RP Loses Bid to Host NCLEX due to Leakage

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The country has lost its bid to become an accredited venue for the American licensure exams for foreign nurses due to an alleged test leakage in the 2006 local nursing board exams.
Dante Ang, chairman of the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO), said he had received information that the country's application to be included in the list of international testing centers of the US National Commission on Licensure Examination (NCLEX) has been put on hold.

"We will not be included in the agenda of the [National Council of State Boards of Nursing] (NCSBN) to be considered as a testing site,".
"Na-defer tayo. (We were deferred.) We will not be in the agenda in the near future," he added.
Ang said several NCSBN officials visited the Philippines last March to discuss the country's bid to become an accredited international venue for the US nursing licensure exam. He said at least 83 percent of NCLEX examinees in international testing centers, particularly in Hong Kong, Guam and Saipan, are Filipinos.

He told that the country "had already reached third base" to hold the NCLEX exam here before reports of the local nursing board exam leakage broke out. He added that NCSBN officials are closely monitoring the developments of the investigation on the test leakage.
"We need to be very open about this investigation. We need to uphold our dignity, uphold our honor and prosecute the guilty parties," he said.

He added that the CFO and other government agencies will work to revive the country's bid as a foreign testing center for NCLEX in future NCSBN meetings.
He said the NCSBN has no set timetable on when it approves applications for foreign testing centers.
A Professional Regulation Commission report earlier said a Philippine Nursing Association official paid P7 million to get a leakage from members of the PRC Board of Nursing (BON) who drafted the nursing board exams. The PRC report said the PNA official got questions and answers from Tests 3 and 5 of the board exams.

PNA president George Cordero, the official implicated in the PRC report, resigned last week after the Senate started investigating the scandal.
Nursing board members including two officials who allegedly leaked the test questions and answers have also offered to resign but were denied.
Ang said the government should immediately accept the resignations of the officials.

He also called for a review of the requirements for PNA officials and BON members. He said faculty members of colleges of nursing or owners of review centers should not sit as PNA or BON officials because of conflict of interest.
Arkansas won't take 2006 nursing board passers
Ang said he has received news that the state of Arkansas will not accept 2006 nursing board passers because of questions of competence as a result of the test leakage.

He said government agencies tasked to monitor the country's bid to hold NCLEX exams locally will petition the Court of Appeals to invalidate the oath-taking of nurses last week and impose a mandatory retake of tests 3 and 5 of the board exams.
Members of the task force include CFO, PRC, National Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, Department of Foreign Afairs and the Philippine National Police.
Ang said the task force is backing a petition filed by the UST College of Nursing Faculty Association, League of Concerned Nurses and Binuklod na Samahan ng Student Nurses to invalidate the oath-taking and order the mandatory retaking of two exams in the 2006 nursing board.

Ang said the task force will draft a resolution and submit it to the Court of Appeals this week.
"I would like to apologize to those who already took their oaths and those who didn't cheat but we think this is the only way to remove the taint (of the leakage) in their marks," he told DZMM.
He said a PRC resolution invalidating two portions of the exams that were allegedly leaked lowers the standards for new nurses.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topoftheh...?StoryId=47976

[omad]

just as I thought.. it doesn't come as a surprise..

[herzabarJR]

Filipinos will always find a way to screw things up..... No surprise.....

Filipinos do not know the meaning of responsibility, accountability and repercussion to one's action... Gusto gyud mo labaw, dili maghuna-huna kung unsay mahitabo sa gibuhat.... Mag-"minaro" gyud... pero istupido di-ay tung gibuhat... How many times have we heard about our countrymen doing illegal stuff in foreign countries like selling contraband materials in the mid east.. Yet, somehow some of us get proud after hearing that because our fellow countrymen got "away" with it(nya kung masakpan, blame dayun sa gobyerno)... "Maru gyud ang pinoy, they say"... Mao na kung naay krimen na hitabo sa Mid East, pinoy dayun ang pasinglan... We have been stereotyped....

How about our "smart" countrymen who goes TNT in the US?? Maru gyud.... Proud pa kaayo ang uban na they know somebody who did this and that.... This is one of the main reason why nganung maglisod ug larga ang pinoy, nganong daghan kaayo ug requirements before kalarga... Why most of our countrymen end up working in god forsaken countries and treated worse than dogs(because these god forsaken countries does not need much requirements from pinoys to work, why would they need that much requirement for a dog anyway?)....

If these leakage practice wont stop, I fear that there comes a time when our Nurses will be blacklisted from foreign countries.... You think that is too extreme? Well remember when our seamen got blacklisted from Norway? Norway has the LARGEST shipping industry in the world, the Philippines is the largest contributor of seamen, yet we somehow managed to get blacklisted....

Cant we just learn from history? Oh, I forgot, we are Filipinos and NO WE WONT... NEVER WILL...

http://www.marinongpinoy.com/article3.html <--- This will make you happy.....

I am sorry for ranting. I am not GENERALIZING ALL FILIPINOS, but lets get real, we know what is happening out there... I dont care if they will hold NCLEX in Pluto as I am not in that profession anyways.... But things like these make me angry ... Imagine how many dollars our countrymen will save by holding the NCLEX here....

[dagget]

i think this is probably the best statement on the Board Exam Fiasco............

Sen. Edgardo Angara slammed yesterday the apparent conflict of interest between the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) and the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA), which may have contributed to the alleged leakage in the recent nursing licensure examination.

He said the conflict of interest arose from the fact that "the guardian is chosen by the guarded."

"The root cause of the scandal engulfing the recent nursing licensure examinations lies in the fact that the members of the current exam board for nurses were hand-picked by the president of the (PNA), who happens to be the owner of both a nursing school and a review center from where the leak allegedly came," Angara said.

http://www.philstar.com/philstar/NEWS200608210403.htm


I think the Nursing associations and all those who filed the TRO shoud share the blame....

how can they allow a president of the Philippine Nursing Association(PNA) operate a school, a review center..... and its the PNA who handpicks the board examiners...........


I think those who passed honestly are really the ones at a disadvantage now......

a retake doesn't solve the problem............ a revamp has to be made on the board of examiners, the Philippine Nursing association, and those concerned shcools... how can they allow the conflict of interest..................

[twalalyn]

i knew this was gonna happen... the trust is lost bcoz of that mistake...it will b hard to earn the trust back....

[digitalsuperman]

luoya sa mga naninguha intawon uy.naamong nuon.

[StyM]

naa gyud di ay leakage? or storya lang nga naa.

[garyg]

Dili lang sa Nursing ang tinikasay. Tanang academic courses nga na-ay licensure exams. Na issue man gani to ang Law ug Doctor's exams. Pero wala ko kasabot nganong wala gyod ni ma imbistigar sa gobyerno. Ma da-ot unya ta sa foreign employment activities nato kay dili na sila mo salig sa atong mga Engineers, Nurse, Accountants, etc.. And DECS or DEPED should do something on this matters para dili unya ma apektohan ang atong exportations of workers abroad. Sila ra ba gyod ang nag buhi sa Pilipinas.

[doce_pares]

yea dis s rily bad news, imagine d convenience f we cud host NCLEX exams here, our examinees cud save much from airfare tsk3

[jugs_06]

tsk tsk.. samot na jud ta ani.......