Health Equity
The Health Equity Area of Excellence (AoE) provides leadership in the creation of a community of scholars within the Faculty of Nursing that foster discourse and inquiry to examine issues related to social determinants of health as conditions for social advantage/ disadvantage and systematic disparities in health.
Items in this Collection
- 4Canada
- 3Immigrant women
- 2Alberta
- 2Bridging programs
- 2Canada, Alberta, Edmonton
- 2Internationally educated nurses
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2010-06-03
Higginbottom, G., Mogale, R.S.
While credentialing issues for IENs relocating to Canada have been studied, little is known about the experiences of their transition into Canadian healthcare systems. Alberta Health Services (AHS) recently undertook recruitment drives in Australia, India, the UK and the Philippines, thus...
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Workplace Transitioning Experiences of IENs who Attended Academic Bridging Programs in Canada: A Thesis Proposal
Download2013-04-16
The proposed study will explore how academic bridging programs facilitated the internationally-educated nurses’ (IENs) ability to transition to Canada’s health care system. The proposed study will use a focused ethnographic methodology. Twenty five participants will be invited to participate...