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RP's best and worst bared
By Delon Porcalla
The Philippine Star 05/29/2005

A congressman bared a list of the country's best and worst
yesterday to help guide parents on where to send their children
aspiring to enter the profession.

"We are making this list available so that parents may be guided
accordingly, so as to avoid sending their children to deficient
whose graduates have at best lost the chance of passing the
licensure tests," said Catanduanes Rep. Joseph Santiago.

Santiago said the list had been "culled from the records" of the
Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), the agency that administers
licensure examinations, and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED),
the agency that supervises such higher learning institutions.

The lawmaker said he had been prodding CHED to evaluate "all
nationwide based on the performance of their graduates in professional
licensure and eligibility tests, and to put the ratings in the
newspapers for all to see."

Santiago said that out of the 55,744 school graduates who took
licensure examinations from 1999 to 2003, only 27,345, or 49 percent,
passed the exams to become registered nurses.

Included in the 20 best-performing were UP-Manila with
a passing percentage of 99 percent; St. Paul College-Iloilo and
Silliman University, 98 percent; University of Sto. Tomas, 97 percent;
West Visayas State University, 96 percent; St. Louis University-Baguio
and Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, 95 percent; Southern Luzon
Polytechnic College, 91percent; Trinity College and Cebu Doctors'
College, 89 percent; Mountain View College, 88 percent; Remedios
Romualdez Memorial School-Manila and University of the East-Ramon
Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center, 85 percent; St. Paul
University-Tuguegarao, 84 percent; Velez College Cebu, San Pedro
University-Davao and Cebu State College, 82 percent; De la Salle
University-Dasmari�as and La Salette-Santiago, 81 percent; and
Romualdez Medical Foundation, 80 percent.

Among the worst were Mapandi Memorial College at nine
percent; Gallego Foundation Colleges, 15 percent; Galang Medical
Center, 17 percent; Unciano Colleges, 18 percent; Good Samaritan
Colleges, 19 percent; Lipa City Colleges, Immaculate Conception
College-Albay, Mabini Colleges and St. Gabriel College-Kalibo, 20
percent; Notre Dame of Jolo College and Philippine College of Health
and Sciences, 21 percent; Golden Gate Colleges, Northern Christian
Colleges and Tecarro College Foundation, 22 percent; Dr. P. Ocampo
Colleges, De Ocampo Colleges and World Citi Colleges-QC, 23 percent;
San Pablo Colleges and Medina College, 24 percent; and City College of
Urdaneta, 25 percent.


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[hsieh]

i don't think it's the school - it's preparing to take the nclex - you need to buy a nclex book (a good one) from saunders ect. the nclex study guides give you thousands of questions and all you need to know. you need to practice, practice, practice, the nclex study guide - and it has to be a good one - like saunders.

[nursinghumor]

It could very well be the schools. With the lure of great paying jobs in other countries so great, nursing schools are springing up like wildfire in the Philippines.

They're springing up very quickly and are largely unregulated. Curriculums are not standardized, faculty are not always qualified, standards have not been defined.

The school you go to will definitely make a difference if it sprang up out of nowhere in the last year or two and 90% of it's graduates are flunking the licensure exam.

I'm glad to see this information is being published. If nothing else, it will prompt nursing students and their parents to be a bit more selective about the schools they choose.

Andrew Lopez, RN
http://www.4nursingschools.com

[kimmiejs]

Are there any standards that the schools have to meet to become accredited or maintain accreditation? Do the students have to take exams like NCLEX? Since I do not know anyone that went to a nursing school in the Philippines I am not sure about the nursing programs taught there.

[nursinghumor]

No, according to an article I posted here, there are no uniform standards for nursing schools, curriculum to be taught and educational requirements of nursing school faculty.

It's one of the reasons bout 50% of graduates flunk the NCLEX in the Philippines.

Not a good situation.

Andrew Lopez, RN
Nursing Associations, Degree Programs Online, Jokes, Schools, Scrubs, Uniforms & More
http://www.4nursing.com