OATHTAKING of new Nurses

ATTENTION:
Oathtaking of new nurses will be held on March 17, 2008 (monday) and March 18, 2008 (tuesday)with morning and afternoon session.

PLACE: SMX Convention Center, Pasay City (back of Mall Of Asia)

ATTIRE: All must come in their gala uniform, nurse cup, white duty shoes, without earings, hair not touching the collar and without corsage.

TICKETS: Tickets for the oathtaking will be available starting February 28, 2008 (thursday) at the Philippine Nurses' Association, 1663 F.T. Benitez Street, Malate Manila or a strickly first come first serve basis. You may call at telephone numbers 521-0937 or 536-1888 and look for Ms. Julie

Labor chief questions oath-taking of nurse-flunkers

By Leila Salaverria, Jerome Aning
Inquirer
First Posted 09:31pm (Mla time) 11/09/2006


LABOR Secretary Arturo Brion on Thursday gave the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) five days to explain why several students who did not pass the recent nursing board exams had been allowed to be inducted as nurses.

Brion issued the order after a panel of Department of Labor and Employment officials that he had formed to study the results of the leak-tainted tests found that some the original and recomputed scores of examinees had been altered.

“There were glaring discrepancies in the grades that the PRC needs to explain. Obviously there were manipulations,” said a member of the panel who asked not to be identified.

Brion did not go so far as to accuse the PRC of “grade-fixing,” as the panel had only examined the scores of about 400 examinees, or less than one percent of the 42,000 who took the tests.

According to the source, nearly half of the 400 examinees had scores in PRC’s original list that were different from the final list of passers that the commission issued after the leak controversy was resolved.

Reports of a leak had prompted the PRC to compute again the scores of all examinees. It decided that all who failed would have to retake the tests.

However, the Court of Appeals later ruled that only those who benefited from the leak should take the exam again. Thereafter, the PRC issued a third and final list of passers which included those who were “deemed passed” because their scores were near the passing grade of 75.

The panel discovered that some of those who were entered in the third list were named as flunkers in the original list.

“The more serious problem here is the fact that some of those who failed were able to take their oath so I think the PRC should explain who was responsible,” the source added.

NURSE LICENSURE EXAMINATION RESULTS

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 13,108 out of 24,287 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 and Zamboanga this December 2005. The results of examination with respect to Six hundred four (604) examinees were withheld pending final determination of their liabilities under the rules and regulations governing licensure examinations.

The members of the Board of Nursing are Eufemia F. Octaviano, Chairperson; Remedios L. Fernandez, Letty G. Kuan and Anesia B. Dionisio, Members.

The results were released in eleven (11) working days from the last day of examination.

Registration for the issuance of Professional Identification Card (ID) and Certificate of Registration for surnames A-C will be on January 9, 2006; D-F on January 10; G-J on January 11; K-M on January 12; N-P on January 13; Q-S on January 15; T-V on January 16 and XYZ on January 17. Those who cannot register on the scheduled date will only be registered starting January 18 , 2006. 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 nametag), 1 piece 1" x 1" picture (colored with white background and complete nametag), 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 2006-2009. Successful examinees should personally register and sign in the Roster of Registered Professionals.

The oathtaking ceremony of the successful examinees in the said examination as well as the previous ones who have not taken their Oath of Professional will be held before the Board on Monday, January 23, 2006 at 8:00 o'clock in the morning at the Araneta Coliseum, Araneta Center, Cubao, Quezon City; in Cebu and Iloilo City on January 25, 2006; in Davao City on January 27, 2006; in Cagayan de Oro, Zamboanga and Legazpi City on January 30, 2006; in Baguio City on February 2, 2006. Please contact the Accredited Professional Organization (Philippine Nurses Association) local chapter for further details. All must come in their white gala uniform, nurses cap, white duty shoes, without earrings, hair not touching the collar and without corsage.

No oathtaking will be allowed before the January 23, 2006 schedule in Manila. Oathtaking will be administered by the Board of Nursing as per RA 9173.

Tickets will be available starting Monday, January 9, 2006 at the Ground Floor, PRC - Main Building, Sampaloc, Manila.