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Valuing internationally educated nurses and diversity in the community nursing workforce
  1. Ben Bowers1,2,
  2. Noor Ul Haq3,
  3. Amanda Young2,
  4. Crystal Oldman2
  1. 1Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  2. 2Queen’s Nursing Institute, London, UK
  3. 3Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Leeds, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ben Bowers; bb527{at}medschl.cam.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2024-104158

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    The contributions of internationally educated nurses are one of our under-recognised strengths in the community health and social care workforce. International colleagues possess valuable skills and expertise, multi-cultural perspectives and insights that strengthen patient-centred care and teams. The UK and many high-income countries actively recruit international nurses to meet expanding healthcare needs.1 2 For example, healthcare services in the UK and Norway employ high proportions of people from overseas3 4; many internationally qualified nurses work in care homes and increasingly in the community.1 4

    But do we really value the diversity and skill set of our international workforce? Sadly, evidence suggests we do not. Many internationally educated nurses experience deskilling and loss of status when they arrive in the UK.1 5 6 Nurses describe transitioning from highly experienced nurses in their countries of …

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    Footnotes

    • Funding Ben Bowers is supported by the Wellcome Trust [225577/Z/22/].

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.