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Our New Name | TruMerit™
A new journey
begins.
After nearly 50 years of supporting the career mobility of foreign-educated nurses and other health workers, CGFNS is embarking on a new journey. We’re stepping into a new era of global impact, expanding our mission beyond migration to support international health workforce development. We will continue to support the evolution of patient-centric care around the world by focusing on the validation of education, skills, and experience for health workers no matter where they want to work in the world—whether they want to work or go to school in another country, seek opportunity in their own country, or pursue professional development and career advancement.
At the same time, we recognize the critical need of every nation to build resilient health systems and invest in a future-ready workforce. And we want to be a part of enabling that workforce to advance their careers through education, certification, and professional development
To support that vision, we’re changing our name to:
TruMerit means “genuine excellence.” It reflects the credibility of our hard-earned brand and the quality of our service delivery for nearly five decades. More importantly, the name points to our mission of helping global health workers advance their careers through meritorious achievement.
Why change our name?
The “Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools” no longer fits us. It served us well in early years when our focus was on migrating nurses, but we have evolved to support many other health professions (physical/occupational therapists, audiologists, speech-language pathologists, clinical laboratory scientists/technicians, physician assistants, rehabilitation workers, and more) across a portfolio of career mobility services that extend beyond migration. Likewise, “CGFNS” has often been a cumbersome and confusing abbreviation to explain and to build our brand around. Our new name carries both a meaning and a message—about who we are and what is important to the global health workforce we serve.
When will this change take place?
We will be rolling out our new name, logo, and brand over the first half of 2025, and you will see this reflected on our website, customer portals, print and digital communications, credentials and certificates, and everywhere our brand is positioned across our ecosystem. We will be executing a thoughtful transitional strategy to ensure all our stakeholders are appropriately notified, informed of the impact and implications, and stewarded well to this new information.
About our name and logo
The change you will see
A new name means nothing if it doesn’t reflect transformational change at every level of an organization. In the spirit of advancing “genuine excellence” in health workforce development, we are re-architecting our business in these critical ways:
While we will continue to serve health workers with migration support services, moving forward our core competencies of verification, evaluation, and certification will be more purposefully positioned to serve global health workers across their careers. We want to support their needs for career advancement and mobility regardless of where they choose to work, whether in country or elsewhere. We know that a commitment to the development and validation of their skills is the best contribution we can make to addressing global workforce shortages, health equity and access challenges, and the demand for patient-centric care model evolution.
Moving the needle on global workforce challenges will require collaborative coalitions focused on relevant research, data analytics, and informed development of services and programs. In 2024, CGFNS launched the Global Health Workforce Development Institute and charged it with research on evolving practice standards, competency frameworks, and global certification programs. CGFNS will also launch the Global Nursing Workforce Centre with the International Council of Nurses (ICN) in 2025 to synthesize global research around the nursing workforce.
CGFNS launched its first global credential and certification exam in 2024. The Certified Global Nurse – Rehabilitation credential is the first of many specialty credentials being developed by our Institute to enable global career portability for nurses and other health workers. Two more credentials will be launched in 2025. In addition, work is currently underway on a Reinvented Qualifying Exam as a global benchmarking tool for entry-level general nurses, and we are exploring revision of CES and VisaScreen to expand core business offerings.
We will continue to advocate for the career mobility of all health workers when we engage with global stakeholders. We support the right of nurses and other health workers to pursue opportunity where they need to, whether in their home countries or elsewhere, and that they should be able to do so in an ecosystem of fair and ethical recruitment, job placement, career advancement, and recognition of their contributory value.
We believe the future of health workforce development will be increasingly shaped by emerging technology. The way health workers are trained, recruited, equipped, and credentialed is being architected around digital, hybrid, and virtual capabilities that streamline and automate care delivery from the classroom to the bedside. We are investing thoughtful research and development into the use of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), extended reality (XR), and virtual simulation to support the delivery of our current and anticipated service lines. We have already made purposeful strides toward creation and distribution of digital certificates and digital credentials, which will give greater agility and career portability to our health worker applicants.
We are streamlining every area of our operations to support the agile needs and career mobility goals of our global health workforce customers. We have greatly reduced application and turnaround times for verification and evaluation services, deployed best-in-class customer care tools to both increase our availability and decrease customer inquiry response times, and in 2025 we will launch a brand-new, unified applicant experience portal for those seeking our services and resources.
