The advance team for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador's mission to establish a nursing recruitment desk is now in Bengaluru, India, and will also spend time in Mangalore, Manipal, and Hyderabad in the coming weeks. The Executive Director of the College of Registered Nurses of Newfoundland and Labrador, who is committed to overseeing areas of regulatory alignment and comparable educational programmes, is accompanying the advance team.

The advance team met with St. Martha's College of Nursing, a nursing training institution founded in 1933, on Monday, November 21. A meeting with senior administrators and a presentation on career opportunities in Newfoundland and Labrador to 50 final-year nursing students were among the meetings that took place at St. Martha's.

The team paid a visit to the East West Group of Institutions campus on Tuesday, November 22. Meetings with the chairman, executive director, director of academics, and principal of the School of Nursing and Physiotherapy were part of this visit. More than 100 final-year nursing students were given a presentation on health-care employment opportunities.

The goal of each meeting is to form mutually beneficial partnerships between the Newfoundland and Labrador government and these post-secondary institutions.

Meetings will be held in the coming days with other nursing colleges across Karnataka, the Karnataka State Nursing Council, and the Government of Telangana and its Telangana Overseas Manpower Company in Hyderabad.

To supplement in-person recruitment and relationship-building efforts, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador is launching an email portal to engage with Indian nurses interested in working in Newfoundland and Labrador. Nursing students and registered nurses in India who are interested should contact [email protected]. By using this email address, interested nurses will be taken through the process involved in moving to Newfoundland and Labrador to work as a registered nurse.