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Monday, April 10, 2006
WNC grad struggle over, finally take their RN oath
By Jay Dooma Balnig
AFTER a long and controversy-laden wait, the second-courser Nursing graduates of West Negros College (WNC) have finally taken their oath as registered nurses.
Some 460 out of 504 Nursing graduates of WNC took their oath yesterday before Noel Cadete, governor of the Philippine Nurses Association in a mass oath taking yesterday at the WNC compound, Bacolod City.
The said graduate passed the December 2005 Nursing Licensure Examination but after several questions arising from alleged academic overload, their examination results were withheld by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).
The withholding of the examination results occurred when the Board of Nursing (BON) of PRC found several pieces of evidence that the school and the Commission of Higher Education (Ched) permitted students to overload.
The students, through their legal counsel, Atty. Nelia Jesus Gonzales claimed the PRC could not blame the students as the Ched itself authorized the WNC management to practice such scheme.
The PRC earlier announced that they are running after the alleged violation of students and as a consequence, some of 504 second coursers from WNC were not able to get their examination results.
But because of the pressure from the House of Representatives's Committee on Civil Service and Professional Regulation Commission, the PRC has no option but to release the results.
Last Friday, April 7, the concerned graduates headed by Gonzales, met President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo at the Iloilo Domesitc Airport. It was their second meeting. The first was last January, during the peak of the controversy where the graduates sought Ms Arroyo's intervention.
Aside from the WNC graduates, there were several from other schools who joined the mass oath taking, making it a total of 476 new nurses./JDB
(April 10, 2006 issue)
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