No repaying the mental anguish of board examinees
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Last updated 05:11am (Mla time) 10/04/2006
WITH all due respect, we don't want a retake! We don’t care if how many millions of pesos the government is willing to give us.
The government could repay the review fees and the cost of review materials, etc., but it cannot repay the mental anguish we went through in preparing for that board exam, and the time being wasted in waiting for our licenses to be releases.
We burned midnight candles, we turned our days into nights, and we were probably walking zombies as we gathered all the knowledge we had gained in four years of nursing school, just to pass the exam, be awarded our licenses, to see our parents happy and proud, and to repay the blood, sweat and tears they shed to send us to nursing school. We sacrificed a lot!
The board exam is not the only way we can prove our competence. Give us our licenses so we can show that we deserve them, and we will do everything in our power to protect that license.
If there is a "stigma" on the profession, which is why some in government want a retake, the solution is just simple: We will live in such a way that we will prove them wrong!
We were taught that we should be an advocate of our patient's rights. But how can we be advocates if we, as nurses, can't fight for our right to have the license to practice our profession, to have a job, to help our parents and move on with our lives.
The President wants a retake because of cheating. There was also cheating during the election; should we not also call for a reelection?
The 2003 bar examination did not have a retake, why should we retake our exam? Retaking the exam would mean we admit to ourselves that we had cheated. Retaking it would mean being cowards, because we did fight for our right as to get what is due us as legitimate successful examinees.
Why are they punishing the innocent? Has the world gone so mad that this is how it works? It is so easy for them to tell us to retake the exam because they were not the ones that prepared for and took it.
For the nth time already: No to a retake! Just give our licenses so we can prove our competence!
I hope Dante Ang, chairman of the Commission on Filipinos Overseas who is calling for a retake, is sleeping soundly tonight, thinking of the thousands of dreams he is shattering. I just hope and pray his conscience won’t bother him for the rest of his life, thinking of the 17,000 lives he shall have wrecked.
We are not sacrificial lambs. We are nurses with hearts full of compassion to serve humanity, and minds that know what is wrong and what is not.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
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