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Monday, October 30, 2006

Special Report Nle leakage: Why bar, nursing test differ widely

By Prof. Rene Luis M. Tadle and Atty. Cheryl L. Daytec-Yangot
[Prof. Rene Luis M. Tadle is president of the faculty of the College of Nursing, University of Santo Tomas. Atty. Cheryl L. Daytec-Yangot, M.PA., is the counsel for the Baguio Braves.]

Another reason why the Supreme Court’s handling of the bar leakage is not applicable to the nursing issue is that mercantile law does not deal with life, unlike all the subject areas of nursing. Mercantile Law deals with commerce—it deals with property.

To overstate the obvious, life is not the same as property. An error in the business of handling lives is irremediable. It can result in death or an existence akin to it. Bluntly put, there is no room for mistakes in nursing.

Unlike a mistake committed by the lawyer whose competence in mercantile law was not measured, that of a nurse cannot be appealed. This is not to say, of course, that lawyers have freedom to be lackadaisical in handling client’s properties. But it is a fact that there is an opportunity to correct the mistake of a lawyer who did not take an exam in mercantile law. Whereas there is no opportunity to correct the nurse’s mistake which precipitated a patient’s jumping off a bridge to his/her death, a tragedy that could have been avoided if the nurse were competent in psychiatric nursing.

The predicament the examinees now find themselves in is a creation of the PRC. Undoubtedly had it acted with the same pace and resoluteness as the Court did in 2003, the examinees would not be in a quandary and their misery would not have been unjustly prolonged. At this point, the spinning out of their agony is nonnegotiable if some kinks have to be ironed out and some wrongs have to be righted. Otherwise, their competence and the integrity of the nursing profession would be sullied forever. Theirs is a monumental sacrifice—albeit forced on them—which the government must recognize with no less than a decisive and judicious resolution of their problem.

It is not only the credibility of the June 2006 examination that is the casualty of PRC’s mishandling of the leakage issue. The bigger casualty is the value of our people, their sense of right and wrong and their ability to discern heroism from villainy.

Lionizing the guilty

In this drama—or more appropriately, tragedy—someone has to be blamed. Sad to say, a mob has emerged to lynch the good guys and deify the bad guys.

Before the release of the exam result, the PRC was beleaguered. Afterward, a group of people on its “passed” list started lionizing the PRC officials. Their supposed virtues of magnanimity and sacrifice are being extolled by leaders of the Alliance of New Nurses (ANN). Concerned individuals suspect that the ANN was organized by the PRC to launder its image and deflect the pointing fingers from it to others. To some, this is not hard to believe because the organization was born only after the release of the NLE result. Its leaders were never vocal against cheating before the release of the exam and even after. It is reported that a leader also reviewed with a certain now-notorious review center and finished the fraud-plagued Test 5 of the NLE in less than half an hour.

Although ANN members keep chanting, “Punish the guilty!” they pin guilt on the wrong people and are quick to absolve the PRC. Their efforts seem to be focused on generating public sympathy for the PRC officials and isolating those who remain relentless in their quest for truth and integrity. In the recent ANN-led rally, the PRC officials, the two Board of Nursing members who leaked questions, and the owners of review centers identified to have propagated the leak were not among those people (which included these two writers) whose names were written on their streamers as the ones responsible for their woes.

Informed inside sources say that the ANN officers are frequent PRC visitors. The members of the alliance even serve as volunteer staff of the PRC, which bolsters doubts on its motives. When Board Chairman Eufemia Octaviano was confronted about this, she saw nothing wrong with it. This should not be unnerving anymore. After all, this is the same official who traveled with the owner of a review school—a perpetrator of the leakage—to Switzerland and saw nothing wrong with it. This is the same official who admitted that oath-taking fees amounting to millions of pesos are being deposited in BON members’ private accounts and saw nothing wrong with it.

