Nursing Regulations Waived To Meet COVID-19 Outbreak Needs

The Governor of Texas authorized an innovative framework to increase the number of nurses to join the expanding COVID-19 care team. On March 21, 2020, Texas Governor Greg Abbott waived several regulations that will expand Texas’ active nursing workforce by doing the following:

• Allowing temporary permit extensions to practice for graduate nurses and graduate vocational nurses who have yet to take the licensing exam.
• Allowing students in their final year of nursing school to meet their clinical objectives by exceeding the 50% limit on simulated experiences.
• Allowing nurses with inactive licenses or retired nurses to reactivate their licenses.

Governor Abbott said in a statement, "Nurses are essential to our ability to test for this coronavirus and provide care for COVID-19 patients. Suspending these regulations will allow us to bring additional skilled nurses into the workforce to assist with our efforts and enhance our COVID-19 response."

COVID-19 news published by Coronavirus Today.