The Commission on Higher Education will ask universities for help in conducting “quality review” classes for nursing graduates who have yet to pass the board examination. | JeromeAningINQ
According to De Vera, historically, only 50 percent of nursing board takers pass the test. He said that among the reasons cited by those who failed were lack of preparation and failure to take review classes due to lack of money.
For those who did take review classes, they claimed their reviewers were not good enough, he added. “We need to find the other 50 percent because they already have undergone hospital training, they have already studied nursing and they only had problems in passing the licensure test. So why [don’t] we help and guide them so that they can pass [the exam] so that immediately, we can add nurses in our hospitals?” De Vera said.Another “immediate action” to be taken by the CHEd in the coming weeks would be the redesigning of the nursing master’s degree—a requirement for those teaching in nursing schools. De Vera noted that nursing schools could not expand their enrollment because even teachers were being recruited abroad. Under the “hybrid” master’s degree program, the course will be shortened by crediting the students’ prior work experience as nurse or medical worker. The students will also be eligible for tuition and miscellaneous fees subsidies from the government in exchange for teaching in the country for a set period.Your subscription has been successful.
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