NLE RESULTS DECEMBER 2010 -nursing licensure exam results
The members of the Board of Nursing are Carmencita M. Abaquin, Chairman; Leonila A. Faire, Betty F. Merritt, Perla G. Po, Marco Antonio C. Sto.Tomas, Yolanda C. Arugay and Amelia B. Rosales , Members.
The results of examination with respect to two (2) examinees were withheld pending final determination of their liabilities under the rules and regulations governing licensure examination.
Those who will register are required to bring the following: duly accomplished Oath Form or Panunumpa ng Propesyonal, current Community Tax Certificate (cedula), 2 pieces passport size picture (colored with white background and complete name tag), 1 piece 1” x 1” picture (colored with white background and complete name tag), 2 sets of metered documentary stamps, and 1 short brown envelope with name and profession; and to pay the Initial Registration Fee of P600 and Annual Registration Fee of P450 for 2011-2014. Successful examinees should personally register and sign in the Roster of Registered Professionals.
The oathtaking ceremony of the successful examinees in the said examination in Manila as well as the previous ones who have not taken their Oath of Professional will be held before the Board on Monday and Tuesday, March 14 and 15, 2011, with morning (8:00 A.M.) and afternoon (1:00 P.M.) sessions at the SMX Convention Center, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City. All must come in their white gala uniform, nurse’s cap, white duty shoes, without earrings, hair not touching the collar and without corsage .
Oathtaking tickets for the National Capital Region (NCR) and nearby regions will be available at the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) at 1663 F.T. Benitez Street, Malate, Manila, from February 28, 2011 on a “first come first serve” basis. Online Priority number is required to avail of tickets. Please logon to http://www.nurseoathtaking.net. “No Online Priority Slip, No access to tickets ”.
All regional oathtaking schedules will be posted in the BON website: www.bonphilippines.org .
NLE RESULTS DECEMBER 2010 -
Japanese gov't to make nursing exams easier
source: mb.com.ph
MANILA, Philippines – Following the dismal passing percentage of those who are taking the national licensure in Japan for “kangoshi” (nurses) and “kaigofukushishi” (caregiver), the Japanese government has begun to introduce several improvements to make the examination easier for foreign applicants by replacing difficult words with easier ones.
In a press briefing held in Pasay City Tuesday, the Japanese Embassy disclosed that the improvement started last year by replacing too technical Japanese medical terms into the more popularly used and much easier English words like diabetes, cataract and pulmonary tuberculosis, among others.
Embassy officials pointed out that before only the Japanese equivalent of diabetes is used "but now we are using the English word in the examination papers of the prospective nurses and caregivers. We now add English words to the specific name of the disease."
So far, only one Filipina nurse passed the qualification exam since the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) took effect about three years ago.
The Embassy said although there are already two batches of candidate nurses and caregivers who are currently in Japan, the Japanese Emnassy is still selecting the candidates who will compose the third batch who will head off to Japan "sometime in the spring of this year."
Those who will be chosen for the third batch, the Japanse Embassy said it will provide additional preliminary Japanese language training here in Manila before they enter Japan which is equivalent to 2-3 months training.
This is apart from the six-month training that they will undergo upon entry to Japan, a process stipulated in JPEPA.
'Nurse hiring in UK stable despite budget cuts'
LONDON - Filipino nurse recruitment in Britain should remain stable amid cuts on immigration and public spending in the UK, said the Philippine embassy in London.
Speaking from an event at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Essex, embassy officials welcomed newly recruited nurses and reassured other nurses from the Philippines that job opportunities in the UK should continue to become available.
“So far, the UK is not shutting its doors to foreign workers,” said Atty. Jainal Rasul, Labor Attache at the Philippine embassy in London, in an interview with The Filipino Channel.
He continued: “It has not declared any ban in the hiring of foreign workers, especially nurses. There will be reductions, of course, due to some changes, but in the long term, there will be more nurses coming in due to shortages of nurses right within the UK.”
He added that recent changes in British immigration policies should not alarm Filipino migrants who are already in the UK.
“As announced by the UK Border Agency, for those already in the UK - nurses, senior carers, and other professionals - they will not be affected by the proposed interim or permanent limit of the UK government,” he explained.
In 2011, the British government will implement changes over immigration and public spending, both of which could affect overseas recruitment in the UK, including nurses and other skilled workers from the Philippines.
Media reports suggest that an immigration cap will be implemented in the UK from April 2011, which means that only 21,700 skilled workers from outside the European Economic Area will be allowed entry into its borders, a cut of approximately 6,300 compared to 2009.
The government will also dramatically reduce its public spending budget, including a cut of £2.3 billion from the National Health Service, which funds most of the hospitals in the UK.
The cuts are fueled by financial problems caused by the recent global recession.
World-Class Nurses
Despite the cuts, the Philippine embassy is optimistic in the stability of nurse recruitment from the Philippines due to the quality of work delivered by Filipino nurses.
