CGFNS/ICHP's Official decision on Visa Screening for June 2006 NLE passers

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CGFNS Denies VisaScreen® Certificates for Philippine Nurses Who Passed the Compromised June 2006 Philippine Licensure Examination

PHILADELPHIA, PA — FEBRUARY 14, 2007 — After careful consideration, the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS International) has decided that those Philippine nurses who were sworn in as licensed nurses in the Philippines following their passing the compromised licensure exam of June 2006 are not eligible for a VisaScreen Certificate. CGFNS began investigating this issue soon after the first reports of irregularities were received and sent a fact-finding mission to the Philippines in September 2006. CGFNS has concluded that the licensure process for those who received their license as a result of passing the compromised June 2006 licensure examination raises significant questions about the accurate assessment of the competencies of many of those individuals.

Therefore, CGFNS is unable to certify that the licensure is comparable to a U.S. license. In this instance, applicable U.S. immigration law will not permit CGFNS to issue the VisaScreen Certificate required of internationally educated health care workers to those nurses who obtained Philippine licensure on the basis of passing the June 2006 nursing licensure examination. CGFNS notes, however, that the June 2006 passers are able to overcome this bar and qualify for a VisaScreen Certificate by taking the equivalent of Tests 3 and 5 on a future licensing examination administered by Philippine regulatory authorities and obtaining a passing score.

please verify at:

http://www.cgfns.org/sections/about/news/news/2007/02-14-07_philippines.shtml

For those that want to go to US...we need to take the board or certain parts of the board this June.

And they will do an excellent job to get nurses from PI blocked from working in the US. The US govt can get tired enough of this going on, and they can do something.

And who is paying for this trop for them to fly to the US? Wonder what their shopping trip will be like?

Sorry, but CGFNS has told them not to come. Would be very nice if they did not have time to meet with them, and that would be rightly so. They are flying to another continent for an appt, and were told not to.

Wonder what they will say when they return home? Sorry, but their tails will be hanging down. Love to see their interview when they return. And they are going to make it quite easy for NCLEX to be cancelled from being held there.

With this type of behavior from governing officials, what would you expect?

Specializes in Med/Surg/Med-Tele/SDU/ED.
and they will do an excellent job to get nurses from pi blocked from working in the us.
ouch.

Ohhhhh, I wish them to realize that they just have to move on and follow the rules. It may not be easy to go for reveiw again and sit for exam but it is the best way. It maybe a hard road to take but surely a golden pot is there at the end of that road and it includes dignity for all Filipino Nurses around the globe. I salute those nurses who did the retake because they be glowing with "SKA" (Skills, Knowledge & Attitude)

the philippine delegation to cgfns just wasted time, money and energy...

http://www.cgfns.org/sections/about/news/news/2007/03-05-07_philippines.shtml

This result is expected. I do hope now that everything is already clear, as it was from the start, so that everyone could move on.

People who understood the implications of the marred exam long ago understood that only a re-take (partial or total) would be the best solution but since the custodian of the said exams, namely the BON back then and the PRC officials lack the insight and could not see the possible implications it is the nurses who has suffered.

Since, this the the final nail on the coffin so to speak people should now concentrate on their proper preparations for the re-take in June and Dec.

And the same money that was literally thrown out for their visit to PA after they were told not to come should have been used to pay for the re-take.

And these same officials should be required to pay for the re-take for thsi stupid move on their part.

Just one more reason why NCLEX should not be held there. And notice that Pearson-Vue does not know when the center will open, and that is per their website. Seriously think that things are being rethought based on all of this.

Specializes in Medical-Surgical.

A lot of us here have been lambasted because of our stand with retake.

Now, who are vindicated in the end?

we are!!!!!:balloons:

exact same thing was the final outcome that i have predicted all along. this was the only thing that could be done. does not matter what happens in each country if the goal is to work there, but when it involves practicing in the us then it must meet us standards.

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just think that these five that went to the us after being told not to come, should donate the same amount of money that was spent for their trip, out of their pockets, to help defray costs of the retake. they wasted perfectly good money and should be held accountable for that.

Oh well, maybe Dr. Rosero and team just wanted to have fun and visit the U.S.(knowing that they were already very clearly told not to go anymore)---add the fact that accommodations and per diem/pocket money are also included and given to them for this trip! Now talk about Dr. Rosero fighting for the 2006 Board Passers' rights! This must hurt the Filipino taxpayers' pockets big time :nono:

They were told not to come, and they did. They decided that they could do as they pleased. They should be held accountable for their actions and the trip and all of its expenses should come from their pocket.

If not, then they should not be representing anyone. They definitely were not doing anything for the betterment of nursing over there. They could have put the same hours into closing those review centers and charging the owners, but things go on as usual there.

Specializes in Med/Surg/Med-Tele/SDU/ED.
A lot of us here have been lambasted because of our stand with retake.
memories, eh?

some of the flak made me wonder if the people spouting them were really nurses.

my opinion: if people can spout such vile language, and wish evil upon others just because they have a different opinion...then I don't think these people can work in harmony with other members of a health care team. in the Philippines or in the US.

I would not want to work with such people.

Nursing is difficult to begin with. add coworkers with a vile streak, and it's a recipe for disaster.

the patients suffer.

I reiterate, this is my opinion.

for me, Nursing is a Vocation.

I just wish more people realized that.

Specializes in Med/Surg/Med-Tele/SDU/ED.

heart-stopping when you read this:

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/33258/palace-submits-to-cgfns-decision-for-voluntary-retake

in a related development, puentevella telephoned gmanews.tv tuesday evening to clarify that he was just joking when he "insinuated" to the american executives of cgfns that us citizens who would break the law in the philippines would have a hard time dealing with government and its laws.

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in the interview, puentevella said if the cgfns could not bend a little to accommodate the appeal for reconsideration of its february 14 decision, there would come a time when americans would have to come begging to the philippines.

"laws are laws, but sometimes you have to bend a little to make a better world. i told them, some day when you need our help, you will remember us when we have to be strict in enforcing our laws," puentevella said.

"i told them, 'why will you burn the whole house if you're only going to kill one rotten rat. isang daga lang papatayin mo bakit mo papatayin buong bahay," he said.

"someday they will also come to us begging. they say they are just following their mandate. i told them we will also follow our laws. someday, you will also have problems," said puentevella, a close ally of president gloria macapagal arroyo.

the lawmaker said he did not mention about the case involving us marines lance corporal daniel smith, convicted recently for raping a 22-year-old woman in subic, zambales in november 2005, but stressed he gave "insinuations" to the american officials of the cgfns.

"they asked, 'what do you mean?' i told them, you know, we have many american citizens also and sometimes they go out of the line, but sometimes we bend a little even with our laws just to accommodate our friendship. we are allies," puentevella said.

"weather weather lang ito (everything has its own season)," the lawmaker quipped.

insinuations?

veiled threats???

holy cow.

they do not sound like jokes.

this action with the blessing of the philippine government.

it would be less of a headache for cgfns to just...

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