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# Working as a nurse in Sweden

Nurse is a regulated profession in Sweden. Foreign qualifications go through: Nurse and midwife routes differ by qualification origin: EU/EEA applications use professional-qualification recognition; third-country applicants follow education assessment and the Socialstyrelsen adaptation/licence steps. Midwives are distinct; nursing-associate codes are not silently assigned the nurse route. In Sweden, nurses are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.

- Regulation: Regulated
- Recognition route: Nurse and midwife routes differ by qualification origin: EU/EEA applications use professional-qualification recognition; third-country applicants follow education assessment and the Socialstyrelsen adaptation/licence steps. Midwives are distinct; nursing-associate codes are not silently assigned the nurse route.; General system of recognition - primary application; General care nurse; Specialist (and General care) Nurse
- Recognition authority: Socialstyrelsen for licensed nurse and midwife titles; the frozen associate occupations and protected assistant-nurse title have distinct scope.
- Language requirement: Socialstyrelsen requires Swedish-language ability for the professional-licence route. Swedish C1, qualifying Svenska/SVA 3, accepted Nordic-language evidence or a healthcare-provider language assessment may satisfy the route; no single test applies to every origin route.
- Shortage list: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission

## Sources

22 health professions require a statutory licence; protected titles, nurse-assistant protected title, EU/EEA and third-country route selectors. — https://legitimation.socialstyrelsen.se/en
JSON list[].id=658106; list[].name; list[].country; list[].directive; list[].qualification; list[].qualification_level — https://api.tech.ec.europa.eu/regprof20/prodmigration/regprofs?lang=EN&id_country=14&pagenum=1&maxrows=100&sort_col=1&sort_dir=ASC
NCO.json key=1; A=AT; B=2025; C=2143; D=Environmental engineers; E=Shortage; F=Low — https://eures.europa.eu/living-and-working/labour-shortages-and-surpluses-europe_en

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### APA

ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Nurse in Sweden: recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version df311402eb6298df79ee4fccb7455c2f]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/sweden/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

### BibTeX

```bibtex
@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_nurse-in-sweden-recognition-and-shortage-status_8da7af80c382,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Nurse in Sweden: recognition and shortage status},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {df311402eb6298df79ee4fccb7455c2f},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/sweden/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
```

### Markdown

[Nurse in Sweden: recognition and shortage status](https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/sweden/) — ImmigrationDB; ImmigrationDB; version df311402eb6298df79ee4fccb7455c2f; retrieved 2026-10-16; built 2026-10-16.

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- Canonical URL: https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/sweden/
- Title: Nurse in Sweden: recognition and shortage status
- Author: ImmigrationDB
- Publisher: ImmigrationDB
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- Version: `df311402eb6298df79ee4fccb7455c2f`
- Retrieved: 2026-10-16
- Built: 2026-10-16
- Compilation license: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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