Nursing education not improving - UP official
Source: Manila Bulletin
Nursing education not improving - UP official
By Shianee Mamanglu
Dismayed at the result the November nursing board, an official of a nursing association called for a special program that will address the concerns of repeaters and avoid waste of resources of the graduates and their parents.
Only 37,527 of the 94,462 or 39.73 percent examinees passed the nursing board administered
by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) in November last year.
Of the total board passers, almost 50 percent were first timers while only 26 percent were repeaters.
Dr. Fely Marilyn Lorenzo of the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) and head of the University of the Philippines’ Institute of Health Policy and Development Studies on Tuesday said the result indicates two things: the quality of nursing education is not really improving, although not deteriorating; and that repeaters are bringing down the average.
“Although the November result is the lowest so far, it’s not really bad for the first timers. But the implication was different because we have a big drop in percentage that was being dragged down by the repeaters,’’ she said in an interview.
Moreover, Lorenzo bewailed the schools and even society for consistently believing that nursing is merely an investment.
"The nursing profession is unhappy that up to now society sees nursing as a business. They are not realizing the effects of all this,’’ said Lorenzo.
Studying nursing can cost an estimated P40,000.00 per semester and can total as much as a half million for the entire course.
Nursing education not improving - UP official
By Shianee Mamanglu
Dismayed at the result the November nursing board, an official of a nursing association called for a special program that will address the concerns of repeaters and avoid waste of resources of the graduates and their parents.
Only 37,527 of the 94,462 or 39.73 percent examinees passed the nursing board administered
by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) in November last year.
Of the total board passers, almost 50 percent were first timers while only 26 percent were repeaters.
Dr. Fely Marilyn Lorenzo of the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) and head of the University of the Philippines’ Institute of Health Policy and Development Studies on Tuesday said the result indicates two things: the quality of nursing education is not really improving, although not deteriorating; and that repeaters are bringing down the average.
“Although the November result is the lowest so far, it’s not really bad for the first timers. But the implication was different because we have a big drop in percentage that was being dragged down by the repeaters,’’ she said in an interview.
Moreover, Lorenzo bewailed the schools and even society for consistently believing that nursing is merely an investment.
"The nursing profession is unhappy that up to now society sees nursing as a business. They are not realizing the effects of all this,’’ said Lorenzo.
Studying nursing can cost an estimated P40,000.00 per semester and can total as much as a half million for the entire course.
That sounds pretty strange.
Thanks for informing from that issue
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