Friday, October 06, 2006 Wenceslao: Nursing board exams By Bong O. Wenceslao
YOU do not walk in the dark unless you carry a flashlight, except perhaps if you are a rebel or up to something no good. I therefore consider Malacañang's decision to defer the issuance of an executive order on the nursing board exams as logical. Gather all the needed details on the leakage fiasco first, and an enlightened decision will follow.
I won't go with the argument that the only way to cleanse the supposedly tainted image of the June 2006 nursing board exams is to order the examinees to retake it. Is there an assurance that everybody will become saints come retake time? There will always be suspicions for as long as authorities fail to go to the bottom of the matter first.
I am sure many of those pushing for the retake don't really know what happened to the June 2006 test. I take it that only one or two review schools in one or two areas in Luzon was linked to the irregularity. What percentage is that, overall? And you destroy a cloth just because you have noticed a small patch of dirt on its surface?
Nobody will hire those who passed the June 2006 nursing board exams? Crap. Anyway, why won’t government survey the firms that hire nurses abroad to find out the truth of this claim? Or why not be objective about the hiring procedure of hospitals in other countries? For all we know, we might just be the only ones bloating the effect of the leakage on our nurses’ image abroad.
MY BATCH. I did meet some of my former classmates in high school last Sept. 22, feast day of the patron saint of Pardo. Eneria, our host, was there together with Letty, Gemma, Sandra and Edna. The reminiscing was good but the time spent for it was short. I ask the others to continue informing us of their whereabouts and contact numbers.
By the way, the Oct. 21 grand reunion of alumni of Southwestern University’s high school department is just around the bend but I still have to know the details of the activity. Organizers need to send press releases to guide those who may want to join.
CAMOTES. After seven months of existence, my blog at cebuano. wordpress.com is starting to pick up. Recently, I was pleasantly surprised to receive comments on the special report on Camotes that I posted there a few weeks ago. A reader, Lineth, informed me of the new website WowCamotes at www.wowcamotes. com. To my paisanos, do visit the site from time to time.
