In the past few weeks, Nursing Board Exam was rocked by controversies that questioned its integrity. It was said that there was a leakage in the last exam and unfortunately it was proven true by individuals who gave testimonies on the alleged cheating. This event sadly will make Filipino nurses all over the world “belittled” and in fact there are recent evidences that the last batch of Filipinos who took the recent nursing board exam were having difficulties in finding jobs. Big hospitals in the countries are now according to reports not complacent to the last batch of nurses because of the said incident. This is the reason why some of the nurses in the last batch are having a hard time finding jobs.
Even the NCLEX that is locally available for Filipino nurses who aspire to work in the United States is now on “hold” because of the controversial issue. Many may argue that the leakage in the Philippine Board Exam specifically the nursing wont matter because even though you passed it or not you will still have to take the NCLEX exam but I say this assumption is wrong. Because credibility is a very crucial issue that is in question here. I mean, still, if you manage to pass the NCLEX there will still be the stigma that Filipino cheated their way in their local board exam so how come they wont do that here in NCLEX.
For me, to be able at least to save the names of the Filipino nurses in the world, or the future nurses, PRC and other department should take the initiative to say that “we will void the last exam, and we will have a retake…” I know many would now argue that what about those who didn’t cheat in the last board exam, well I think its just a matter of bad luck. They were unfortunate enough to be able to join the batch of the, for lack of better words, “cheater”. I mean, mediocre nurses were sent out to public in the last board exam, those are the people who cheated.
I mean, if I were a hospital and I wanted to hire new nurses, I wont hire nurses who came from the last batch because how can I be sure that they are of competitive caliber. Given the fact that they cheated in the last exam, PRC and Board of Nurses removed some parts of the exam making it easier to pass it, this is mediocrity as its prime!!
How can you distinguish nurses who didn’t cheat from those who did? The way to avoid mediocre nurses that came out, I know many would react to this if they will be able to read it, is NOT TO HIRE the last batch of nurses.
Come on, mediocre nurses has no place in the highly competitive industry today especially now that Globalization is taking its place.
This is one of the reasons why Philippines have stagnated; we are very complacent with mediocre things in the society, mediocre politician, mediocre economist, and the latest –mediocre nurses!
posted by JP @ 11:03 AM
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