Toronto Star: Foreign-trained nurses translate skills

Drew Gough

Godfrida Bamnjo comes from a family of nurses. Three of her sisters are nurses, another is a midwife and her father was a veterinary nurse. She grew up surrounded by the language and the spirit of caregiving, studied nursing (in both English and French) and has worked as a midwife.

And now, eight years after immigrating to Canada from Cameroon, she’s ready to start working as a nurse in Canada. Having passed her exams in George Brown College’s Academic Pathway for Nurses Graduate Certificate program, she has received the approval of the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) to practise.

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Source: Toronto Star