Showing posts with label Nurses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nurses. Show all posts

Monday, July 5, 2010

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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Sunday, July 26, 2009

PRC bares 32,617 new nurses but laments lower passing rate

There are 32,617 new nurses, representing less than half of the total of 77,901 examinees in the state’s Nursing Licensure Examination (NLE) administered last June, the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) reported yesterday.

"The result is very disappointing. It is even lower by 2.64 per cent from the February 2009 test, which had a 44.51 per cent passing rate,’’ Padilla said of the 41.87 passing rate in the latest state board exam.

The test was conducted on June 6 and 7 in Metro Manila, Baguio City, Cebu, Legaspi, Lucena, Cagayan de Oro, Iloilo, Tuguegarao, Zamboanga, Pagadian, Tacloban, and Jolo.

Majority of the examinees were from Metro Manila (42,342) and Baguio City (11,336). The least number of examinees was in Jolo with only 134.

Padilla identified this batch’s topnotcher as Golda Manto Yap who was schooled in the Felipe R. Verallo Memorial Foundation in Boco, Cebu.

Meanwhile, Dr. Teresita Barcelo, president of the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) said the widening mortality rate in nursing board should be a cause for concern.

Citing test results from 2008 to June 2009, she the percentage has been on the downtrend, if not unchanged, despite alleged measures undertaken by authorities concerned.

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