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External Consultation: Documentation Guideline and Social Media Resource

The College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan (CRNS) is revising its Documentation Guideline and Social Media Resource. As part of the external consultation process, CRNS is inviting feedback on both documents from registrants and external partners, including the public.

Feedback will be collected through separate online surveys for each document. An updated draft version of each document is available to review as you complete the corresponding survey, allowing you to provide feedback on individual sections.

Documentation Guideline

Social Media Resource

The deadline to provide feedback for both consultations is September 3, 2026, at 4:30 pm. Your responses will be anonymous and confidential.

Saskatchewan Biosimilars Initiative: End of Initiative Period for Actemra, Stelara, and Xolair

The end of the Saskatchewan Biosimilars Initiative transition period for Actemra, Stelara and Xolair is July 31, 2026.

Starting August 1, 2026, the following reference biologics are no longer eligible for coverage under the Saskatchewan Drug Plan:

  • Actemra (tocilizumab)
  • Stelara (ustekinumab)
  • Xolair (omalizumab)

Under the Saskatchewan Biosimilars Initiative, patients receiving one of these reference biologics must transition to a biosimilar version to maintain Saskatchewan Drug Plan coverage of their treatment after July 31, 2026.

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External Consultation: Medication Management Guideline

The College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan (CRNS) is revising the Medication Management Guideline. As part of the external consultation process, the CRNS is seeking feedback on the guideline from registrants and external partners, including the public.

This review is being conducted through an online survey that will allow you to provide feedback on individual sections of the guideline document. A draft copy of the updated guideline is available to review while completing the survey.

The deadline to provide feedback is August 6, 2026, at 4:00 pm. Your responses will be anonymous and confidential.

Questions or comments are welcome and can be directed to Catharine Wirth at cwirth@crns.ca.

External Consultation: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Nursing Practice Resource

The College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan (CRNS), the College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Saskatchewan (CLPNS) and the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of Saskatchewan (CRPNS) invite you to provide feedback on the jointly developed Artificial Intelligence in Nursing Practice resource.

This review is being conducted through an online survey that will allow you to review and provide feedback on individual sections of the document. A draft copy of the resource is available to review while completing the survey.

Access the online survey here.

View the draft copy of Artificial Intelligence in Nursing Practice

The deadline to provide feedback is July 23, 2026, at 4:00 pm. Your responses will be anonymous and confidential.

  If you have any questions, please email Carole Reece, RN, at creece@crns.ca, Sabrina Warner, LPN, at swarner@clpns.com, or Rebecca Olney, RPN, at rolney@crpns.ca.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to provide feedback.

Updated Resource: Professional Boundaries and the Nurse-Client Relationship 

The updated Professional Boundaries and the Nurse-Client Relationship resource is now available on the CRNS website. 

This resource has been updated on the CRNS five-year review cycle to:  

  • reference the CRNS’s Code of Conduct;
  • further define key components, principles and concepts related to professional boundaries and the therapeutic nurse-client relationship;
  • include warning signs of crossing a boundary, providing nursing care to family members or friends, commencing relationships with a current or former client, gifts, technology usage; and,
  • include an updated decision-making framework for appropriate professional behaviour. 

If you have questions, please contact a CRNS Practice and Education Nursing Advisor by email at practiceadvice@crns.ca or by phone at 1.800.667.9945.

Upcoming process change for renewing Professional Liability Protection

We want to let you know about an upcoming change to the CRNS registration process related to professional liability protection (PLP).

Your CRNS registration has always included the fee for PLP, which is required by law as part of nursing licensure. In previous years, CRNS collected the fee and forwarded this payment to our PLP provider, the Canadian Nurses Protective Society (CNPS), on your behalf.

Beginning this year, registrants will now pay the fee for PLP directly to CNPS instead of it being collected by CRNS as part of registration.

What does this mean for me?
There is no change to the total cost of registration, this is a change to the process only. Your CRNS registration fee and the applicable fee for CNPS PLP and Core Services will remain the same. For a current breakdown of fees, see the CRNS Fee Schedule.

Why is there a change?
This change will help CNPS more easily identify nurses who are eligible for services, better support mobility across jurisdictions, and eventually help reduce duplicate PLP fees when transitioning between provinces or territories, where possible.

Direct registration with CNPS will also make it easier to identify you as a CNPS beneficiary, reduce verification steps if assistance is needed, and improve access to CNPS services and support.

Watch for more information
We’ll share step-by-step guidance and additional support closer to launch and again ahead of the registration period so you know exactly what to do. For now, we wanted to provide early awareness of this upcoming change.

To learn more about CNPS PLP and other services, visit the CNPS website. If you have any questions, please contact us at info@crns.ca.

External Consultation: Aesthetic Nursing Resource and Self-Employed Practice Guideline

The CRNS is revising the Aesthetic Nursing Resource and the Self-Employed Practice Guideline. As part of the external consultation process, the CRNS is seeking feedback on these documents from registrants and external partners, including the public. The consultation period is now open until June 4, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. 

Your responses will be anonymous and confidential. Each document has its own survey link that allows for sections of content to be viewed at a time. To view the documents in their entirety while completing the survey, please see the link to draft copies below. 

Access the Aesthetic Nursing Resource survey

Access the Self-Employed Practice Guideline survey

Questions or comments are welcome and can be directed to Virginia Deobald at vdeobald@crns.ca.

CCRNR Validation Survey: Entry-Level Competencies for Registered Nurses

The Canadian Council for Registered Nurse Regulators (CCRNR) is updating the entry-level competencies (ELCs) for Registered Nurses across Canada and is inviting your feedback through a short survey to help validate the draft updates.

Your insights will help the steering committee determine whether the draft set of ELCs accurately capture the full scope of contemporary nursing practice and identify anything that may have been overlooked or needs refinement.

You can access the survey here.

The survey is confidential, takes approximately 25-30 minutes to complete, and includes a save and continue later option. The deadline to provide feedback is April 17, 2026, at 3:00 pm.

If you have any questions, please contact the survey administrator, Sense & Nous, at survey@sensenous.ca. 

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