The Federal Department of Nursing at the Ministry of Health yesterday announced the next nursing and midwifery registration examinations will be held on September 28.

Applications for the exams will be received on September 20, 21 and 24.

"All foreign national applicants who graduated from foreign nursing/midwifery programmes must have graduated with a minimal attainment of 60 per cent of the total marks," the department said.

All foreign applicants must either have had at least 1,000 hours of nursing experience or a year's experience of midwifery within the three years prior to applying for registration in the UAE.