Cheaters on the Nursing Board Exams

July 22, 2006 by reyna11
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TO ALL THOSE LOOKING FOR THE RESULTS OF THE 2008 JUNE NURSING BOARD EXAMS: PLEASE CLICK THIS ENTRY: 2008 Nursing Board Exam Results

Ok, ano naman to? You look to the left, me mga illegal recruiters. You look to the right, me mga nangongopya at mga cheaters sa Nursing Board Exams. Did you know that the latest Nursing Board results are now posted?

Ayan… eto namang Gapuz na to, kelangan siguro nito iGapuz na lang at kutusin sa kiliti. Wad-u-think? Alam ba nang ulupong na to kung sino ang tini-tira nya with all the leak and everything? Eh sino fa nga ba kundi tayo na namang mga pinoy sa labas nang Pinas!

Paki-GAPUZ po nang hudas na to!

Nursing Board Examinees Say Cheaters Pose Danger to Profession

BY ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW Northern Dispatch
Posted by Bulatlat
BAGUIO CITY

The recent nursing board examinees in this city say their complaint against the alleged examination leakage, filed before the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) last week, is not merely confined to the scam. They are more concerned, they say with board passers – who, because they allegedly benefited from the leakage, would pose great danger to public health services when they begin practicing their profession.

While supportive of the complaint, professional nurses in this city say the leakage issue is now elevated to a higher level as the scam was a manifestation of systemic problems encountered by the profession. The root causes of the scam, the nurses say, should be investigated, including the possible involvement of members of the Board of Nursing, review centers and other government officials.

The call to trace the roots of the scam was issued by representatives of the examinees, deans of nursing colleges, and officers of the Philippine Nursing Association (PNA) in a June 30 press conference held here. They also revealed that 425 professional nurses in Baguio and Cordillera expressed support to the complaint filed before the PRC, demanding the creation of a body to investigate the scam.

The scam

The June 11 and 12 board examination in this city was allegedly marred by fraud when the R.A. Gapuz Review Center was reported to have given its student reviewees notes containing a considerable number of questions that later came out in the examination.

The Gapuz review handout – a xeroxed 18-page handwritten review notes – allegedly contained exactly the same examples as those in the actual exams.

The complainants said 46,000 took the exam held nationwide, with some 6,000 of them in Baguio. Two thousand of the Baguio examinees took review classes at the R.A. Gapuz Review Center and received copies of the review handout.

Saying that the leakage was unfair for those who reviewed for the exam, the examinees filed the complaint last week while the motion for intervention was filed on June 28 directly at the PRC national office.

Culture of cheating

The examinees as well as the professional nurses in this city under PNA condemned the “culture of cheating” evident in the board examination.

Dr. Mary Grace Lacanaria, dean of the Saint Louis University and head of the Cordillera Associations of Deans of the Philippines College of Nursing (ADPCN), said they do not tolerate cheating.

She said a national official of the PNA who is also working with a review center tried to convince her to stop their move to investigate the leakage scam. They are determined, however, to push through with their fight, she said.

“It can be a David vs. Goliath, but we (as David) are being supported in the struggle as manifested by broad support for the intervention,” Lacanaria said. She said they have the support of PNA chapters and ADPCN nationwide, the Baguio City Council which passed a resolution supporting investigation of the scam, and the offices of Senators Juan Flavier and Pia Cayetano.

The profession (nursing) deals with human lives and should not be put under question considering the business of saving lives is one where mistakes cannot be tolerated, said the nurses in their motion to intervene.

“We firmly believe that only those who are capable are fit to be admitted to the nursing profession, and this capability is demonstrated when one passes the board exam fairly and squarely,” it said.

Roots of the scam

Northern Dispatch also learned that at least 200 questions in the board exam were also leaked in Metro Manila.

PNA officers of Baguio said that among the 420 nursing schools nationwide, there are at least 25 threatened with closure due to poor performance.

Prof. Caster Palaganas, who teaches at the Baguio campus of the University of the Philippines and is a PNA member, said these schools invested millions and will try their all to have access to examination questions leakage to improve their passing percentage.

