PRC considering more offshore board exams
Results under News, Nursing (NLE) on January 27, 2010 |
With the success (but with a low performance) of board exams the PRC conducted in Hongkong and other countries, the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) is considering more offshore licensure exams.
The first overseas exam held in Hong Kong last December, had only two successful passers out of the 90 examinees who took the exam. The nursing licensure exam was done in Hongkong after two weeks of the Nursing Licensure board exams for nursing graduates last November 2009 in the Philippines.
The two passers were Edgardo De Sesto Estrada and Jorlyn Boyayot Gagatam.
PRC’s Board of Nursing member Dean Marco Sto. Tomas suggested that the examinees must undergo a diagnostic test to prepare them to take the exams and increase the passing rate of the examinees.
“Instead of taking review classes, those who are not prepared may be trained by a competent agency like the Philippine Nursing Education Academy, the attached training academy of the Association of Deans of Philippine Colleges of Nursing”, he said.
“Better preparation must be made so as not to waste the hard-earned resources of these aspiring examinees.”, Sto. Tomas added.
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