Popular courses such as nursing no longer recommended by CHED

“POPULAR courses may not be those recommended courses,” said Commission on Higher Education (Ched)-Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) Director IV Dr. Freddie Bernal trying to prevent more students from enrolling in popular courses but not recommended ones.

The Ched issued a memorandum order asking for a moratorium on the opening of all undergraduate programs in Business Administration, Nursing, Teacher Education, Hotel and Restaurant Management, and Information Technology Education for the school year 2011-2012.

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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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Room Assignments for Nurses Licensure Examination, June 6 & 7, 2009

Room Assignments for Nurses Licensure Examination, June 6 & 7, 2009.

* COMPLETE
* REMOVAL

NOTE: For those who are not in the list, please see the Application Division, PRC-Manila. Bring your Notice of Admission (NOA), NSO Birth Certificate, Transcript of Records (TOR) and other credentials.

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November 2008 Nurse Licensure Examination released on February 18, 2009

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 39,455 out of 88,649 passed the Nurse Licensure Examination given by the Board of Nursing in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi, Lucena, Tacloban, Tuguegarao, Sulu and Zamboanga last November 2008.

The members of the Board of Nursing are Carmencita M. Abaquin, Chairman; Leonila A. Faire, Betty F. Merritt, Perla G. Po, Marco Antonio C. Sto.Tomas, Yolanda C. Arugay and Amelia B. Rosales.

Those who will register are required to bring the following: duly accomplished Oath Form or Panunumpa ng Propesyonal, current Community Tax Certificate (cedula), 2 pieces passport size picture (colored with white background and complete name tag), 1 piece 1” x 1” picture (colored with white background and complete name tag), 2 sets of metered documentary stamps, and 1 short brown envelope with name and profession; and to pay the Initial Registration Fee of P600 and Annual Registration Fee of P450 for 2009-2012. Successful examinees should personally register and sign in the Roster of Registered Professionals.

The oathtaking ceremony of the successful examinees in the said examination in Manila as well as the previous ones who have not taken their Oath of Professional will be held before the Board on Monday and Tuesday, April 6 and 7, 2009, with morning (8:00 A.M.) and afternoon (1:00 P.M.) sessions at the SMX Convention Center, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City. All must come in their white gala uniform, nurses cap, white duty shoes, without earrings, hair not touching the collar and without corsage.

Oathtaking tickets for the National Capital Region (NCR) and nearby regions will be available at the Philippines Nurses Association (PNA) at 1663 F.T. Benitez Street, Malate Manila, starting March 2, 2009.

All regional oathtaking schedules will be posted in the BON website: www.bonphilippines.org.

The top performing schools in the November 2008 Nurse Licensure Examination are the following:

A. WITH 100 AND MORE EXAMINEES

RANK	SCHOOL	TOTAL NO. OF EXAM.	TOTAL NO. PASSED	PERCENTAGE PASSED
1	XAVIER UNIVERSITY	341	336	99.00%
2	SILLIMAN UNIVERSITY	375	368	98.00%
3	CENTRAL PHILIPPINE UNIVERSITY	512	496	97.00%
.	SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY	117	114	97.00%
.	SOUTHERN LUZON POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE – LUCBAN	141	137	97.00%

NOTHING FOLLOWS----------------------

B. WITH 30-99 EXAMINEES

RANK	SCHOOL	TOTAL NO. OF EXAM.	TOTAL NO. PASSED	PERCENTAGE PASSED
1	SAINT PAUL UNIVERSITY – ILOILO	97	97	100.00%
.	UNIVERSITY OF SAINT LOUIS – TUGUEGARAO	82	82	100.00%
.	FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY	36	36	100.00%
2	CHINESE GENERAL HOSPITAL COLLEGE OF NURSING & LIBERAL ARTS	99	97	98.00%
3	MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY – MARAWI CITY	81	75	93.00%

NOTHING FOLLOWS----------------------

The performance of schools in the November 2008 Nurse Licensure Examination as per R.A. 8981 otherwise known as the PRC Modernization Act of 2000 Section 7(m) “To monitor the performance of schools in licensure examinations and publish the results thereof in a newspaper of national circulation” is as follows: (Any discrepancy in the report is not intentional on the part of the Commission, but rather due to miscoding of school codes by the examinees themselves. Concerned schools may write the Commission for correction.) Click here to view.

The successful examinees who garnered the ten (10) highest places are the following: Click here to view.

The list of successful examinees. Click here to view.

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November 2008 Nursing Board Exam Results

39,455 Passed the November 2008 Nursing Board Examinations by the Professional Regulation Commission. That’s 44.51% out of 88,649 examinees that took the November 2008 Nursing Board have passed, the Professional Regulatory Commission has announced.

Those who will register are required to bring the following: duly accomplished Oath Form or Panunumpa ng Propesyonal, current Community Tax Certificate (cedula), 2 pieces passport size picture (colored with white background and complete name tag), 1 piece 1″ x 1″ picture (colored with white background and complete name tag), 2 sets of metered documentary stamps, and 1 short brown envelope with name and profession; and to pay the Initial Registration Fee of P600 and Annual Registration Fee of P450 for 2009-2012. Successful examinees should personally register and sign in the Roster of Registered Professionals.

The oathtaking ceremony of the successful examinees in the said examination in Manila as well as the previous ones who have not taken their Oath of Professional will be held before the Board on Monday and Tuesday, April 6 and 7, 2009, with morning (8:00 A.M.) and afternoon (1:00 P.M.) sessions at the SMX Convention Center, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City. All must come in their white gala uniform, nurses cap, white duty shoes, without earrings, hair not touching the collar and without corsage.

Oathtaking tickets for the National Capital Region (NCR) and nearby regions will be available at the Philippines Nurses Association (PNA) at 1663 F.T. Benitez Street, Malate Manila, starting March 2, 2009.

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