The results of the Philippine nursing licensure exams are out. Today.
Before you jump to any conclusions, no, I was not one of the nearly 80,000 who took the test. I haven't even graduated yet. However, a couple of my friends in the school paper were June takers and I am as excited as they are about the results.
No one told me the results were out today. I don't even have a damn cell phone so even a simple text message informing me about the NLE results was out of the picture. It was just a whim, I guess, since every few days I would casually scan the net to see if the June 2007 results were posted. It was necessary that I know since we were supposed to post the results at the school paper as well.
So when I searched the net, lo and behold, only 48% passed. My eyes almost fell from my sockets (okay, so that was an exaggeration, but I was still stunned with how low the national passing rate was). I mean, below 50% ? Really, was the performance of the June 2007 takers that dismal?
I can only click my tongue. It was disappointing. The national passing rate has been slipping each year and this is probably one of the lowest it has ever been. What does it imply to the rest of the world? Only one thing: we are churning less competent nurses. Because of the high demand and the endless sprouting of diploma mill nursing schools, the Philippines is left with half-baked, half-decent student nurses. It's rather ironic. We are the biggest supplier of nurses in the WORLD and yet, as time goes on, our professional "exports" are becoming less and less globally competitive and competent.
I snort whenever I hear nursing students in my college complain how hard nursing is. I find their complaints pathetic. If they already think nursing is hard, they should try engineering, computer science, law or medicine. Nursing isn't even half as bad as they make it appear to be. You hardly do any analysis. Just memorization. And the things you memorize aren't even as many or as intensive as when you take physical therapy or medicine. Nursing isn't taxing mentally, but it is physically demanding, as duties and requirements take long hours. But hey, almost all college courses make you study until the wee hours of the morning anyway. I honestly believe that many student nurses out there are not suitable nurses. I'm not saying that I am better than them, but they hardly put any effort in their studies nor do they even bother doing extra effort caring for their patients. No wonder the nursing quality in the Philippines is on the decline. So many people are taking it and yet they aren't truly meant for the said profession.
Whatever. It's not like it's going to stop hordes of people from taking up nursing anyway. Because for many people, nursing is not about caring for other people anymore. It's about going abroad and earning dollars. We have to be practical. These are hard times after all.
As for me, I'm going to probably spend the next two hours trying to open the website holding the results of NLE June 2007 while amusing myself with The Da Vinci Code on HBO.
Yay for cable!
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Under the Weather
We just finished our induction. I got home just half an hour ago and had a slice of pizza and some cold chocolate drink (as if the food in Linmarr wasn't enough already...wah, I'm a glutton).
I feel tired. Honestly, I feel that all my energy has been spent trying to stay cheerful and energetic during the seminar workshop / induction thingie. Being EIC is hard work. *sigh*
Maybe it had something to do with Roh and Jinx leaving early because of some unknown reason or maybe due to the fact that Franz bailed on me druing the closing remarks. I don't know. Maybe it was both. Geez, it's frustrating that the things that are currently getting me down are the staffers who already graduated.
Allow me to rant (it's not like anyone's going to read this or anything). I simply don't understand why Roh and Jinx just left like that. It seemed like they were mad at me. Maybe I'm overthinking this. They could just have another appointment scheduled somewhere else but Meloi, Victor and Aela had told me Roh seemed quite cross that we had done the oath-taking ceremony so soon. They explained that supposed to be, Roh's father would come to watch his daughter deliver a speech during the induction/oath taking part of the activity. It could not be helped really why the oath-taking thing was done far earlier than expected. We (meaning the entire Clarion possie) had arrived late due to a series of mishaps involving miscommunication (or the entire lack of it in my case since I lost my cell phone), missing nametags, unexpected changes in the programme and the long time it took to get a jeep. Honestly, if given the opportunity, we would have followed the schedule and had the oath-taking/induction thing at the end of the programme where it belonged, but since our speaker in electronic layouting was having some technical difficulties with their computer and the speaker in contemporary newswriting wasn't arriving until much later, we really didn't have much of a choice. An empty stage was not appropriate so we had to move the induction thing earlier. If Roh was angry about that, she was being unreasonable. She was Clarion EIC before me and she knew and experienced most of the problems that comes with seminar workshops. If she was angry that she could not make her speech without her father at the audience, then she should not take that against us. She did not inform us earlier that her father was coming, and in addition, she had all the opportunity to let her father watch/listen to her speeches in all the seminar workshops done during her term as EIC.
