It has been brought to the attention of the Alliance For Change that there seems to be bureaucratic delays in the granting of registration to persons who would have successfully completed the nursing programme in the last quarter of 2013.
The Alliance For Change was reliably informed that while the students of the Linden School of Nursing and the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing would have been granted their registration that allows them to practice as RNs, some of the students from the Georgetown school are finding it difficult to get their RN status despite having successfully completed the programme and paying for their registration. Those affected are mostly those who would have been accepted into the nursing programme after applying to publicly placed advertisement. The AFC understands that other students who would have been sponsored by various agencies have not been affected.
The students are reportedly being shuttled between the School of Nursing, the Nursing Council and the Ministry of Health when they enquire about their registration.
After nursing students successfully complete their courses, they have to wait, in some cases, three to six months before they are placed by the Ministry of Health. In the meantime they continue to receive a stipend when they could have been receiving an RN’s salary.
The Registration Letter is only given to nurses when they are placed.
The Alliance For Change calls on those responsible to iron out the bureaucratic red tape so that all student nurses who are successful at their final exams would find placement at various institutions and receive their Registration letters.
Heaven knows, there is a shortage of RNs at our public health institutions. [END]
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