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Please make sure that your center is using nurses that have been licensed in the US, and hold a current license if they are preparing you for working in the US. And have actually worked in the US.

Memberships in any organizations in the US, or even a relationship supposedly with, such as the American Heart Association mean absolutely nothing in terms of preparing you for working over here.

Do not choose a center just on its name, but on the instructor that will be preparing you. Make sure that they are who they say they are, and can deliver what they promise to, or ask for your money back. And get it back.

who is this joey dee? what is the name of his review center and what other reviews/ seminars is he involved in? please give me info so i can make sure to stay away from them..parang ang dami na niyang na-biktima,ha! thanks guys!

Specializes in ICU, Nursing Education and QA.

Thank you for the suggestions guys, I'll definitely take those into consideration. TC and God bless!

Hello everyone! :typing I attended the final coaching of Gapuz last dec 2005.

I'd have to agree with Lana. Gapuz is still the best when it comes to local nursing board review. You'll know why the seemingly short 7 days of final coaching is sufficient when you're there answering endless questions from 8 to 5.

The other great thing about Gapuz is that I never heard him say bad things about other review centers. He's just a very positive person, an energizer bunny, very funny, a great mentor making things very simplified, easy to understand and retain, and above all he is God fearing. :bow:

Hi there!!! any1 heard of RUN review center 4 NCLEX? i heard u only have to pay 10T for their NCLEX review and it is already a 2 months comprehensive lecture and exams....are they really good on the state boards? pls help me on this..tnx!! :uhoh3:

RUN was good in teaching before but now the passing rate of the students is going down as time goes on. better try pentagon their nclex review is about 14T. don't mind in spending a little in ur review as long as they will give you a quality one go for it and pentagon will do it for u. they give the most quality education that they could give and You will not find dull moment in reviewing to them it's lyk your wathing in a comedy bar but you learn so much in what they are saying.

it's just my suggestion hope it will helps

I've been reading and browsing through a lot of posts and well, what a surprise. This is my second visit to this thread and I have read all the posts which I did not do in my first visit, and guess what, it's all about joey dee.

I have enrolled to the said review center. And it's not that tad bad. I'm not here to defend the man. I'm here to state my opinion and to find out the truth. Well, first, in every review center there will always be students who will be satisfied on the services rendered by such. Whether it may be Gapuz, Pentagon, Kaplan, USALink, IRC, Eastwest, etc. It's like asking a person if your partner is beautiful. Meaning it's relative depending on the students who assess the review center. And I have this conviction deep inside of me that it is not in the review center, not even in the school, it's in you to pass the board exam. Well, I'm still waiting for the result of the controversial June 2006 PNLE.

Anyway, Ate Suzanne and the folks around here has greatly enlightened me about the said man, Joey Dee. I have to ask Ate Suzanne where can I confirm or read that his License was stripped away from him. Thanks to the one that posted a site about an employment company and downloaded it right on my pda. It's good to have the truth around.

ABout the said leakage, I mean thousands of students are waiting for the result. One month after, the news is still vague on when will they release it. We are hanging here. If Gapuz did it then investigate. Just don't leave us hanging here.

No one really knows for certain if "leakage" is the thing of the past. I have read some post defending her Sir Ray. It's but an expected reaction. No one knows for certain. But it is possible, even highly probable, considering the MARKET of nursing students here in the Philippines are very conducive for money making entities (nursing schools and review centers). Paying off millions is but a small sum compared to the billions you will be earning. I hear nationalist shouting but let's be blunt and brutally honest. I love my country man, but this is Philippines. Everything is POSSIBLE.

As I have mentioned someone, there was a faculty at that time that said that someone didn't graduated in BSN summa cum laude. Even a cum laude. Hey, I mean, I'm not doing slander right? But hearsays are abundant here. Nursing Pa. But that's just a trivia. I'm not saying that I am very very sure about it. Let me do my research first. It's really not that bad to say hearsays here in the country. I'm being brutally honest again. TO the readers, no offense. This will be my first and last on such hearsays.

I'm tired of hearsays. Whenever I asked Deans of certain schools if they are sure on what they are saying and they will just shrug their shoulders and say "Sinabi lang ni ganito.." What the heck. Now, for the record, someone tell me that site where I can confirm that Joey Dee is not an RN in the US. Not associated with the AHA and I will take a 180 degree turn. I will not recommend to those under me to go to the said review center. Let me reiterate, the review center is not that bad. But going there in bad faith that you believe that he has the credentials gives me flip-flops in my stomach.

And to Ate Suzanne, thanks for helping.

The truth is out there.

Newly Graduated Nurse who took the Board this June 2006

**PS

Hope to join you as colleagues soon. God Bless.

RUN was good in teaching before but now the passing rate of the students is going down as time goes on. better try pentagon their nclex review is about 14T. don't mind in spending a little in ur review as long as they will give you a quality one go for it and pentagon will do it for u. they give the most quality education that they could give and You will not find dull moment in reviewing to them it's lyk your wathing in a comedy bar but you learn so much in what they are saying.

it's just my suggestion hope it will helps

yes, it helps a lot!! thanks so much for ur reply RN062006...now i just have to phone pentagon and inquire..thanks..

its too sad that these things asre happening to us,aspiring nurses of batch 2006, i really don't get it why we have to go through this when in fact what we all want is a good and stable job for our families..i acknowledge the courage of those board takers who until now is fighting and believing for the truth inspite of the rumors and also the concern of all you guys who in some way are so nice to even think of us..

i just hope that everything would end up good and that everyone would be able to have peace of mind(i know everyone of my batch wants to have it)so to everyone out there may God Bless us and may we help one another for the benefit of every human who needs our help...

http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/wllqryna$lcev2.startup?p_qte_code=RN&p_qte_pgm_code=7800

that's the website of california license verification.

type Joey Dee's Name. and then click his highlighted name.

Thanks to gracediwa for posting the site. I really do appreciate it as I found out the truth about my mentor. And if it's wrong then he should bear the consequence of his actions. I am an honor graduate of a known university and as soon as possible, I will separate my name away from him. I'm just starting...

It's common sense. If your license is revoked then you can't ba a member of AHA. Thanks to all of you. I am now an enlightened nurse graduate.

Still waiting for that result so I can append the "nurse" or "RN" part in my name corrupted.

Thanks to all of you.

what is going on with board exam results for the june 2006 exams in the philippines? i would love to hear any news or updates.:)

piece of advice to all reviewee, when reviewing, put your heart into it. it is very important to submit yourself studying the boards. once you pass your local board, you will use the same heart on upcoming exams.( eg. CGFNS, NCLEX.)

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