The bill includes four key measures to address the shortage: licensing reciprocity between other states and countries, higher enrollment caps, looser nursing-instructor qualifications and restructuring the state Board of Nursing.
The surge, prompted by the highly contagious omicron variant, has resulted in an increased demand for COVID-19 testing and vaccines — services the county health department also administers.
Hopkinsville, spared from the devastation of the weekend storms, is now in a position to help people in surrounding communities whose homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed.
Several homes were heavily damaged or destroyed in Southern Christian County late Friday night and county rescue team members and sheriff’s deputies began searching Pembroke and surrounding areas Saturday morning for anyone who was hurt or trapped in storm wreckage.
