The Alabama Board of Nursing is on the cusp of launching a new process for certifying nursing support technicians, a process designed to both eliminate redundancies and ease workloads for nurses, of which there remains a growing shortage.
The new certification process will create a new credential for nursing support technicians, or NSTs, and thereby, make education and testing among NSTs uniform. It went into effect earlier this month after the passage of Senate Bill 25 earlier this year, sponsored by Sen. April Weaver, R-Brierfield, the Alabama Legislature’s only nurse.