I'd like to thank all of you for your presentations.
It's a bit of a disadvantage to us, when you cover so much technical information with numbers and the number of nurses in every category, not to have your presentations in front of us. That simply has to do with the French translation issue. They needed to be here in time for translation so that we could have them in front of us.
That's more for the committee in terms of giving our presenters time to get their presentations in so that they can be translated.
I want to pick up on the question of nurse practitioners. You've all talked about three different categories of nurses that are recognized, RNs, LPNs, and RPNs, and then registered psychiatric nurses in the west. Now we have nurse practitioners. My question has to do with the education process for nurse practitioners and who they are currently regulated by.
Ms. Coghlan, I know you referred to that. I'd ask you to expand a little bit for us on what currently exists and how nurse practitioners are being educated. Where does that take place? Is it a post-BN program, for example? As well, who are they currently regulated by?