THE result of the July 2010 Nursing Licensure Examination was a double victory for the Cebu Normal University (CNU). Aside of having five topnotchers, the school also landed in the top 10 among the 209 nursing schools (with 100 and more examinees) in the country in terms of the national passing percentage rate.
Over 37,000 out of 91, 008 passed the Nurse Licensure Examination that was given last July, according to a release by the Professional Regulatory Commission.
At least 37, 679 examinees passed the exams that were given in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Dagupan, Davao, Iloilo, La Union, Legazpi, Lucena, Pagadian, Pampanga, Tacloban, Tuguegarao, and Zamboanga, it said.
A GLUT of graduates has thinned out chances of employment for the country’s nurses, the owner of one of Cebu’s leading medical schools said yesterday.
Dr. Potenciano Larrazabal Jr., owner and president of Cebu Doctor’s University, said nursing schools should hire or help their nurses find employment in hospitals.
Amid the decline in the global demand for Filipino nurses, more graduates of science-related courses are now pursuing a degree in medicine, the Board of Medicine said over the weekend.
Board of Medicine member Jose Cueto said the lessening of employment opportunities for nurses abroad seems to have contributed to the increase in National Medical Admission Test (NMAT) examinees.
CALIFORNIA, United States—I love Filipino nurses.
Next to cheap garments at Wal-Mart and female impersonators, I’d have to put them on the top of the list as the Philippines’ leading export.
If the country had a team mascot, it would have to be the “Fighting Nurses.” (Notre Dame has the “Fighting Irish,” why not?)
So, of course, I’m alarmed by the news that a de facto ban against hiring Filipino nurses at the St. Luke’s Campus of Sutter Health’s California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) appears to be policy in San Francisco.
The Board Exam results and list of passers in the August 2010 Physician Licensure Exam have been released. The passing rate this year is 69.4%, with 1,597 passing the board out of 2,300 total examinees.
The Top 10 Examinees are as follows:
* 1. CHITRA DEEPAK PUNJABI (UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS – UST) – 89.42
* 2. PERCY GUANZON BALDERIA (UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES-MANILA) – 89.00
* 3. NIKKI DOREEN SO ANGBUE TE, (UST) – 88.33
* 4. GWENALYN GAIL CAPISTRANO GARCIA (UNIVERSITY OF THE EAST RAMON MAGSAYSAY MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER – UERM) – 88.17
* 5. JAMES PHILIP GARCES ESTEBAN (UP MANILA) – 87.92
* 6. MICHAEL CONRAD LUZ TONGOL (UST) – 87.83
* 7. PAUL VINCENT TIO CO (CEBU INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE) – 87.75
* 8. KAREN DE VILLA HERNANDEZ (UP MANILA) – 87.67
* 9. KRISTIANNE EMMANUELLE RAYO BAGAOISAN (UST) – 87.50
* 10. ROZELLE JADE RAMIREZ JAVIER (UST) – 87.42
Roll of Successful Examinees in the PHYSICIAN LICENSURE EXAMINATION
Held on AUGUST 7, 2010 &
Released on AUGUST 18, 2010
Lung Center of the Philippines Professional Education and Training Services
Flagship training (workshops) schedule for August – October 2010.
Workshops and Training Dates:
1. Pulmonary Tuberculosis Workshop (2nd batch) August 18, 2010
2. Asthma Management Workshop (2nd batch) September 22, 2010
3. Smoking Cessation Workshop (2nd batch) October 20, 2010
Is the practice among hospitals to charge training fees by as much as P20,000 on nurses legal?
Eastern Samar Ben Evardone is urging the appropriate committee in the House of Representatives to look into this, raising alarm that hospitals, both government and private, may already be exploiting the nurses.
Evardone’s House Resolution No. 195
Government and private hospitals have exploited the situation by charging as much as P20,000 for a three-month training, hiring and deploying them to staff positions in graveyard shifts and without pay, forcing our helpless nurses to bite the bullet and thereby compounding their miseries
Nurse Ever Lalin, like others in the first batch of 98 nurses and caregivers who went to Japan May last year for a training stint preparatory to taking the Japanese nursing licensure exam, had no prior lessons in the Niponggo language.
“Halimaw ah (A monster’s feat),” cheered nurse bloggers when it was announced last March that Ever, 34, was the only Filipino to pass the difficult licensure exam and the only foreign applicant to get it on the first try. Two Indonesians who had arrived a year earlier also passed. The exam included a proficiency test in “kanji,” Chinese characters that are a mindset away from those schooled in the Roman alphabet.
Guest Speaker: Mr. Bernard T. Hualda R.N., M.A.N.
*Former Chief Nurse of Novaliches General Hospital
