A passer’s grievance….
Now everybody’s calling for a “retake”...
PRC and its subordinates dragged all graduate nurses into this embarrassing mess that until this point, not one of them has braved their way in clearing up the trouble they recklessly fashioned.
Releasing the results of the board exams right after the PRC admitted that the examination contents were breached, was no more than a vintage move of the board of nursing to silence the crowd of examinees. It silenced me, a board passer, but those who failed the exams roared off like mad mobs demanding for a recount, and now a retake. But I can’t blame any of them, not that it is their right, but because there’s a wild reason to do so.
I passed because I worked hard. I passed without a share of the “leak”. I passed, and I’d pass it still given a retake. But in all sense it is unfair, not to mention the expenses that we will have to burden our parents once more, and the stressful experience that we have to go through again for the preparation. I made it through the cut-off passing rate and I deserve this victory.
Let those who are responsible for this “crime” suffer the consequences, not the graduate nurses. I’ve ventured on a 4-year course for an exam that will judge my competence, and the board of nursing has one little thing to do in their profession, to make a 500-item licensure exam and they did not deliver, more so, they gave out their manuscripts for a price… a price that we instead are paying.
I’ve watched the news here and there and the PRC, the NBI, the CONGRESS have not given one sensible statement about the issues that even an uneducated vendor could have solved by now. These authorities have shut their mouths too long that they have angered a lot of people concerned. I am hung up in this clutter and so are the other 42 thousand graduate nurses…
Of course a “retake” is all that there is to resort to. But for many, it is not a fair deal. Not for me, not for the majority of the 17 thousand passers. At one side, it is a selfish thought, but a retake is just too much to ask from those who did pass it. I do share the grief of the victims of the leakage, but as a passer, I also have my own grievances for everybody to hear out…like most of those whose names appeared on the broadsheets, I worked 2 grueling months browsing my books, I woke up at the earliest hours to attend my review sessions, I had my part in prayers…and I passed it..i earned it…I should be by now a registered nurse, no less…
Let’s face the truth, a retake is a redemption of those who failed, and a threat on those who passed…
But if we are indeed left without a choice but a RETAKE, we will cave in if it’s for the sake of recovering the dignity of the nursing profession…in the condition that those seated in the board of nursing waive their resignation over and have credible people man the commission. If they demand a retake, then we demand a reboot of responsibility.
This is a crime done many times over, and this is the worst it can get…
We couldn’t disappoint ourselves more…
This is a crime of greed, of cheating…
And this is no longer acceptable…
The leak was true..
2 BON members should be behind the bars right now…
The PRC keeps making endless alibis
And they have gone deaf even…
The NBI has not moved a muscle to solve any of this...
The congress is too busy to listen …
UST has gone mad fighting over a number of petitions…
17 thousand or so passers are just without jobs…
The other 20 thousand are fighting for a retake…
And job offers from all locations have died down…
And yet, just like any other case…
Another hopeless tragedy…
This is History….
All over again…
