37,513 pass nursing board exam

6:29 pm | Saturday, August 20th, 2011

MANILA, Philippines—A total of 37,513 out of 78,135 passed the Nurse Licensure Examination, the Professional Regulation Commission announced on Saturday.

Jomel Garcia Lapides of the University of the Philippines-Manila topped the examination given by the Board of Nursing in July. Lapides garnered a rating of 88.4 percent.

Two University of Santo Tomas nursing graduates, Hazel Cortes Crisostomo and Beverly Lynne Yao Ong, ranked second. Each got 87.4 percent. See the complete list of Top 10 examinees

Three universities topped the list of 10 best performing schools, all having a 100 percent passing percentage. Cebu Normal University has 181 successful examinees, 161 for the West Visayas State University-La Paz, and 57 for the University of the Philippines-Manila.

The results for six examinees “were withheld pending final determination of their liabilities under the rules and regulations governing licensure examination,” the PRC said without elaborating.

“The dates and venues of all oathtaking for new nurses will be announced later,” it said.

Following are the successful examinees:

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1366775756 Maeliza Malazarte

the course is flexible. everyone doesnt get the chance to be real nurses, so in the meantime, we can be flight stewardess, teachers, medical transcriptionists etc. it all depends on the person and how he finds a job anyways. and it feels great to have extra letters after your name. :)

Anonymous

Every course is flexible when you put it that way. What a waste of specialized study.

Anonymous

I don’t think the Philippines has enough hospitals or clinics to absorb all of these new nurses – so I assume that many of these nurses are looking forward to overseas employment. With many of the western economies in trouble, it is doubtful they will be able to find work soon. What a shame. Our educational instutitions should retool and promote more skills that would allow graduates to become self -employed. I am talking about vocational and technical schools – but not sea-men. We have took much of those already.
Anonymous

Our government is addicted to sending people overseas to work and then remit money back to the Philippines. Perhaps to the PH government, it is easier to do that than to fix the problem of creating jobs locally. Furthermore, these government agencies earn lots of money from OFWs. . so much that it is difficult for these agencies to close shop. What agency would want to make itself redundant?

Anonymous

Tamad ang gobierno natin paasa-asa na lang sa mga remittances ng mga OFW. Ayaw gumawa ng mga hakbang kung papaano mag create ng jobs. Ang na-create nila sa ngayon ay mga investigation ano ba mapapala namin diyan puro politically publicity iyan. Sawang-sawa na kami diyan puro kagaguhan lang ang alam ninyo nagdurugo na ang mga puwet namin. Sigurado wala naman pupuntahan ang mga investigation kaya ayaw nila dalhin sa court dahil wala naman evidence puro allege and puro binta. Walang direction ang government na ito tulad di kay Cory.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XO4C5N2KEQZ6D2Q7FGTWB4TCZ4 hammie

37,513 pass nursing board exam for sure will be jobless.

Anonymous

You mean 100% will be jobless? And you are SURE? I know many of them will be jobless and underemployed pero hindi LAHAT. Mind you, marami akong kilala na may work na agad at kasama doon ang kuya ko. Nasa pagsisikap din kasi ng graduates, though may kakulangan talaga ang government. Pero hindi naman pwedeng isisi lahat sa government di ba po?

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W7P7PLY42ACD5BI226LEE4BC4Y Three Spam

100 percent ba ng 37,513 ang 37,000? kung ang tinutukoy mo ay ang post sa baba, ang bobo mo. siguro nursing student ka rin no?
Anonymous

Hehehe. First, nasa kabilang page na yung nireplyan kong post. Second, hindi po ako bobo. And lastly, hindi ako nursing student. Sorry if walang tumama sa sinabi mo. :)))

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000430542057 Harold Bautista

Congratulations to our new nurses. And just ignore the cynics, after all they’ve done nothing for you to achieve what you’ve achieve now. Think positive, you guys are still young and you have a great future ahead of you if you will simply focus on achieving what you want. Of course you need to understand the limitations but take them as a challenge and never as a stumbling bloc for you to wallow in despair and hopelessness.

You and you alone will chart your own destiny. Again, kudos to all of you.
Anonymous

From my experience, here are the top 3 reasons why people go for nursing: 1. Mabilis makapag abroad. 2. Malaki daw kita. 3. Ayaw ko sa math.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W7P7PLY42ACD5BI226LEE4BC4Y Three Spam

last 15 years pa yata yang sa yo. :D

Anonymous

I’m living here in Houston and I heard from my wife that their hospital is recruiting U.S. nursing graduates, so I don’t know where these graduates will go because right now, a lot of people here are also looking for jobs.
Anonymous

I think this is now the trend here in America. Hospitals hiring U.S. nursing graduates and so if that is the case, these nurses will have a hard time coming to this country.

Anonymous

Palagay ko call center ang bagsak nila. Bagsak na nga economy ng US, maraming layoffs, housing crash, unemployment high, business closed. Taxes so high, rental apartment in California fantastic so high. Latest news social security in the brink of insolvency. America are no longer green pasture..

Anonymous

I even have a nurse friend who is already here and passed already all the exams for the U.S. qualification but she can’t even land a nursing job here. She is very determined but the USCIS is so bias with nursing graduates from our country and did not approve her working visa. Now she is on a student visa and works as a clerk in our Physical therapy clinic.
Anonymous

37,000 more to join the ranks of unemployed Filipinos.

37,513 pass nursing board exam

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