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DO YANGOT AND TADLE KNOW THAT PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS ARE EMBEDED IN ALL 5 PORTIONS OF THE NURSING BOARD EXAM? THEY HAVE TO REVIEW THE SUBJECTS COVERED IN EVERY PART. KAHET PA SABIHIN NYO NA YUNG PART NG LEAKAGE SA LAW EH YUN MERKANTIL DAT DEALS WID PROPERTIES, STILL, PART YUN NG WHOLE NG LAW... WE'RE SPEAKING HERE ABOUT THE "LEAKAGE"... THE PRECEDENT THAT HAD HAPPENED THEN. BAKET NGA BA MAY BOARD EXAM? LAHAT NAMAN TO EH DAHIL ITO YUNG MGA KURSONG KAILANGANG PANGALAGAAN ANG BUHAY AND ALL THAT PERTAINS TO THE LIFE AND RIGHTS OF PEOPLE. HINDI MAMAMATAY TAO ANG MGA PUMASANG NURSES.

Posted by Anonymous | 7:32 PM

Yangot & Tadle are part of DA's black propaganda group.No wonder their articles are published at The Manila Times.
They would stop at nothing to destroy the whole being of June 2006 passers.
What do they really want from us?

Posted by Anonymous | 7:50 PM

DO THESE PEOPLE REALLY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT?... PEOPLE MAY NOT BE PROPERTY BUT PEOPLE SACRFICED MONEY, TIME, EFFORT, BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS FOR SOME OF THEIR PROPERTIES... MAYBE YOU FORGOT HOW SOME PEOPLE ACTUALLY DIED FOR THE LITTLE LAND CALLED PHILIPPINES?

AND EXCUSE ME... NOT EVEN FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE CAN STOP A DETERMINED SUICIDAL PATIENT WHEN THAT PATIENT DECIDES TO KILL HIMSELF... BECAUSE IF THAT PATIENT WOULD REALLY WANT TO DIE THAT BAD, HE'D KILL FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE JUST TO JUMP OFF THAT BRIDGE...

BUT THEN AGAIN, YOU WOULDN'T KNOW THAT... YOU ARE NOT A NURSE, NOR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN WITH A SUICIDAL PATIENT...

Posted by Anonymous | 7:54 PM

patunayan nlng natin guys na mali sila sa lahat...na incomptent tau.. after 2years guys, pagtatawanan nlng natin un ganito.this would serve as challenge to be more better and competent nurse. hayaan nyo guys si God na bahal s kanila kung sbrang sinisira na nila un dignity natin, un pinaghirapan natin. bhala na si God s knila,.

Posted by Anonymous | 10:11 PM

"DO YANGOT AND TADLE KNOW THAT PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS ARE EMBEDED IN ALL 5 PORTIONS OF THE NURSING BOARD EXAM? THEY HAVE TO REVIEW THE SUBJECTS COVERED IN EVERY PART."

SADLY, THEY DO NOT!!!

AS USUAL, PAPANSIN LANG AT PASAWAY LANG TALAGA ITONG 2 ITO SA NURSING PROFESSION!

Posted by Anonymous | 9:32 AM

"Concerned individuals suspect that the ANN was organized by the PRC to launder its image and deflect the pointing fingers from it to others."

HAHAHA! MALICIOUS MINDED PA ANG MGA 'HIBANG' NA ITO... INORGANIZED DAW TAYO NG PRC... SOBRANG NAKAKATAWA!!!

Posted by Anonymous | 9:53 AM

HOY YANGOT! KUNG DAHIL SA KAPAPELAN MO MAS MARAMI SANANG NAKAPASA SA NURSING BOARD!!!

WAG KA NGANG MAGMALINIS!

WE KNOW FOR SURE NAKINABANG KA DIN SA LEAKAGE NG BAR EXAM NINYO NOH!!!

BAKA SOBRANG MAPAHIYA KA LANG PAG LUMABAS ANG TOTOO!

Posted by Anonymous | 9:59 AM

THIS IS GETTING SO MUCH FUN NOH...

YEAH RIGHT! ATTACK PRC THIS TIME...TSK! TSK! TSK!

