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Nurses to be Included in The Regulated Health Professions Act

  • Kelvin Goertzen, Author
  • Member of the Legislative Assembly, Steinbach

I am pleased to announce that regulations are now in place to bring the registered nursing profession under The Regulated Health Professions Act (RHPA) effective May 31, 2018.

The RHPA sets out consistent rules and processes for governance, registration, complaints and discipline, as well as regulation and bylaw making authority. Two regulations are required to bring the registered nursing profession under the RHPA. The first is a College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba council regulation to govern the affairs of the regulatory body, and the second is a practice regulation that sets out the scope of practice of the profession including the reserved acts that are authorized for the profession.

The regulations will also create a new designation of registered nursing, the Registered Nurse Authorized Prescriber. These nurses will be allowed to independently order diagnostic tests and prescribe medications for patient populations that require registered nursing care related to travel health, reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections, blood-borne pathogens and diabetes health.

I want to congratulate the College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba for their hard work in achieving this milestone for its profession.

For more information on the RHPA, visit gov.mb.ca.

This post was published on 09/18/2017