Ward Walkers is a privately-owned firm established in Dundee in 2004 with the specific aim of delivering high-quality work shoes to the nursingprofession.
Plaid Cymru Health Spokesperson Elin Jones called on the government to maintain the current bursary scheme as it is and ensure the continuous professional development in the nursingprofession.
Royal College of Nursing chief executive Dr Peter Carter, meanwhile, said it was "deeply saddening that a simple human error due to a cruel hoax could lead to the death of a dedicated and caring member of the nursingprofession".
She told The Andrew Marr Show that one of the emails she had received said "the nursingprofession is no longer the caring profession" while another said "since they made nursing a degree course the wrong kind of people are entering the profession... we do not need a load of snooty-nosed pen pushers".