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The requirements of the European Directives 77/453/EEC and 89/595/EEC have been agreed by Member States of the European Community, and apply to all nurses undertaking programmes for adult nursing. These requirements have mandatory status. This includes those undertaking their first pre-registration nursing programme, overseas nurses undergoing retraining in the UK (those registered in their home country but who do not meet NMC requirements for UK registration) and those accessing a shortened programme following previous registration as a nurse practising in a different branch or as a midwife.

Nurses who have qualified overseas, who wish to practice in the UK, must apply to the NMC. The NMC will assess the programme of general nursing that has been followed for its comparability to the adult nursing branch in the UK. Overseas nurses who have qualified and practised in mental health nursing, learning disabilities nursing or children’s nursing are required to provide comparable evidence of achievement of proficiency in their area of practice when applying to the NMC for UK registration (NMC, 2004).

Entry to the register in the UK is for First Level nurses. There is a Second level part to the nurses register but it remains open only for those nurses in the UK who are already qualified and working at that level, and for European nurses who may access it through their right to freedom of movement. The NMC no longer approves programmes for entry to the second level of the nurses’ part of the register (NMC, 2004).

The Royal College of Nursing provides advice for overseas nurses wishing to work in the UK: www.rcn.org.uk

See section on ‘Coming to work in the UK’

Key outputs

IENE 1, 2008-2010

  • Research report EN
  • PTT/IENE Model EN
  • Report of the survey EN
  • Good Practice Manual EN

IENE 2, 2010-2012

  • Transnational Report  EN
  • ToT methodology  EN  RO  FR  NL
  • Strategic Guide  EN
  • Final conference  EN
  • Brochure with project results  EN

IENE 3, 2013-2015

IENE 4, 2014-2016

  • Report on integrative literature reviews EN
  • Needs assessment report EN
  • An European model for the development of role models to promote and support culturally competent and compassionate care EN
  • Curriculum EN
  • Report of the Tools EN

IENE 5, 2015-2017

  • Needs assessment Report EN
  • Training Model EN RO IT EL DK
  • Curriculum EN
  • Handbook for MOOC facilitators EN
  • MOOC Best Practice Guide EN

IENE 6, 2016-2018

IENE 7, 2017-2019

IENE 8, 2018-2021

IENE 9, 2019-2021

IENE 10, 2020-2022

  • Download the project Outputs here.

IENE 11, 2021-2023

  • Download the project Outputs here.
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