Meanwhile, the complainants condemned the backdoor channel talks initiated by the PRC officials with the Board of Nursing (BON), allegedly to cover up the issue and BON’s involvement. “Why not act on our complaint by creating an impartial body to investigate those involved in the leakage?” they said in the press conference. The BON is headed by Eufemia Octaviano with the following as members: Remedios Fernandez, Gracia Dioniso, Letty Kuan, Estelita Galetira, and Virginia Madeja.

Northern Dispatch / Posted by Bulatlat

Tags: Nurses

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4 Comments on Cheaters on the Nursing Board Exams

ate sienna on Sun, 23rd Jul 2006 1:10 am

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Spring on Tue, 8th Aug 2006 1:20 pm

Invalidation of June 2006 Nursing Board is the best solution. Don’t let the Nusing Profession be endangered by Cheaters in the Philipines…People involved should be punish. Strict governance and discipline is needed in this country. We have so much feedom and I think thats the biggest problem..Cheater, Corrupt people, and all the bad should be punish accordingly or be killed! Theirs no place for them in this world..

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ako on Sun, 13th Aug 2006 8:43 am

Hey..I dont think it’s fair to invalidate the June 2006 Nursing Board. You don’t know how much effort and sacrifices we, the examinees have gone through. I reviewed at RA Gapuz Review Center in Baguio City and like the other reviewees in various review centers, we worked really hard and studied faithfully during the review. We never actually mind how tired we walked from the country club where the review was held just to ride a jeepney back home since there were only a few jeepneys and cabs on that area.Because we wanted to prepare ourselves for the board exam we endured all that and in our hearts we know that we are not cheaters as the people who do not understand us say so. The grievances of those who have done their best to pass is not being heard because the people who know nothing about the issue speaks as though they know very well what has happened. As days pass by the “leakage issue” is becoming exaggerated and the examinees suffer from the fault of the few. If that leakage made us pass the board exam I wonder why more than half of the examinees failed. In our school, most of the students had their review in Gapuz Review Center but majority failed. I’m not trying to brag about my performance but I think it’s worth the effort to pass. And its sad to think that people say I passed because of the leakage Gapuz has given to his reviewees.

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Reyna Elena on Wed, 16th Aug 2006 10:28 am

Retake is Optional

This was the decision announced by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) over the alleged leakage of the June 2006 Nurses Licensure Examination (NLE) , allowing examinees who are willing to retake the exams in December to avoid the ‘’stigma’’ that is being associated with the recent batch of examinees.

“We will allow a retake but will not impose it upon those who are not willing , provided they will execute a waiver. They will not choose the higher grade, only take the next grade as their grade,” PRC Commissioner Avelina dela told participants of the dialogue and consultative meeting with deans and other nursing leaders at the PRC premises yesterday.

PRC chairperson Leonor Rosero stressed that the PRC is pursuing the registration of the board passers, and consequently, the oathtaking, amid the cheating controversy.

“We will go on with the oathtaking. Those who failed the exams will be allowed to take it again without any record of failure,” she said.

An alleged leak on the test questions on the recent NLE has caused mixed reactions from the education sector, students and even some government officials.

A review center was implicated to have been the source of the leakage but the review center denied the allegations. Previous reports said that the leaked questions came from the manuscripts of two members of the board of nursing (BoN).

A total of 42,006 nursing graduates took the exam last June 11 and 12 and 17, 821 passed it.

Four members of the BoN have recently tendered their resignations including chairman Eufemia Octaviano and members Remedios L. Fernandez, Letty G. Kwan, Estelita T. Galutira. Two BoN members, Virginia Madeja and Anesia Dionisio who were implicated in the said leakage were earlier asked by PRC to go on a leave of absence. Subsequently, PRC has suspended all their monthly honoraria and had filed administrative charges against them.

Dela Rea said two nursing board members submitted their intention to vacate their posts only last Friday However, PRC has not yet accepted their resignations. “If we accept their resignation, we might lose our hold on them. How can we penalize them then?” she said.

Rosero hits back at those who are asking for the resignation of PRC officials.

“Sino naman ang ipapalit samin? Magagalit naman ang ibang propesyon pagnagresign kami since nursing is just one of the 42 professions that we take care of. Isa pa, hindi galing sa PRC ang leakage,” Rosero said.

Dela Rea suggested that legislators must devise regulations on test review centers compelling them to submit names of their reviewees and to make review classes a part of the curriculum before the graduation of students. The proposal also included the hiring of test items writers on a part-time of fulltime basis.

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