Filipino nursing students/graduates of today.. what can you say about them?

bloodytom · Jun 19, 2006

I thought before you can start enrolling urself to nursing course, you first must belong to the upper 40% of your high school graduating class. or this only works for state universities?

is this still applied? i think this is not applicable anymore in the new nursing law.. am i right?

gracediwa · Jun 19, 2006

it's not applicable anymore. the 40% was from RA 7164. The ammended law, RA9173 did not specify any ruling regarding this. I guess it's because they wanted to give those 60% a chance to prove themselves, right. And besides, the topnotchers weren't always from the upper 40%.

mctina_20 · Jun 19, 2006

thanks for the new info.. i thought year 2000 was not too long ago.

bloodytom · Jun 19, 2006

right

when i enrolled in 2002 for nursing it was still imposed

now i remember my ethico-legal nrsg subj. there really is no more law regarding the upper 40% thing

GSG9ers · Jan 28, 2008

THe present situation regarding the nursing students and schools in the Philippines is a long story. . . Yes, its true that our country produces one of the best nurses and health care providers in the world but somehow it has its ups and downs as well. Most nursing students in our country today are turning in to cash cow or we can say an ATM machine for directors and directress of certain nursing institution. In my school i had my share of ugly experiences and sometimes good ones too. My school exposes us in some of the best government hospitals in the Philippines giving us the chance to take charge and learn as much as we can with the help of clinical instructors ofcourse. But not all C.I.s are as good as they should be since most of the best nurses/C.I.s in our country had left already to seek greener pasture in other parts of the world.

Yes its true that there are some instances that rich students pay the school to get away with thier failing grades. . . but who's to blame for this act. . . If the poeple working for the school or if not the directress herself wont allow such thing to happen then this student would probably learn a lesson and start to be a responsible person. Remember this students are going to be professional nurses in the future and yet they dont know the meaning of responsibility. I have nothing against this students since i know some of them. And believe me this students who are lazy to go to thier hospital duties and thier lectures are the ones who complain alot.

Hoss · Jan 29, 2008

"Some nursing shools reprimanded by CHED due to very low passing rate, their solution? putting a rigid review right at their college on top of the usual review centers after graduation.. should the solution be improving the teaching method instead?"

You are quite correct that adding a review course does not make up for poor education. With schools granting BSN degrees to students who cannot pass the NLE, one would think CHED or the PNA would immediately suspend those schools. Instead, they keep recruiting students and churning out graduates that are incapable of sitting for the national licensure exam.

I would suggest that at the end of 4 years, no student should be conferred the Bachelor of Science Nursing degree UNTIL THEY PASS THE NLE. It is appalling that a student can claim the BSN degree and never be able to pass the licensure exam!! At the very least the graduate should hold a BS Health Studies degree and only upon passing the NLE can you claim BS Nursing degree. As it is, an incompetent graduate can still claim the title of BSN without ever qualifying as a licensed Nurse.

The granting of BSN status to unlicensed nurses downgrades the hard work and legitimacy of the degree by those nurses who have sucessfully completed their degree work AND passed a rigorous license examination upon completion.

Simply put, fail the NLE = No right to BSN degree.

Hoss