By Joyce Pangco Pañares
Manila Standard Today
THE American National Council of State Boards of Nursing has rejected President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s request to include the Philippines as an accredited venue of the United States licensure exam for foreign nurses.
Mrs. Arroyo met with the council’s president, Faith Fields, and associate executive director Dr. Casey Marks yesterday to brief them on what was being done to address the leak of test questions during the June board exams for nurses.
But they told the President that the Philippines—up for consideration as a venue before the scandal—would have to wait “some time” before its application could be taken up again.
“Some time needs to pass, and that is definitely after a final decision is made clear,” Fields said in an interview after the meeting.
“I think the entire nursing world is looking at what your action will be. We are very interested to see how you handle the crisis… You don’t want to waste opportunity to make your own system better.”
Commission on Filipinos Overseas chairman Dante Ang said the President was told that some 14 states in the US did not want to reconsider the Philippines’ application as an accredited testing center after the June test leaks.
About 17,000 nursing graduates passed the tainted exams, and many of them oppose a government plan to administer new tests.
Filipinos make up about 83 percent of the American council’s examinees in its international testing centers in Hong Kong and Saipan.
The council administers the National Council Licensure Examination, which is taken by more than 9,000 Filipino nurses yearly.
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