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Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) pres­i­dent Idi Stu­art says more than half of the stu­dents who sit the Re­gion­al Ex­am­i­na­tion for Nurse Reg­is­tra­tion (RENR) fail the ex­ams.

“In Trinidad, there’s a 50 per cent fail­ure rate and it’s re­al­ly un­ac­cept­able and we need to plug that void,” he said yes­ter­day.

Stu­art said they were sur­prised by the fig­ures pre­sent­ed at a Min­istry of Health nurs­ing sem­i­nar last month, es­pe­cial­ly when they learned that Trinidad and To­ba­go stu­dents were per­form­ing the worst in the re­gion.