WALA NG IBANG MAPAGBALINGAN ANG UGOK NA ITO... HEHE! :p

Posted by Anonymous | 10:01 AM

"Another reason why the Supreme Court’s handling of the bar leakage is not applicable to the nursing issue is that mercantile law does not deal with life, unlike all the subject areas of nursing."Atty Yangot pompously declare.If we expand further her reasoning, the converse will be since in criminal law it deals with life and death(for states with death penalty) then the bar leakage is applicable. How preposterous is her reasoning.
Be that as it may, she has to accept that the CA is the trier of facts. And the CA declared that the facts showed there was no leakage. Why mislead again the public with her trash and black propaganda.She should have extend more efforts and do better in submitting evidence of leakage instead of crying to high heavens in a tiny weeny papers that her clients are correct. The CA and the SC will not giveway to this kind of inanities. I do not believe Atty Yangot graduated from UP College of Law. UP LAW graduates do not reason the way she does.

HUNGKAG
p.s.please see my post Special Report Part 1

Posted by Anonymous | 10:06 AM

KAILAN PA NAKAMATAY SA ISANG 'CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT' ANG "ABSENCE OF NURSING PSYCHOLOGY"... HAHAHA!

YOU TWO (MR. TADLE & ATTY YANGOT) ARE SO OUTRAGEOUSLY OUT OF YOUR MINDS!

I WANT TO DEAL WITH 'YOUR LIVES' MYSELF TO SHOW YOU HOW COMPETENT I AM AS A NURSE... KAIRITA, HUH! HAHAHA! :p

Posted by Anonymous | 10:22 AM

COMMENTS:

First, Atty. Yangot, Dante Ang, Sec. Brion, Tadle, et al should cite or show the specific leaked questions that involve matter of life and death, and why they consider these questions as such--instead of simply mouthing the unsubstantiated conclusion that the scandal involves leaked questions of matter of life and death.

Second, Atty. Yangot et al should tell the passers why they--the 17,000 passers--should be penalized for any mishandling of the scandal by PRC and/or BON. Under what law are they basing their action?

Third, they should explain why the complaining flunkers, who are asking for a reconsideration of CA' decision, are asking for retake of the leakage-tainted tests 3 and 5, which retake will include and benefit the 25,000 non-passers, including them. If the complaining flunkers are still flunkers despite reverting to the original computation as ordered by CA, why should they have the gall to impliedly include themselves in the retake? The passers maybe asked to retake on the disputable suspicion that they passed because of leakage, but is there a suspicion that THE FLUNKERS FAILED BECAUSE OF THE LEAKAGE? He, he, he, mag-isip naman kayo Atty. Yangot at mga complaining flunkers who failed even with leakage! By your appeal, you are stubbornly ascribing incompetence to passers who did better than you, and are, therefore, superior to you--don't you have common sense and delicadeza?

Fourth, Atty. Yangot, you are a lawyer, as previously explained in the comments on Part I, why ask for retake of entire test 3? In doing so, you are playing into the hands of your flunker clients who simply want to erase their stigma as flunker through retake--when they are not entitled to retake because when the CA order was followed by PRC and the original grades prior to recomputation were used, they or some of them still emerged as flunkers! Thus, they cannot blame the LEAKAGE or PRC's handling of it as excuse for their failure, and hence they should not be entitled to retake even if the Courts would remotely rule in favor of retake!!! Atty. Yangot, I suppose you are intelligent enough to know the injustice in including test 3 in the retake. At worst, only 20 (or 25?) questions should be retaken, but you and your flunker clients are unfairly silent on this--so it seems you are working for injustice, not justice, to all concerned.

hahaha! nakakatawa ano naman ang alam ni tadle at yangot s sina sb nila e d naman nurses ang mga yan.hahaha!

Posted by Anonymous | 12:14 PM

"Special Report Nle leakage: Why bar, nursing test differ widely (PART 2)"

ALL BULLIES, LIES & CRAP!

Posted by Anonymous | 12:57 PM

PASSING THE NURSING BOARD EXAM DAW DEALS W/ LIFE & DEATH...

ALIN ANG NLE?!@#*

HAHAHA!

Posted by Anonymous | 1:10 PM

"Whereas there is no opportunity to correct the nurse’s mistake which precipitated a patient’s jumping off a bridge to his/her death, a tragedy that could have been avoided if the nurse were competent in psychiatric nursing. "

COULD A NEW GRADUATE ACQUIRE THIS SKILL ALREADY??? KIDDING ASIDE? HAHAHA!

