RP loses bid to host NCLEX due to test leakage
RP loses bid to host NCLEX due to test leakage
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, ABS-CBN reported Monday.
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," Ang told abs-cbnNEWS.com.
"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 DZMM 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.
FROM: ABS-CBN News
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topofthehour.aspx?StoryId=47976
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, ABS-CBN reported Monday.
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," Ang told abs-cbnNEWS.com.
"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 DZMM 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.
FROM: ABS-CBN News
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topofthehour.aspx?StoryId=47976
Mr. Ang your apology will not justify what u are asking us to do, ur apology cannot bring back all the sleepless nights, hard work, sacrifices, SWEAT BLOOD AND TEARS we had to shed to pass this exam so ur apology can KISS MY ASS!
Posted by
Anonymous |
4:13 PM
HAHAHA "Mr. Ang your apology will not justify what u are asking us to do, ur apology cannot bring back all the sleepless nights, hard work, sacrifices, SWEAT BLOOD AND TEARS we had to shed to pass this exam so ur apology can KISS MY ASS!" - YOU BET! KISS OUR ASS! ISIGAW NATIN YAN PATI SA MGA TAGA-UST AND OTHER PRO-RETAKE GROUPS.
Posted by
Anonymous |
4:31 PM
hoy hindi kasalanan ng june 2006 board passers ang LEAKAGE ISSUE. HINDI BA KAYO UST KAYO ANG AYAW TUMIGIL SA KAKASIRA NG NAME NG NURSING. WALA NAMAN SA ISSUE ANG RETAKE IN THE FIRST PLACE. DAPAT HULIHIN YUN NAGKALAT NG LEAK PERO DAHIL MABABA RATING NYO GUSTO NYO MAG RETAKE LAHAT. SO NGAYON WAG KA NA MAGSORRY KAPAL NG MUKA MO.
Posted by
Anonymous |
5:32 PM
SHAME ON YOU MR. ANG!
do you still believe na mabubura pa yung tainted credibility na sinasabi nyo? i don't think so!
hindi nyo alam pinag daanan namin para maipasa ang board exam ng walang daya!
Posted by
Anonymous |
11:05 PM
Hay mga passers, whatever you say is unimportant. Puro kayo selfishness. Sarili mga iniisip. NCLEX na nagsalita. Wala kayong laban.
Posted by
Anonymous |
9:49 AM
Sa nag post nung pang 5th, siguro bumagsak ka? hay kawawa ka naman! makakapag nclex ako kahit wala ako lisencya dito sa pinas! tanga! tsaka it doesn't matter, maipasa ko lang ang nclex at pumasa ako sa competency exam ng mga employers ayos na!
isa ka siguro sa mga may leakage tapos bumagsak kaya ka ganyan!
Posted by
Anonymous |
9:44 PM
5th post--- pag pinagbawalan kme ng mismo nclex magexam at nde tinanggap ang aming application dahil sa leakage problema na namin un db? pero sa ngaun...wla effect..leakge or no leakage..we are welcome en accepted...so kung mgkakarun man kame ng stigma...kme un..its up to us para mabura un by working hard.. wla ang right ang kahit sino ang ipilit ang retake kung ayaw nya...it wont affect your life.. that goes the same with gordon,ust deans,en complainants... accept defeat ok..
Posted by
Anonymous |
2:23 AM
HOY DANTE ANG WAG MO NGA SA AMIN ISISI YUNG NCLEX. PORKE HINDI MO KAYA IPANALO YAN SA AMIN MO ISISI. IKA NGA NI CORDERO "MGA SIRAULONG MGA YAN" HAHAHA.
Posted by
Anonymous |
3:16 PM
sa 5th poster...
bilib ako sayo! tama ka
sa mga iba naman, aantayin nyong gawin yun... ha! sana nga gawin un para magretkae kayo! bwahaahha
takot lang kayong magsipag-exam dahil chamba lang ang pag-pasa ninyo!
Posted by
Anonymous |
8:52 PM
Sa nagpost BEFORE AKO
siguro bumagsak ka din, kung hindi man siguro marami kang kaibigan na bumagsak o siguro taga ust ka!
hoy yung pagpasa namin 99 percent knowledge namin yun at 1 percent luck! hindi lang utak kelangan mo sa board exam yung luck factor din yun!
dumating yung time namin na pumasa kami kaya ayaw na namin isugal pa iyon at bumagsak lang sa retake, well earned namin ang pumasa kasi pinaghirapan namin yun!
bobo!
Posted by
Anonymous |
10:20 PM
bakit yung mga pumasa ang pinag iinitan nyo?
MR. ANG ang mga katulad mo at ng UST ang may kasalanan kung bakit di na grant ang application nyo para maging testing center ang pilipinas!
KAYO ang nagpalaki ng issue kaya umabot sa ibang bansa.
At MR. ANG di ba you are working for the government para sa nclex bid? diba dapat di ka nagbibigay ng opinion mo? sa ginawa mo di lang ang nursing professiona ng inilagay mo sa bad light kundi pati ang philippine government!!!!!!
ayusin mo muna ang mga estafa cases mo bago ka makialam sa ibang business!!!!!
Posted by
Anonymous |
10:29 PM
MR ANG, MGA KATULAD MONG MGA MATATANDA NA SA PROPESYON NILA ANG DUMUNGIS SA KANILANG PROPESYON! BAKIT HINDI SILA ANG PAGBUNTUNAN MO NG IYONG PAGKADISMAYA? BAKIT HINDI SILA ANG KASUHAN MO SA KORTE? ANONG DAHILAN? BAKIT KAMING MGA INOSENTENG AT MGA MAGUUMPISA PA LANG SA AMING MGA PROPESYON ANG PINAGBUBUNTUNAN? HINDI MO BA SILA KAYA AT KAMI NA LANG ANG SISISIHIN MO?
HINDI KAMI ANG GUMAWA O MAY PAKANA NG KATARANTADUHANG ITO! TINUKOY NA NA DALAWANG BON, SI CORDERO AT GAPUZ UMANO ANG MGA MAY PAKANA, ANONG DAHILAN AT BAKIT HINDI MO SILA MAKASUHAN?
Posted by
Anonymous |
12:11 AM