India, June 24 -- LUCKNOW Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak, who is also state's health minister, on Monday said staff nurses in the health department have now been designated as nursing officers.

"Also the nursing sister or nursing ward master will be called senior nursing officer. The change in their designation has been done in accordance with the central government's health department," Pathak said in a press note.

The Rajkiya Nurses' Sangh had given a memorandum based upon which the UP government took the decision. The designation of assistant nursing superintendent, deputy nursing superintendent, nursing superintendent and chief nursing officer have not been changed. For appointment to the post of nursing officer ...