news affecting ofw's despite the controversy generated by the "leakage" in nursing licensure examination this year, american confidence in the country's nursing educational system remains high, according to officials of an organization involved in nursing state boards in the united states.
faith fields and ruth ann terry, president and treasurer respectively of the national council of state boards of nursing (ncsbn), told president gloria macapagal-arroyo during their courtesy call on her in malacanang wednesday morning that nursing boards in all 50 american states remain confident of a continued partnership with the philippines which supplies 80 percent of nurses in the united states.
"we are still hopeful and confident of our partnership in terms of nursing education. we want to keep up the training and employment opportunities for your filipino nurses in the united states," they told the president.
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"but we were able to identify those who were involved in the nursing exam leakage and we are bent on filing criminal charges,"she stressed.
part of upgrading the nursing educational system, she said, is by publishing a list of sub-standard schools which will be eventually ordered closed.
