultural environment before. The organization also produces training materials and other in-house resources on how to deliver culturally-appropriate healthcare.