June 2008 Philippine Nursing Board Exams Results
Finally, the June 2008 Philippine Nursing Board Exam results was released yesterday by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) and the Board of Nursing (BON).
Passing percentage this time is 43% with 27,765 board passers out of the 64,459 who have taken the exams last June 2008 in various parts of the country.
Oathtaking ceremony of the successful examinees shall be held at tne new SMX Convention Center at the SM Mall of Asia in Pasay City.
Other oathtaking schedules at other parts of the country are as follows:
REGION / CITY / DATE
Baguio August 22, 2008 -a.m. / p.m.
Pangasinan August 30, 2008
Tuguegarao August 22, 2008
Lucena August 30, 2008
Legazpi September 3, 2008 – a.m.
Cebu August 26, 2008 – 9:00 a.m.
Iloilo August 28, 2008 – 10:00 a.m. / 2:00 p.m.
Roxas City, Capiz August 27, 2008 -10:00 a.m.
Bohol August 28, 2008
Bacolod, Negros Occidental August 29, 2008 – 2:00 p.m.
Davao August 26, 2008
CARAGA August 22, 2008 – 3:00 p.m.
General Santos September 7, 2008
Cagayan De Oro September 5, 2008
Zamboanga September 2, 2008
We will post the successful examinees names in separate pages after this.
Congratulations to all board passers!
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DOLE Claimed That There is Still High Demand for Pinoy Nurses Worldwide Other Than US and UK
Quick to respond to the news and defend the nursing profession, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) springs hope to many as they claimed that the global demand for locally-trained Pinoy nurses still remains high especially in Western countries with an aging population.
Labor Secretary Marianito Roque further claimed that it is not the because of dwindling demand for nurses abroad that is the culprit but rather the lack of adequate and necessary experience of our Nurses that actually prevents many of them from finding overseas employment.
Roque admitted, however, that the US is indeed putting a cap on the entry of Filipino nurses but he said this should not prevent Filipinos from looking at other possible market abroad for capable nurses.
Roque has been in talks with the Saudi Arabian government lately and declared that the Saudis alone is in need of 10,000 nurses for their public hospitals and they are looking for Filipino nurses to fill in these vacancies. He said there is also a growing demand for Filipino nurses in Canada as well as Australia.
Earlier it is reported that according to Dr. Leah Samaco-Paquiz, president of the Philippine Nursing Association (PNA) , the demand for Filipino nurses had “plateaued” in the US since 2006 because of the “visa retrogression” there.
“In the US, the quota for visas has been filled up resulting in delayed processing of visas with current efforts focused on 2006 accepted applicants,” Paquiz said.
The Labor chief rebuked these claims of the PNA that an oversupply of Filipino nurses has resulted from the declining demand for nurses in the United States and United Kingdom and reiterated that the other countries of the world still demand and prefer the caring hands of Pinoy nurses.
I hope DOLE will be good in protecting the nurses interest at this point in time.
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Release of the June 2008 Philippine Nursing Board Exam Results
Much anticipation has been roaming around the nursing professions as the examinees awaits anxiously for the results of the June 2008 Philippine Nursing Board Exams.
The PRC Board of Nursing has issued a statement recently that they are “hoping” (using the word “maybe” released) to release the results by end of this month following certain incidents of hoax text messages claiming release dates and even passing results percentages. One text message claimed that the passing percentage is only 20% which probably rides on the most recent oversupply news on nurses. The BON said this is not true.
If you receive those text messages, please ignore them and don’t further pass them on to others. The BON promised to expedite the release for the benefit of the awaiting students and parents as well.
The results of the June 2008 Philippine Nursing Board exams will be posted here as soon as we have it.
Stay tuned.
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Take Up Nursing for the Right Reasons – It’s Not a Sure Ticket Anymore to Work Abroad…
Now the truth, once again, hurts. Nursing is not anymore a sure ticket to work abroad. Can you believe it?
If you are a Pinoy high school student reading this and you are still thinking of taking up Nursing as your college course, think again.
The recent reports of oversupply in the nursing profession and dwindling job opportunities here and abroad should make you cringe to think about how you can recover the expensive cost of taking up nursing and ending up unemployed at the end of 4 years. (No not again.)
Think about your parents and their expectations. Think about your own future. Do you really want to be a nurse someday to help sick people? Or do you want to take up nursing just to work abroad and make more money?
The key is to take up nursing right now for the right reasons thereby embedding in you and your families the right expectations. If your families are pressuring you to become a nurse for money, tell them it’s not the right time.
As it stands right now, most students take up Nursing without much heart into it. Others really want to become accountants, engineers, lawyers and other profession but was forced to take up Nursing in the hopes of becoming rich and making it big abroad like their predecessors have testified in advertisements from nursing schools. Others are influenced by their parents as a get-rich quick scheme to lift their families from the poverty line. This maybe one of the reasons why some nurses perform poorly at work.
The lure of Nursing to many Pinoy high school students is money from abroad. Again, I am not saying all but many or shall we say majority of the youth is geared to that direction. If you don’t agree with that statement, fine. I can hear ya.
But I am sure you will agree that some (again not all) parents force their children to take up Nursing for this reason only – money abroad. Many are brainwashed by the testimonies of successful Nurses abroad to come and take their chances as well.
So it’s the same bait those unscrupulous and incompetent fly-by-night nursing schools have been drooling in your face. But don’t bite that easily. If you do not watch the trend in your chosen profession and do not look beyond the obvious, you will be swindled – easily.
When money is not everything to you, then that’s the time to really take up Nursing. Otherwise, we advise you to think it through. Your future is at stake here.
We know that many Pinoy high school students planning to take up Nursing will be disheartened to see this blog but nevertheless we feel that we need to educate and bring light to the problem at hand – the expected oversupply in the future for the nursing profession.
It’s the law of supply and demand that is at work here. Excessive workforce supply without demand for work equals unemployment for Pinoy nurses. That’s a universal economic law and it bites us every time. It’s the same law that propels the prices of oil and other commodities you pay for your hard earned money. It goes up and down over time. Rumour has it that call center companies are not so eager to hire nursing graduates as call center agents.
Like you, we can only hope for the best. It’s your choice still but weigh your options based on the trends that you see today. Again the key is to take up nursing right for the right reasons. Taking up a profession is a decision with lifelong impact. You should really think of what you really want to do with your life in the future without regretting any of your decisions later.
And remember, the heart of taking up Nursing and becoming a Nurse is to help and care for sick people. If you don’t have that in your heart and you are only there for the money and to work abroad, then you may just be disappointed later.
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