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Province hopes new reinstatement path will make it easier for former Manitoba nurses to return to workforce

The province hopes changes it has made with nursing colleges in Manitoba will make it easier for former nurses to start working in the health-care system again.

Health Minister Uzoma Awagwara announced Wednesday that the government is working with three regulatory bodies to help former nurses who are not currently working, but have worked in the province’s health-care system in the last five years, get back into the field more quickly.

The three regulatory bodies — the College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba, the College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Manitoba and the College of Psychiatric Nurses of Manitoba — will lower the number of recent practice hours required for licensed practical nurses, registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses to be reinstated, the province said in a news release Wednesday.

The colleges will also allow for conditional registration or supervised returns to practice so former nurses have more options to be reinstated sooner.

Those changes are effective immediately, the province said in the release.

The former nurses must be in good standing with their respective regulatory college.

By this spring, the province hopes to have regulatory amendments in place that make those changes permanent.

Former nurses who want to return to work should contact their regulatory college for more information, the province said.

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