PRC versus Malacanang: To retake or not.

October 13, 2006 by reyna11 · Leave a Comment
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With North Korea launching it’s first or who knows, the second nuclear test, one would think that there is this big fight going on in the Korean Peninsula. Well, guess what, wala doon. They’re over at PRC and Malacanang. Just read the headlines:

President torn between being mom and professor, a-who? a-what?!
PRC chair to defy Palace, insisting on no retake What’s going on now?

Will PRC stage a coup? Meanwhile, let me re-print some opinion that I thought would share to you if you have not ran across this yet:

It’s not about nursing, but about justice
INQ7.net
Posted date: October 12, 2006

THE letter writer Russel de Vera (“Retake the exam if you know your nursing” — Viewpoints, Oct. 10, 2006) doesn’t get it. The big picture is not about our nurses not knowing their nursing. It’s about justice.

I have worked with and have known many nurses in the US who have been in the nursing profession anywhere from four to 40 years, all graduates of Philippine nursing schools.

There has been a grave injustice committed here to the nurses who passed the June 2006 board examinations. They are crying out to people like De Vera, a colleague, to all of us “kababayan” [fellow countrymen], and to the government for justice.

That is justice for the innocent. Punish the persons responsible for the test question leakage who have undermined the integrity of the profession, whose interest are only for themselves.

Do not punish the innocent who exhausted all their effort and finances to pursue a dream, which De Vera probably had a decade ago. De Vera basically called them cowards for not being willing to retake the board exam.

Do not be quick to judge our nurses, because wherever your journey in America goes you are one of them — Philippine-educated or, as they would often refer to us in the medical field in the US, foreign-trained. IRENEO LABILLES III RPT, Select Specialty Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee (via e-mail)

And if you noticed, I am really following this scandal very closely because Nursing and nurses are close to my heart and I just wish there could be an honest to goodness fair resolution to all of these because in the whole wide world, it’s the Philippine nurses and our image as Filipino itself that suffers. There’d be some added adjectives for us not just currupt people, but cheaters. But then again… that Comelec comes into my mind…

Tags: Nurses