{"id":615,"date":"2020-04-06T20:28:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T20:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/?p=615"},"modified":"2020-08-04T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:24:33","slug":"covid-news-california-to-loosen-nursing-student-rules-in-response-to-coronavirus-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medely.com\/blog\/covid-news-california-to-loosen-nursing-student-rules-in-response-to-coronavirus-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID News &#8211; California to loosen nursing student rules in response to coronavirus crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-616\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/400px-Seal_of_California.svg-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medely.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/400px-Seal_of_California.svg-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/medely.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/400px-Seal_of_California.svg-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/medely.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/400px-Seal_of_California.svg.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 141px) 100vw, 141px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>California Department of Consumer Affairs Director Kimberly Kirchmeyer announced the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dca.ca.gov\/licensees\/clinical_hours.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">emergency waiver<\/a>\u00a0Friday night, saying the state expects the change will help 9,000 nursing students meet their clinical training requirements. Nursing schools had for weeks\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-03-26\/coronavirus-nursing-schools-say-california-must-act-or-lose-10-000-nurses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pleaded with state officials<\/a>\u00a0to reduce the number of hours their students are required to train in hospitals after many clinical rotations were canceled as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>See emergency waiver here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dca.ca.gov\/licensees\/clinical_hours.pdf\">https:\/\/www.dca.ca.gov\/licensees\/clinical_hours.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Department of Consumer Affairs Director Kimberly Kirchmeyer announced the\u00a0emergency waiver\u00a0Friday night, saying the state expects the change will help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,4,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medely","category-nurse-staffing","category-nursing","category-nursing-guide","category-travel-nursing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>COVID News - California to loosen nursing student rules in response to coronavirus crisis | Medely | Build a better workforce. 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