S.L. 458.20 Art. 18Successful student nurses to be awarded a certificate.

(1) Student nurses who, on the completion of the full period of training, pass the final examination shall be awarded a certificate signed by the chairman of the Council for Nurses and

Midwives, stating that the student nurse has undergone the prescribed course of studies at the training school and has been approved at the prescribed examinations.

(2) Such certificate shall be deemed to be the certificate referred to in Part IV of the Health Care Professions Act.

(3) Notwithstanding any of the provisions of these regulations, any person -

(a) whose name is entered in the roll of nurses in accordance with the provisions of the Health Care Professions Act, and

(b) who satisfies the conditions for admission to the training school in terms of regulation 3, and

(c) who after having undergone a twelve week bridging course of training at a school, has completed further training in accordance with the scheme of training laid down in the Second Schedule starting from the seventy-third week of training of such scheme of training, shall be entitled to sit for the final examination referred to in regulation 13 with the other students in the group who have at the time completed the full relative training in accordance with such scheme, and the provisions of regulation 12(2), (3) and (4), of regulations 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 and of the preceding sub-regulations of this regulation shall mutatis mutandis apply to such person.

(4) The principal nursing tutor may, on the advice of the Council for Nurses and Midwives, allocate in respect of any person to whom subregulation (3) applies, additional theoretical instruction in lieu of an equivalent period of practical nursing experience from such periods laid down in the Second Schedule: Provided that no such person shall miss more than fifty per cent of the period of practical nursing experience in any study block referred to in the Second Schedule after the seventy-third week of such training.