In Franz's case, I was simply fuming internally when he suddenly disappeared when it was time to give the closing remarks. He had agreed to do it after we made a deal that he do a small speech/critiquing, and in return, I'll make him a design for something in Photoshop. What I hate the most is people bailing out on the last minute after they have already committed. It's annoying to expect but get stood up in the end. If we had other officials from the school besides Ma'am Jovy, our moderator, we wouldn't be asking Franz to do the closing remarks. I didn't want to do it anymore because it was starting to get embarrasing and pathetic as I've been trudging up and down the stage for like four or five times already, doing some of the stuff and speeches I shouldn't be doing because of the absence of some school officials in our activity. When Franz came back, grinning, I came over to him and told him with a pout that I hated him for bailing out at the last minute. He explained he had to answer a call. Whatever. How convenient that the call came when it was his turn to do closing remarks. I wanted to punch him, and I did actually (but only lightly) at the shoulder. The thing is that when I'm angry, it's not always obvious that I am, and it sometimes looks like I'm just lightly scolding / telling someone off. *sigh* Franz is still the same. He may have gained some weight over the months, but he still is the same old Franz.
I feel tired. Honestly, I feel that all my energy has been spent trying to stay cheerful and energetic during the seminar workshop / induction thingie. Being EIC is hard work. *sigh*
Maybe it had something to do with Roh and Jinx leaving early because of some unknown reason or maybe due to the fact that Franz bailed on me druing the closing remarks. I don't know. Maybe it was both. Geez, it's frustrating that the things that are currently getting me down are the staffers who already graduated.
Allow me to rant (it's not like anyone's going to read this or anything). I simply don't understand why Roh and Jinx just left like that. It seemed like they were mad at me. Maybe I'm overthinking this. They could just have another appointment scheduled somewhere else but Meloi, Victor and Aela had told me Roh seemed quite cross that we had done the oath-taking ceremony so soon. They explained that supposed to be, Roh's father would come to watch his daughter deliver a speech during the induction/oath taking part of the activity. It could not be helped really why the oath-taking thing was done far earlier than expected. We (meaning the entire Clarion possie) had arrived late due to a series of mishaps involving miscommunication (or the entire lack of it in my case since I lost my cell phone), missing nametags, unexpected changes in the programme and the long time it took to get a jeep. Honestly, if given the opportunity, we would have followed the schedule and had the oath-taking/induction thing at the end of the programme where it belonged, but since our speaker in electronic layouting was having some technical difficulties with their computer and the speaker in contemporary newswriting wasn't arriving until much later, we really didn't have much of a choice. An empty stage was not appropriate so we had to move the induction thing earlier. If Roh was angry about that, she was being unreasonable. She was Clarion EIC before me and she knew and experienced most of the problems that comes with seminar workshops. If she was angry that she could not make her speech without her father at the audience, then she should not take that against us. She did not inform us earlier that her father was coming, and in addition, she had all the opportunity to let her father watch/listen to her speeches in all the seminar workshops done during her term as EIC.
In Franz's case, I was simply fuming internally when he suddenly disappeared when it was time to give the closing remarks. He had agreed to do it after we made a deal that he do a small speech/critiquing, and in return, I'll make him a design for something in Photoshop. What I hate the most is people bailing out on the last minute after they have already committed. It's annoying to expect but get stood up in the end. If we had other officials from the school besides Ma'am Jovy, our moderator, we wouldn't be asking Franz to do the closing remarks. I didn't want to do it anymore because it was starting to get embarrasing and pathetic as I've been trudging up and down the stage for like four or five times already, doing some of the stuff and speeches I shouldn't be doing because of the absence of some school officials in our activity. When Franz came back, grinning, I came over to him and told him with a pout that I hated him for bailing out at the last minute. He explained he had to answer a call. Whatever. How convenient that the call came when it was his turn to do closing remarks. I wanted to punch him, and I did actually (but only lightly) at the shoulder. The thing is that when I'm angry, it's not always obvious that I am, and it sometimes looks like I'm just lightly scolding / telling someone off. *sigh* Franz is still the same. He may have gained some weight over the months, but he still is the same old Franz.
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