Dominica has excelled at this year’s Regional Examination for Nurse Registration (RENR) boasting an eighty percent (80%) pass rate. This surpasses the regional rate of seventy-three point seven percent (73.7%).
Twenty (20) of the twenty-five (25) candidates from Dominica who sat the exam were successful.
The top performer for Dominica was Micarla St Rose with an eighty-three percent (83%) pass mark.
This was a monumental occasion for Dominica as, for the first time, candidates from two different training institutions on island sat the exam: nine (9) from the Faculty of Sciences at the Dominica State College and nine (9) from the Department of Nursing at the All Saints University School of Medicine.
Additionally, seven (7) overseas trained candidates sat the exam.
This also marks the very first cohort from the Department of Nursing at the All Saints University School of Medicine.
The Regional Examination for Nurse Registration (RENR) is managed by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) on behalf of the Regional Nursing Councils (RNC), and is the qualifying exam for nurse registration in the majority of CARICOM countries.
Congratulations to a bright and gifted class of nursing graduates. The nursing vein runs deep in my family so I can certainly appreciate the effort and commitment to service and sacrifice that these talented caregivers have pledged to render.
With the pull of migration being a very realistic prospect, I do hope that the current and ensuing governments of Dominica will do everything possible to ensure a competitive living wage and good working conditions for these frontline workers and service providers.
Congratulations to all the nurses.
You all worked harder than the rest,
You all should be deserving hard earn mastiff money..
Sincerest congratulation to all the successful nurses on passing the regional nursing exam.
A word of encouragement to those nurses who were not successful this time around. You only fail when you fall and don’t get up. Brush off yourselves and try again.
DNO, that Article lacks substance. You could have elaborated more on the Regional Examination for Nurse Registration (RENR) as perhaps not many persons may have heard about it. When was it established? Why do Nurses take that exam? What are the benefits.
Of the students/nurses who were successful, give a breakdown per institution. That is, State college and All Saints. How many from each and the pass rate of each student or generally.
Please have your journalists do some more in depth journalist work and aim for better and complete reporting. The standard of reporting generally is too basic and I know DNO can rise to a higher standard than this!
I don’t get it. 9+9 makes 18 and not 20.
HAHAHHAHA Toto, I was about to say the same thing.
Shame that only very few will stay in Dominica to give us the benefits of their skills because the PM of Dominica doesn’t see fit to reward individuals based on their skills but rather based on their loyalty and possession of the red bible. It’s a shame, it’s a crying shame. Corruption will kill our Country stone dead!