NURSING BOARD EXAM 06 --- TAKE 2??!!

[omad]

here's a reality I want to share with y'all:
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Commentary: On the nursing board exams scandal
By Renee F. De Guzman

San Fernando City, La Union (24 August) -- It is sad that the 42,000 nursing graduates who took the licensure exams last June may have to retake a new examinations.

Painful as it is and unfair too to those examinees who really worked hard and honestly passed the examinations. The apparent leaked questions in the examination probably benefited only a few hundred cheaters but the cheating scandal has tainted the entire Philippine nursing corps.

We have to bite the bullet if only to redeem the integrity of the Philippine Nursing Licensure Examination and the country itself.

National interest is at stake. This scandal gives a black eye to the country’s nurses who are considered among the best in the world and the most sought after by foreign employers.

Owing to the examination scandal, there are reports that US recruiters are turning away from nurses who took the board exams in June 2006 while Philippine hospital administrators are not also eager to hire any nurses from the same batch for they might proved to be incompetent having passed the exam by cheating.

Chairman Dante Ang of the Commission on Filipino Overseas (CFO) also reported that the application of the Philippines for inclusion on the list of international testing centers of the United States National Commission on Licensure (NCLEX) has been put on hold due to the scandal leakage issue.

Unfortunately, the credibility of the professional board exams has been compromised even as Malacanang said that it is an “isolated case and should not be cause for stigma” on Filipino nurses and other professionals who are among the best in the world. That the government will charge and punish the culprits who will be found guilty.

The country is placed in a disgraceful situation as even the integrity of previous nursing board examinations is now in question. The imperative solution is a bitter pill to swallow require all examinees to take a new set of examinations.

On the part of the government, through the Commission on Higher Education, without any dent of politics and business interests a tougher regulation should also be implemented on the mushrooming nursing schools and review centers across the country by closing down poor performing schools in the nursing board examinations. This is to improve quality and promote excellence in the nursing education which has been declining as seen in high failing rate in the yearly nursing board exams. Also, there is a need to replace the members of the Professional Regulation Commission with new ones who are not owners or deans of nursing schools or review centers.

This way, we are able to restore the credibility of our professional board examinations and at the same time make our professionals competitive both locally and globally.

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[Archer sensAtion]

wa man cguro descrimination sa retake...dapat ma filter sad oi, mas mka wonder jud if mka pasar sila sa retake...

if i-filter nila ma kita man jud nato kung kinsa ang ga likage...para ma klaro lang ba...

if ang mga hagbong gusto mo retake sa next batch nlang sila...ang mahitabo ana, maapil ra sila sa kahig...bati ug image...

and dapat wala na unta bayad ang retake or ang government na mo gasto...

[wak_wak]

for free man cguro ang volutary retake sa test 3 and 5..

hmmm for me retake nalang sila tanan, para ma clear ni tanan.. sila man pud luoy, kay ila batch ang na daut.. sila pud mag lisud ug work puhon.. retake nalang, napsar nila ang first exam (kato wala nag use leakage) for sure ma pasar nila ang second..

[shinggay]

mao bitaw na atong ipa retake sila na batch para makita gyud kung kinsa ang worthy makapassar! kung confident ka sa imong exam then nganong mahadlok man ta mu-retake? para ni sa kaayo sa mga sumusunod na batch. para sad ang Nursing sa Pinas deli ma branded as cheaters particularly that batch. nursing has been giving filipinos a big chances of working abroad, ato ning e-preserve na image para daghan pa makaabroad.

pwede ra jud dli magpaka self righteous uy...its really unfair for those who took the exams fair and square..ur just saying this coz dli man ikaw ang affected..wat if apil ka ana nga batch be?d best thing our government could do is to punish the offenders and re-take to ang mga students under the named review centers nga nanikas...by the way, there's no word such as cheaters,u could just say it as "CHEATS"

[realfussion]

ako ana uy sugot ko uy...hehehe bahala dli free basta 10% lang bayaran para bayad sa mga test papers....besides dri ra bitaw na cebu....atleast karon na a nako idea sa mga questions....

