Working as a nurse in Sweden
What official sources say about working as a nurse in Sweden: how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
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.
- Shortage list
- Listed
Regulation and recognition
Nurse is a regulated profession in Sweden.
- 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
An exact current shortage-list record is published for nurse in Sweden: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission; EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
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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 citation
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