nursing board exam 2008 updates

[vixenshoppe]

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hi mga soon-to-be-colleagues pls post whatever topic you can contribute for this upcoming november 29-30, 2008 nursing board exams, para ma nurses ta tanan hehe...

[peewee_toot]

asa ka ng-review bro?

cancer points, needle sizes, myasthemia gravis, ecg.

mura mag leakege.

[vixenshoppe]

up sa ta gamay

[La Trobe]

pinaka daghan daw ug mo take ron??

sa history sa nursing board exam??

i've read it in a national news paper.....

[peewee_toot]

^^yup. pinaka daghan rn bro. mao bitaw ila gi-november ang exam.

[jhay86]

gudluck sa mga mo take! hapit na rba.

[mantech.wilbert]

hahahaha..

ate sa ako migo mo take nah..

ahm unsay nindot nga review center.??

[histrionic0311]

hahai, the pressure is upon us..

so many things to learn, so little time..

13 days to go and it is our ultimate test of becoming a professional..

God bless to all who will take the November Nursing Licensure Examination

@La Trobe: it has confirmed that 88 thousand nursing graduates are going to take the exam this november.. gud luck nalang namo ani.. huhu

[peewee_toot]

pray mo namo guyz ha nga mka pasar mi. hapit na ra ba jd.

[eskeryon]

Kabobohan sa PRC is shown on this press release in the Philippine Star November 17, 2008 issue. First if they say that we have poor nursing graduates as there are 50% more that flunk the board exam then how about in engineering wherein only 30 - 40% pass the board exam. Does it mean our engineering graduates are much poorer than that of nursing. With this as the passing percentage for nursing then we have good nursing graduates! Finally PRC controls the flow of professionals thus if they want to have a good performance then increase the passing percentage!



'50% flunk nurse exam every year'
By Mayen Jaymalin Updated November 17, 2008 12:00 AM

Half of nursing graduates flunk the nursing licensure examination every year, according to the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).

Marco Sto. Tomas, PRC Board of Nursing member, said the passing rate in the nursing licensure examination has been on the decline in the past decade.

“The number of board examinees is on the rise since year 2000, but the passing rate exhibited a declining trend from a high of 55.8 percent in 1998 to a low of 45.2 percent in 2006 or an annual average of 49.5 percent,” he said.

Sto. Tomas said the PRC has recorded a total of 224,961 nursing board flunkers from 1998 to June 2008.

“One out of every five nursing schools registers a zero passing mark, which is indicative of the questionable quality of education and/or decreasing quality of students admitted for the nursing profession,” he said.

In June 2008, the passing rate 43.1 percent was lower than the average registered for the period 1998-2007, he added.

Sto. Tomas said based on government figures, the country has 480,992 licensed nurses out of the 523,272 who passed the nursing board examination between 1952 and the present.

“Not because they were not employed in hospitals, they are already jobless because many registered nurses are opting to work in other companies like call centers,” he said.

Actually, there is a surplus of nurses because of a market slowdown since 2006 due mainly to the retrogression in the United States, he added.

Sto. Tomas said enrollees in nursing schools have ballooned from 27,833 in academic year 2000-2001 to a record high of 453,896 in academic year 2006-2007, or an annual average growth rate of 62 percent.

“The number of graduates exhibited an increasing trend for the period 2000–2005, with 140.5 percent increase in the number of graduates in SY 2004–2005,” he said.

Sto. Tomas said the country’s health care delivery system is not experiencing a vacuum even if more experienced nurses go abroad. “Most nurses locally employed are new graduates who lack experience and skills which poses serious implications on the quality of health care provided our own countrymen,” he said.