[mOOnsHAdoW]

hi. im new here sa istorya. and since my friend took and passed the nsg board exam, i should speak my mind about this. If there woul be a retake, there are two things we have have to consider: 1. are the examinees...all 17K of them..are ready to retake? - physically, financialy, and most of all MENTALLy and EMOTIONALLY?.. i mean, these things are priceless. and reviewing and preparing for a MAJOR exam is no stroll in the park. and its draining on their part too. and 2. do innocents have to be punished for the sins of the few?!... sa akong knowledge, the leakage only circulated sa manila. thank God wala diri sa cebu. For me, the bord exam is NOT a test of intelligence (kay even smart people, bisag cum laude, summa, etc still flunk the exams) but a test of READINESS. Question is, are the 17K newly registered nurses READY to re-take the exam?!.. i think not. and about the foreign employers hesitating to get Filipino nurses coming from bacth 2006?..whats the use of foreign exaams like NCLEX?..NCLEX, according to my friend, doesnt need a philippine license..and the foriegn nursinge exam is one way to REALLY TEST the competency of the nurse. diha na mailhan ang katag if competent nurse jud siya or dili. foriegn health care employers assured the batch to be taken in in their hospitals basta naka-take lag foriegn exms. Again, its a TEST for READINESS. I sympathize with my friend na NO TO RETAKE, becasue i believe she took the exam FAIR and SQUARE..she was ready man sad gud! No need for leakage. yeah and one more thing, this friend of mine have a classmate who also took and passed the board exam..and this classmate of hers has been diagnosed with cancer (advanced stage)..after sa board exams. fortunately, she passed. now, kung mag-retake, kaya kaha na niya?! i dont think so!

if branded ba jud ning batch ug "CHEATS" or "CHEATERS" well..sa maigo lang jud.

thanks for reading.

[SamuraiArcher]

kasagaran nga GO for re-take i think katong mga na-ailed sa exams..which majority...mao na daghan mi-uyon sa re-take....

@moonshadow - ur right, what's the sue of the foreign exams like NCLEX? as wat i previously posted....if dili gyud maayo ang atong nurses..they can't make it sa NCLEX....if maayo gyud ila training ...they can pass he NCLEX and for sure find a nursing job abroad...

[Archer sensAtion]

paniguro naman na ila tawn oi...

[Opyong]

Bitaw hagbong siguro mo mao na gusto mo retake yaaaaks

[omad]

most of the June batch examinees try their luck abroad but are still hounded by the stigma of "cheating".
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Nursing grads leave anyway to try luck abroad

By Vincent Cabreza
Inquirer
Last updated 08:48am (Mla time) 08/27/2006

BAGUIO CITY—Some government employees who passed the June licensure examinations for nurses have decided to try their luck abroad even without their licenses.

Jude Accos, a government forester who decided to shift to a nursing career, said many of his fellow government workers who did likewise were convinced that a Philippine nursing license was not necessary if they could pass the licensing exams given in other countries like the United States which conducts the National Council Licensure Examinations for Practical Nurses (NCLEx).

Accos said many of his fellow workers, including officials of regional agencies in Northern Luzon, had already filed for leaves of absence to explore job opportunities abroad or to take the NCLEx. He said he was only following their lead.

Officials of the Philippine Nurses Association said they anticipated an exodus of new nursing graduates despite the crisis caused by allegations of cheating in the June 11 and 12 nursing board exams.

Ruth Thelma Tingda, a PNA governor, said nothing would prevent the 42,000 examinees who took the tainted exams from trying their luck in other countries.

Stigma of cheating

“Countries in the Mediterranean don’t require Philippine licenses. Some states in America also do not make it their prerequisite [for hiring],” she said.

“But [the June examinees] still have to contend with the stigma of cheating. Overseas employers have already advised the [government] that they may not hire licensed nurses who took the June board exams,” said Mary Grace Lacanaria, chapter president of the Association of Deans of Philippine Nursing Schools.

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