“The feedback has been very positive. We’ve heard officials of the UK government commending us on the hard work, dedication and competence of our Filipino nurses, and we’re very happy about those comments,” revealed Reynaldo Catapang, Charges d’Affaires at the Philippine embassy in London.
There are currently 50,000 Filipino nurses working in hospitals all over Britain, including 100 nurses at the Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH).
“We’ve successfully recruited a whole batch of Filipino nurses 10 years ago. A lot of those nurses are still with us, and enjoying their period with us,” said Gerald Coteman, Chairman of PAH.
He added: “They’ve learnt a great deal and they’re contributing significantly to services that we provide here. We’ve gone out a second time to recruit from that source, and we’re very pleased with the Filipino nurses that joined us 10 years ago that we felt we’d have more of the same. We really welcome these additional nurses, and hopefully they’ll be fitting in and enjoying their time with us.”
Terry Lopez-Bishop from Bataan is one of the success stories at PAH. Trained at Saint Louis University in Baguio City, she has consistently impressed her employers and colleagues since her recruitment in 2000. She has been promoted consistently and is now a ward manager at the hospital.
“At first, it was a shock, because it’s totally different from back home,” she revealed. “The important thing to remember is we have to learn from each other - what you can give and what you can learn from another culture - and put it all together to whatever will be helpful to the patients and the hospital as well.”
She added: “Filipino nurses are able to adapt well, I believe, with the culture in here, and integrate well into the hospital and how it works in meeting standards and the needs of the patients and of the country.”
Opportunities
Thousands of Filipino nurses continue to aspire to work in the UK and other Western countries for the life-changing opportunities it affords.
“I would like to adapt here, have career progression, and inspire others, especially my colleagues back in the Philippines,” explained Sheila Dalubar, one of the newly recruited nurses at PAH.
She continued: “I wanted to come in here and explore the job opportunities that the UK is offering, and to some day bring my family here as well to enjoy the life that I’m enjoying right now. It’s been good so far because most of the people in here are really supportive and approachable, especially in the ward that I’m working in.”
According to Lopez-Bishop, the key to success as a nurse is an "open mind" and a helpful attitude.
“My advice is just be open. Do not unlearn what you have learned before. Meet halfway, and see what you can contribute, what you could do to help, and learn more as well. Have an open mind, because nursing itself is dynamic, it evolves. You just have to accept that the changes will be for the better of delivering services to the patients,” she concludes.
Nursing continues to be a popular career choice for young Filipinos who wish to work overseas, and despite the recent changes in UK policies, nurse recruitment from the Philippines should remain stable in the foreseeable future.
RN Heals a band-aid treatment for an ailing health care system
THIS IS in reaction to a news story titled “Nurses swamp DOLE for rural jobs.” (Inquirer, 1/20/11)
There are about 200,000 unemployed nurses in the Philippines and 40,000 more are expected to be added by June. Preying on the desperation of many nurses to find jobs here or abroad, new types of “businesses,” including but not limited to the now infamous “nursing-training for a fee,” have mushroomed these past few years.
Thanks to the efforts of several health advocacy groups and the nursing community, this matter is being addressed by the Philippine Senate and other policymaking agencies of the government. I hope their response will not be another case of “ningas cogon.”
In rehashing the President Gloria Arroyo’s NARS (Nurses Assigned in Rural Areas) program into RN Heals (Registered Nurses for Health Enhancement And Local Service), the Aquino administration is admitting two realities: first, there is a high demand for the services of nurses in the Philippines; second, hundreds of poor communities in cities and rural areas direly need the services of professional health workers.
A study initiated by the Health Alliance for Democracy showed that seven out of 10 patients die without any medical attention. This paints a sad picture of the state of our country’s healthcare system. The irony of ironies is, our country has 200,000 jobless nurses but Filipinos are dying from illnesses that are treatable and preventable except that there are no health workers to attend to their health needs. The “oversupply” of nurses is therefore a myth. There is no oversupply, the demand is overwhelming; it’s just that there are no available jobs for nurses.
Is RN Heals the solution? Definitely not! This program is a palliative that will just paper over two major problems: unemployed/underemployed nurses, and our country’s failed health care delivery system. What will happen after their six-month employment under RN Heals? Its predecessor, the NARS program, did not result in tenured positions in public hospitals for a substantial number of nurses. RN Heals runs on the same template, how can it deliver a different result? RN Heals also ignores salient provisions of the Nursing Act of 2002, especially those concerning wages and benefits of entry level nurses.
If the Aquino administration is dead serious about addressing this matter, it should create more “plantilla” positions for nurses in our understaffed hospitals, build more rural health and medical centers, and aggressively deploy thousands of tenured health care providers to far-flung communities. All the rhetoric about universal health care and daang matuwid will be empty words unless they are translated into action.
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