Non-Compliant Filipino Nursing Schools Will Be Closed Down by CHED by June Next Year
Now this is getting serious.
Nursing schools have been warned by The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) on Friday that if they will not implement the revised nursing curriculum June next year, CHED will revoke their licenses to operate.
This came after reports reached CHED that only 30% of the country’s nursing schools are compliant to the CHED Memorandum Order No. 5 (CMO No. 5) series of 2008 which sets the revised policies and standard curriculum for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
The Coordinating Council of Private Education Associations (COCOPEA), which represents a consortium of private schools in the country with more than 2,500 members, has been fighting to junk the CMO No. 5, because this order raises the units required in BSN from 198 to 212 and related learning experience (RLE). Such ordinance will require the nursing students to take additional three summers to accommodate all the added units.
COCOPEA argued that aside from the financial burden this will bring to the students and parents as well, this order only mean that if a nursing student decides to shift to another course in his third year, he or she will be credited with less general education subjects in his new course resulting to a longer delay in his studies.
The group also pointed out that the professional courses under the new memorandum order were maximized to 125 units, of which 49 units are for related learning experience or RLE with a total of 2,499 exposure or contact hours.
COCOPEA is very determined to fight their petition to court because they believe that CHED failed to hold a public hearing as mandated under Republic Act 7722.
Despite COCOPEA’s objections, the Philippine Nursing Association (PNA), the Association of Deans of the Colleges of Nursing of the Philippines, and the Association of Private Hospitals in the Philippines, declared their strong support on the implementation of the CMO No. 5.
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President Arroyo Greeted Filipino Nurses, Doctors and Caregivers in the US
President Arroyo’s trip to the US will not be complete without thanking all Filipino-Americans and Filipino workers there who have contributed substantial help in boosting the Philippine economy by remitting dollars to the Philippines.
In her meetings with Filipino nurses and other health professionals at the Community Regional Medical Center, GMA conveys her thanks and gratitude to them and further ask them to help our fellowmen who have been devastated by the recent Frank. About 65% of nurses (or approximately 2000) working in the hospital are Filipino nurses.
Filipino nurses contributions are indeed commendable not only by the health industry but by the whole nation as well.
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Rape Video of a Nursing Student in Cavite is Circulating the Internet like Scandal
There is a recent rumour that a young Filipino nursing student has been gangraped in Cavite by several men and the incident has been video taped by one of the suspects.
The teenage nursing student seems to be drugged or drunken so she was easily molested by male college students. The sexual abuse happened in a house in Dasmarinas, Cavite where the girl went to with her boyfriend unsuspecting of the horrendous act that will befall her.
The video taped rape scene first proliferated through cellphone video clips and was feasted upon by the victims other schoolmates. Such rape video of this unsuspecting nursing student later reached the internet and spread like wildfire. Many voyeur sites and voyeurs are now feasting on this material now considered as the Cavite nursing rape sex scandal.
Why is this happening? Blame the cellphone.
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Lately, viewing sex scandals video taped through high tech phones has been a favorite trend in the Philippines by men and teenage boys. The camera feature on these cellphones are being used to capture sexual acts that are later circulated via file transfers from cellphone to cellphone and to the internet. There are so many blogs that now cater to this material and offer them for free download. Most sex video files are in 3gp format which suggest that they came from cellphones.
File hosting sites like Rapidshare and FileFactory have hosted several Filipino made sex scandals. The scandals are typically taken by the couples during one of their sexual adventures and upon breakup, the videos get to the internet through cracks. Others are stolen videos, voyeur shots and videocam shots converted to various file formats even cellphone formats.
There are also reports that cellphone repair shops normally are on the lookout for sex related videos on the phones they are repairing and they copy those sexy videos unknown to their clients. These videos will end up later on the internet for public viewing by horny fans.
This is a very sad fate for one of our future nurses. We hope this immoral act will soon be uncovered and the teenage nursing victim’s rapists be put to justice.
Be careful also with your cellphones. Be sure you clean your act before taking it to a repair shop. You never know what shameful thing can happen with those cellphone video clips that you only want to view in private.
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Becoming a Registered Filipino Nurse is getting more and more expensive
With the skyrocketing costs of living today, the cost of nursing education is expected to follow suit. Thanks to the current oil crisis, the investments to become a nurse are high but the returns are expected to be much higher once the candidate lands a job abroad.
So for the average Filipino family, sacrifices are necessary to get one of their best bet to become a practicing nurse. Of course the ultimate goal is to work in a foreign country.
Now, more than ever, the parents of aspiring Pinoy nurses are really contemplating if they can still beat and survive the rising costs of becoming a nurse. The cost has never been this high.
Let’s take a short journey in the piling up of investments immediately after high school.
The newbie college student takes up BS Nursing in one the universities or colleges that immediatelly sucks up mom and pop’s wallet for more or less P350,000 in 4 years. The tuition, costs of books, materials and daily allowances are the main culprit to this cost.
Then there comes the nursing reviewers offering their money pot to fill in. Approximately P15,000 to 30,000 big bucks will fly in 4 to 6 months time. Then you have to pay P900 just to take the board exams.
All hopes are high if the candidate passes the nursing board exams. (If not, bye bye moolah.) So assuming the nursing hopeful passes the board (claps rolling), then more money is needed to send your new nurse abroad.
If the Filipino nurse wants to work in the US (the primary destination of all nursing students today), then the parents need to shell out P20,000-25,000 to review for the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX). NCLEX is the standard qualifying test before a Pinoy nurse can work abroad.
But before taking the NCLEX, you have to pass the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) which normally costs around $450. Then there are those English proficiency tests such as the English Language Testing System (IELTS) that they need to hurdle as well which normally costs P8,000.
So more or less, the investments to become a nurse will cost your hardworking parents or yourself (if you are a working student) almost half a million pesos. Can you believe it?
Well that’s nothing compared to the amount of money you can get once you pass all hurdles to the ultimate working destination – the US. In America, the Filipino nurse can get P2 million a year on the average.
Not bad for a half a million investment. Don’t you think?
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