Serving global nurses and allied healthcare workers with credentials evaluation and career mobility since 1977.

Care Anywhere

Validating the training and skills of our global health workforce

Care Anywhere

Validating the training and skills of our global health workforce

Care Anywhere

Validating the training and skills of our global health workforce

Congratulations! You’ve chosen a career in healthcare. Your training, skills, and credentials can position you in a hospital around the corner or earning an advanced degree at a university on the other side of the world. At a time when global health systems are challenged with health worker shortages, your knowledge and skills are in great demand. At CGFNS, our portfolio of services is designed to help you navigate the complexities of credentials verification and evaluation, academic admission, and specialty certification. But we also provide lifelong resourcing across your career to support your goals for professional development and career advancement. We have nearly 50 years of expertise to support you, so this is the best place to start.

Latest episode (Bonus)

Host Lea Sims sits down with Dr. Olivia Wei Li, RN, MSN, EdD, an International Nursing Educator and Consultant whose remarkable career spans continents and decades.

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A new global credential

Nurses around the world can now earn a global specialty credential in rehabilitation care. Download the Certified Registered Nurse-Rehab (CGN-R) handbook, view our exam prep video series, and register for the exam today.

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Welcome, Aruba.

International health workers seeking entry to practice in Aruba can now have their credentials verified through CGFNS. Our CVS program now includes services for Department of Health Aruba.

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Coming soon! GPVault™

CGFNS is launching a new online service designed to support the career mobility of global nurses and other health workers throughout their careers—streamlining and accelerating the document verification processes needed for academic admission, employment, and migration.

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Global Nursing Workforce Centre

A new initiative with ICN.

Now in development, the Centre will be a clearinghouse for research and policy analysis from around the world focusing on the global nursing workforce.

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Our latest brief

Through global migration, nurses leverage their skills and gain significant opportunities for themselves and their families. This brief highlights the impacts of nursing and migration in advancing gender equality and economic empowerment for women and girls.

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Prepare for mobility.

No matter where employment opportunities take you, validating your training, credentials, and skills will be a necessary process throughout your career. Start with building a secure repository for all your primary source transcripts, credentials, and career documentation. When you’re ready to make a move—to a new school, new country, or new job—make verification quick, secure, and easy.

Know what you need.

Whether you’re looking for work in your country or another country, you’ll need to understand the process for meeting regulatory compliance and professional licensure requirements. You might need additional training or formal education. You may need to brush up on your language proficiency skills. Or you might benefit from additional certifications to demonstrate your clinical competency. We can guide you through the right steps and requirements.

Decide where to work.

The entry-to-practice requirements for nurses and healthcare workers vary greatly from country to country and region to region (or state to state). Make sure you study the credentials verification/evaluation, language proficiency, academic assessment, and employment history requirements that are specific to the country and region/state where you are applying for employment or academic admission.

Stay up to speed.

From graduation through retirement, your career trajectory will be shaped by continuing education and professional development. We can point you to job readiness and career advancement resources that will enable you to stay at the forefront of healthcare delivery and care model evolution. Whether you need to prepare for a job interview or earn CEUs for recertification, we can connect you.

What Our Applicants Say

CGFNS supports the global health workforce with credentials evaluation and verification services for work in these countries:

CGFNS provides the following services to support nurses and other qualifying healthcare workers who need to meet entry-to-practice requirements for employment in the United States:

CGFNS has an exclusive partnership with Canadian nursing regulators and the National Nursing Assessment Service (NNAS) to evaluate and validate the credentials of internationally-educated nurses looking to practice in Canada.

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If you are an Internationally Qualified Nurse who wishes to practice in New Zealand, you must first apply to The Credentials Verification Service for the Nursing Council of New Zealand (CVS-NCNZ) at CGFNS International, Inc.

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CGFNS provides the following services to support nurses and other qualifying healthcare workers who need to meet entry-to-practice requirements for employment in Aruba:

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