Monday, July 5, 2010

Successful Examinees in the SOCIAL WORKER LICENSURE EXAMINATION

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) has announced that 770 out of 1,321 passed the Social Worker Licensure Examination given by the Board for Social Workers in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi, Tuguegarao, and Zamboanga this June 2010.


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PRC: 869 new pharmacists

MANILA, Philippines - The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced Friday that 869 out of 1,261 passed the Pharmacist Licensure Examination given by the Board of Pharmacy in the cities of Manila, Baguio and Cebu this June 2010.


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2,947 to take nurses’ exam in CDO

THE Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) in Northern Mindanao is expecting 2,947 registered examinees to take the bi-yearly Nurses Licensure Examination (NLE) in Cagayan de Oro, which started Saturday and ends today, Sunday.


The PRC said these registered examinees are nursing graduates from the cities of Cagayan de Oro, Iligan, Malaybalay and the neighboring areas of Butuan City and Surigao City.

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Cagayan de Oro City is among the seven testing sites all over the country for the NLE. Other testing sites include Manila, Cebu, Iloilo, Baguio, Davao and Zamboanga.

Nationwide, over 80,000 nursing graduates are set to take the NLE.

In Cagayan de Oro, the identified testing venues are the Gusa National High School, City Central School, Capitol University and Liceo de Cagayan University, both college and high school.

The NLE is a two-day paper and pencil test. Per examination day, the examinees are expected to report at their respective testing venue at 6:00 o’clock in the morning for the general instructions while the exam proper starts at 8:00 o’clock.

For day one, the exam duration runs from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. but the second day will end at 1:00 p.m.

In a phone interview, one of the PRC secretaries said they estimated that 60 percent of the registered examinees in the region are fresh takers while the remaining 40 percent are repeaters. (Paul John A. Vesagas)

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