JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — Governor Mark Gordon today signed an Executive Order rescinding the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. To facilitate efforts to address the state’s nursing shortage, the governor also signed an Executive Order to allow working nurses time to get licensed in Wyoming.
“Wyoming has done a wonderful job in persevering through the pandemic. The emergency is over, but people’s responsibility to one another is not,” Gordon said. “There is one lingering concern—Wyoming’s shortage of healthcare workers. This shortage includes nurses, and has existed long-before COVID and was only exacerbated by the pandemic. Therefore, Executive Order 2022-02 (Nurse and Nursing Assistant Staffing Emergency and Temporary Relief) is effective today and remains in effect for 60 days.”
Gordon added he was proud Wyoming was one of seven states to not issue a stay at home order or impose a statewide mask mandate.
Executive Order 2022-02 allows nurses and nursing assistants licensed in other jurisdictions to provide nursing care in Wyoming in order to address staffing shortages.
