The Philippine Nurse Licensure Examination is scheduled on June 1 and 2, 2008. Candidates for this licensure exam are surely frenzied in their review with barely three weeks left.
In one of my online sojourns (what a word!) , I chanced upon a copy of a memo issued by the Commission On Higher Education prohibiting institutions from forcing their graduates or students to enroll with affiliated review centers.
It may be a tad too late for those poor graduates who were tricked by their respective College Deans into becoming sacrificial lambs in these rampant X-deals between nursing schools and review centers. Still, there is hope for those who will be taking the Nurse Licensure Examination late this year.
Here is an excerpt of the ChED Memorandum Order No. 13, series of 2006:
In accordance with the pertinent provisions of Republic Act. No. 7722, otherwise known as the "Higher Education Act of 1994", and in response to various complaints filed with this Commission, the following prohibitions shall be strictly implemented to all public and private Higher Institutions (HEIs):
1. Forcing their graduates and their graduating students to enroll in their review centers and/or in review centers of their preference.
2. Charging exorbitant review fees.
3. Withholding of grades and other school records of students and graduates who cannot enroll in these review centers.
All HEIs found guilty will be dealt with accordingly.
Some schools even go as far as incorporating review classes into the nursing curriculum. They usually give last-minute announcements 2 or three months into graduation (graduation in Philippine nursing schools usually fall on late March to mid-April) saying that students' performance in in-house review classes will be included in the final computation of grades.
Preposterous, huh?
Maybe our College Deans forgot that the nursing curriculum is already crammed as it is. With subjects such as Nursing Leadership and Management and Research to worry about amidst hurried clinical rotations, I know for certain how harassed nursing students are during their final semester in nursing school.
Of course, our esteemed specialists in nursing education knows what is best for our beloved student nurses. They believe they only have their graduates' welfare at heart so they painstakingly scouted for the best review centers in the land.
Really? You gotta be kidding me.:)
1 comment:
hmmm... i wished they would stop torturing the students with fees that are rocketing high enough to reach the moon... or even the sun! the exams are pressure enough to make the students bleed to death.
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