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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PNA Supports CHED’s Move to Change Nursing Curriculum Despite Protests by Other Parties
Last Tuesday, the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) approves the implementation of a Commission on Higher Education (CHED) memorandum circular no. 5 that imposes a new curriculum on nursing schools on Tuesday.
CHED’s new memo, also known as the enhanced Four-Year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program, adds another 33 units to the present nursing curriculum’s 169 units. This will technically result to adding three summer classes to the present eight-semester course of aspiring Filipino Nurses.
“The PNA fully believes and supports the rationale of the new and enhanced four-year BSB program,” the Nurses Group said in its position paper signed by Leah Primitiva Samaco-Paquiz, its national president.
With this course enhancement, the number of hours for practicum will also be increased to 2,499 from the present 2,142-hour requirement.
PNA released their position as leaders of the largest consortium of private colleges and universities in the Philippines, as well as the umbrella organization of five educational associations, expressed their disapproval of this move from CHED.
See our initial report on these protests here.
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