For nurses applying to work from abroad, the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives’ triple-tack assessment, which requires them to only submit one application for three nursing streams, reduced costs and streamlined hiring processes for registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and health-care assistants. Employers are also implementing new measures to increase schedule flexibility. “We talked to nursing associations in B.C. and they have been doing interesting things,” says Faubert.