| According to unpublished data from the | | | | sources of immigrant nurses were as follows: |
| Department of Immigration and Multicultural and | | | | 48% from the UK/Ireland, 25% from Asia, 12% |
| Indigenous Affairs (2004) the number of | | | | NZ/Oceania and various countries all over the |
| immigrant overseas trained nurses nearly tripled | | | | world (Hawthorne, 2000, cited in Hawthorne, 2001, |
| between 2000 and 2004 (cited in Jeon & | | | | p. 217). |
| Chenoweth, 2007, p. 17) | | | | The phenomenon of a growing CALD workforce |
| . In 1996 the Australian Institute of Health and | | | | within this group is seen to be a result of the |
| Welfare (1999, cited in Omeri & Atkins 2002, p. | | | | global nursing shortage (Jeon & Chenoweth, 2007, |
| 496) reported that 23.6 % of all qualified nurses | | | | p. 17). The dilemma is that the CALD nurses were |
| were born outside Australia, including 7.4% from a | | | | found to experience difficulties in transition that |
| non-English speaking background. | | | | seemed to be caused mainly by language and |
| Statistics from 1982 to 1994 indicate that the | | | | cultural barriers (DEST, 2007, Chapter 7.1.4). |