For those nurses who attended good schools and passed the NLE, my heartfelt congratulations for a well deserved accomplishment. However, I feel for those who failed because they went to substandard schools that consistently fail to graduate students who can pass the NLE. Your anger is justified!!
Here in Baguio, a consistently top performing school is St. Luis Univ. (SLU) ...always a 90% or better (this exam 302 takers ..299 passed!!!) I applaud this University for its year after year performance standards!
At the Univ. of Baguio you at least had a 50/50 chance with 527 examinees resulting in 263 passers (50%) and a better chance at the Univ. of the Cordilleras (Baguio College Fndtn) where 248 takers resulted in 150 passers for a respectable (60%).
Yet just down the street is Baguio Central Univ. who put 639 students into the exam with only 233 passers (36%).....or even more disturbing is Pines City College with 977 examinees and 277 passed...(28%) thats 1,600 plus students of which 1,100 FAILED from these two schools alone.
There are HUNDREDS of nursing schools with similar performance of BCU and Pines City, and the loosers are the students who spent millions of pesos for a 4 year education that resulted in NO JOY at the biggest exam of their career!! I cannot believe that out of 1600 students over 1100 are not intelligent enough to pass this exam...more likely than not it was a poor education that resulted in this terrible perfomance disparity.
EPS procedures are a hell of a specialty for a full blown interventional cardiologist...and the nursing staff should really be the best in the entire region ...atrial fibs and old geezers like me are not the realm that STI trained STUDENTS should be advertised about on TV!! I am alive today because a critical care nursing team brought me back from a life flight helicopter and 3 stents later. This old man is in abject worship of grand critical care nurses...... Jesus Christ and General Jackson, what ARE THEY THINKING showing ads like that on TV? It makes me weep for the great men and women who never get the credit due them for the life saving jobs they perform....computer school advertisments indeed!!! I SPEAK FROM MY HEART, that only great nurses could bring back to life!!!!!!
i completely agree with you hoss, no offense but computer schools should close their nursing college and focus more on their field.
I second the motion!
remember the TV commercial about a student nurse (from STI) doing a cardio version? hah! if im not mistaken, nurses aren't allowed to do a cardio version right?
STI's slogan was "real education for real life
Please correct me if i'm wrong... I saw that advertisement and I admit I was really surprised on how easy they're showing it... But then, i don't believe that nurses aren't allowed to do that. They are if they've done training... (I think) You see when I was a student and had my duty in the ER, our preceptors (nurses) taught us how to used it and meds to go with it.. It's not much but its really something.. so I don't believe that nurses are not allowed to do it!
perhaps these schools should start to screen scrupulously the students before admitting them to nursing...because i know a school who still allows students to graduate even without passing the NAT exam.
Having no candidate in the top ten but almost all your candidates passed is much much better than having one topnotcher but almost half your candidates failed. Are you not surprised why UP also doesn't have a candidate in the top ten?...yet all its candidates passed?..You see, only in the Philippines have this so called top ten (examinees) in government exams. If you "google" the word "topnotcher", the lists show mostly Philippine entries. In the US, there is no such thing (top ten examinees)..you either failed or passed (even US Bar exams) and they gauge the performance of the school based on how many candidates passed. I believe PRC should stop releasing the rankings of the top ten examinees (this is a source of corruption). They should only release the rankings of schools.
I totally agree. Much better that a school has a higher over-all passing rate for their students rather than a school that has many representatives in the so-called top ten but it's over-all passing rate is just 50-60% or below and you will see that from the charts.
It is also good that they also provide the stats for the passing rate for 1st timers and re-takers as most often than not the re-takers have very low passing rates and this drags down the overall passing rate of a school. This is quite fair in my opinion, since there really is a sort of 'diminishing returns' for re-takers on any board-type exams. The more times a test taker takes an exam and fails it, the lesser the chance she'll pass.
All RNs in the US can use a debrillator, and many that are not in the healthcare field can use it. We have portable ones all over the entire US. Whether or not you can use the one with the paddles that you see in the movies, depends on the facility that you are working in, but every RN in the critical care areas, OR, and ER can use it. And they need to know how to use it, some facilities may require that they certify you in it, but that is facility specific.
EPS studies and procedures are something else entirely, and are only performed by specialized cardiologists, not all cardiologists perform these studies. They are not routinely done by all.
i haven't seen any nurse in the philippines used it.
Well I have seen some nurses used it here... If your from Manila, you might find it ordinary especially in private hospitals. anyway....
Does anybody here knows what website I can look for board rating of all schools? I've been looking for it. Because my school got 91% board passing. It's ok compare to 86% last year. I'm just wondering how they come up with the rating.... Only 17 failed in our batch and I think 280 took it. I'm not really sure the exact number.
Well I have seen some nurses used it here... If your from Manila, you might find it ordinary especially in private hospitals. anyway....
Does anybody here knows what website I can look for board rating of all schools? I've been looking for it. Because my school got 91% board passing. It's ok compare to 86% last year. I'm just wondering how they come up with the rating.... Only 17 failed in our batch and I think 280 took it. I'm not really sure the exact number.
There are new faces of nurses competing for the jobs that Filipinos covet. In Canada, USA, Australia, the top importers of foreign nurses, you will see Indian and Korean Nurses who are very well educated and trained working in those hospitals that were once the stronghold of Filipino nurses.
While competition from those other countries produce competent and well educated nurses, then it is a signal here in the Philippines to make sure we do not let the QUALITY of our education system erode into 2nd or 3rd place in the eyes of the world. For many years 100 or so good nursing schools produced thousands of very well trained Filipino nurses. Now over 400 schools are churning hundreds of thousands of new students.....are they getting the same quality of education as the Filipino nurse received 10 years ago?
We must be aware that these precious jobs can be filled by Indian and Korean trained nurses on the basis of a perceived better education program. Lets not be quiet lambs while the "new nursing school" sharks eat the resources of our young students and let the quality of the education slip into mediocrity.
Now over 400 schools are churning hundreds of thousands of new students.....are they getting the same quality of education as the Filipino nurse received 10 years ago?
When we were doing our thesis, I was always inchaged when it comes to PR. I had talked with 4 Unit manager in the hospital where my school was affiliated. (just a wall away from school! hahaha....) When I talked with an Alumna of our school who is the Unit Manager of 3 areas, she said that the education 20-10 yrs ago are far different from the education today. Her exact words are, "binibaby kayo ng school." She told me that she only saw her CI 2 to 3 times per semester. They worked with nurses acting like real nurses! Everything was really different!
Whenever I hear these kind of stories, I'm really wondering where, how or when was this changed happen!
Lets not be quiet lambs while the "new nursing school" sharks eat the resources of our young students and let the quality of the education slip into mediocrity
The statistics may be alaming but I'm not surprised with the results. I think it's not only the school's fault for having low percentage of passing rate but the student plays a big part as well.
Hoss
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EPS procedures are a hell of a specialty for a full blown interventional cardiologist...and the nursing staff should really be the best in the entire region ...atrial fibs and old geezers like me are not the realm that STI trained STUDENTS should be advertised about on TV!! I am alive today because a critical care nursing team brought me back from a life flight helicopter and 3 stents later. This old man is in abject worship of grand critical care nurses...... Jesus Christ and General Jackson, what ARE THEY THINKING showing ads like that on TV? It makes me weep for the great men and women who never get the credit due them for the life saving jobs they perform....computer school advertisments indeed!!! I SPEAK FROM MY HEART, that only great nurses could bring back to life!!!!!!
Hoss