Roseau, Dominica, Wednesday, June 9, 2021- 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 the 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.