Nova Scotia was part of a feasibility study looking at how registered psychiatric nurses could be used to improve health-care services in the Maritimes.
THE shortage of nurses could not be considered a crisis to support the plan to issue temporary licenses to nursing graduates who did not pass the board exam, the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) said Monday.
HEALTH Secretary Teodoro Herbosa, on Friday, said in a media conference held at the Department of Health (DoH) that all is not lost for nursing board examination flunkers.
THE Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) said on Thursday it is amenable to the proposal of Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa to hire nursing graduates who failed the board exam for hospital duty, as long as they are supervised by registered nurses.