Top nursing educators and former CHED authorities say that the recent nursing board exam leakage is just the tip of a bigger problem – the deterioration in the country’s nursing education and government’s export of nurses abroad.

By Arthur L. Allad-iw
Northern Dispatch

Bulatlat.com

BAGUIO CITY – “Why blame us on the mess attributable to few persons, particularly the two members of the Board of Nursing (BON),” said one of the Nursing Board exam passers who was among the complainants on a case against those involved in the recent board leakage scam filed at the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) in Manila.

Addressing thousands of professional nurses and nursing students to the main issue where those involved in the scam must be investigated and punished, Vernon Peralta, who passed the board exams for nurses June this year, emotionally said in a forum on August 11 that board examinees should not be made as sacrificial lambs for the mess as the wrong was committed not by them.

Dr. Fe Marilyn Lorenzo and Prof. Cora Anonuevo, both from the College of Nursing of the University of the Philippines in Manila, told the fully-packed forum that they had been calling for the resignations of the members of the BON to pave the way for the investigation. The move was also to cleanse the agency that prepares and administers the board exam for nursing.

Held at the Easter College gymnasium here, the forum was attended by at least 2,000 nursing professionals and students from different schools in Baguio, Cordillera, Pangasinan, La Union and Ilocos. The forum entitled: “Quo Vadis Philippine Nursing?” tackled the burning issues on leakage scam and the public health care system.

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