I TOOK BS PSYCH MORE THAN 10 YEARS AGO (PRIOR TO NURSING), I JUST FOUND OUT FROM THE REVIEW CENTER I WENT TO NA NORMALLY THESE 'DEPRESSED PEOPLE' WILL COMMIT SUICIDE ON A SATURDAY AT 4AM, WHEN FEW NURSES ARE USUALLY ON DUTY & MIGHT BE ASLEEP... AND WHEN U THINK THESE PATIENT'S ARE GETTING BETTER, IT'S ACTUALLY WHEN THEY HAVE REGAINED STRENGTH TO FULLFILL THEIR 'DEATH WISH' - SUICIDE... THE MOST A NURSE COULD DO IS TO STAY BESIDE THE PATIENT, WHO IS SUICIDAL, 24HRS A DAY (PRACTICAL? DON'T THINK SO... )... LISTENING & ATTENTIVENESS FOR 'CUES' IS THE MOST THERAPEUTIC THING THAT A NURSE COULD DO IN THIS SITUATION... AIN'T THAT BASIC & SIMPLE!

IT'S TAUGHT IN NURSING SCHOOL...WE LEARNED THAT IN NURSING SCHOOL...

OR THESE 2 AUTHORS WOULD LIKE TO HEAR MORE GRAND & POMPOUS PSYCHIATRIC INTERVENTION??? (COZ THEY WANT GRAND & POMPOUS MEDIA BLITZ AT ALL TIMES, E...)

LIKE PSYCHOTHERAPY... OR HALDOL FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA CASE (FOR MR ANG. OK 'SCHIZOID' NA LANG. HEHE!)... OR PSYCHOSES... OR DELUSION OF GRANDEUR ("MESSIAH-NIC" TRIP OF DENNIS BAUTISTA)... OR DESENSITISATION... OR DISSOASSOCIATIVE DISORDER ( FOR MS. YANGOT. HEHE!)... OR PARAPHILIACS (LIKE MR. TADLE. HEHE!)... OR ANTI-SOCIAL... WHAT ELSE???

THAT'S FUN... :p

BSN 2006

Posted by Anonymous | 1:33 PM

Teka muna, bakit puro nurse na lang ang pinagbubuntunan ng responsibilidad, eh ano ang ginagawa ng doktor?

Hindi ba't sila ang dapat mag-prescribe ng tamang gamot at treatment, at taga execute lang ang nurse?

Yung depressed, wala bang prescribed medication ang doktor at ang buhay niya ay nakasalalay sa nurse? Pagka ganyan kabigat ang responsibility ng nurse ayon sa UST people, ay magkano ba ang pa-sweldo ng UST HOSPITAL sa mga nurses nila, aber?

Posted by Anonymous | 3:30 PM

"The bigger casualty is the value of our people, their sense of right and wrong and their ability to discern heroism from villainy."

ano ang 'heroism' sa ginawa mo, Ms. Yangot??? 42,000 lives and more were affected by your MEDIA MANIPULATION OF THE NURSING CONTROVERSY!

gusto mo pa ng 'credit' for representing the 'baguio whistleblowers'... kapal ng mukha mo naman!

Posted by Anonymous | 3:37 PM

"...Pagka ganyan kabigat ang responsibility ng nurse ayon sa UST people, ay magkano ba ang pa-sweldo ng UST HOSPITAL sa mga nurses nila, aber? "

korek! dapat kasing-mahal ng sa doktor ang pasueldo sa nars kung ganun... baja mga duktor nga ata ang tinutukoy nila mr. tadle at ms. yangot dyan sa article na yan e ... hehe! :P

Posted by Anonymous | 3:42 PM

"In this drama—or more appropriately, tragedy—someone has to be blamed. Sad to say, a mob has emerged to lynch the good guys and deify the bad guys."

korek! ur lynching the 'legit board passers' w/ your personal & hideous agenda... ur distorting truth... NLE WAS LEAKAGE FREE ALREADY but u people keep on making up stories that its not...

Posted by Anonymous | 3:41 PM