Do International Nurses work at your local hospital?

As part of photography project THROUGH MY LENS, international nurses from the Royal Cornwall Hospital Truro and our team attended Open Days at Truro and Penwith Colleges.  THROUGH MY LENS has been based around photography workshops working with international nurses based in Truro – from the Philippines, India, Africa and elsewhere.  The nurses have taken photographs of Cornwall – showing their perspective to a wider world. Penzance photographer Mike Newman led them.

At the Open Days, we presented students with a short quiz we’d drawn up together with a few crucial questions….

We even had a prize – a photo by one of our overseas nurses.

The questions are below. For the answers – click here.

1. Do nurses from overseas work at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro?

2. What are the top three countries they come from?

3. In which area of the hospital are there most overseas nurses?

4. How many International Nurses arrived in 2023?

5. Is fluent English a requirement?

6. Where do the nurses live?

7. How long is the initial contract? Do the nurses stay in Cornwall after that?

8. In what areas do people from overseas (not just nurses) work at the hospital? Please give three examples.

9. What are the top three difficulties faced by nurses from overseas?

With thanks to Adrian Pennington and the Communications Team at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro: click here to view films made by Adrian about the project

And thanks, of course, to the photographers’ whose work is now on display at Cornwall Museum and Art Gallery: Michael Apas, Peter Jacob