The Steady Decline of Board Passers in the NLE
The results of the November 2009 Nursing Licensure Exams were released a few days ago. As expected, issues on the quality of nursing education was on the limelight once again. There are a lot of things to say about this issue. Now, where do I begin?
Here are the NLE passing rates from June 2007 until November 2009
* 48.18% passed the June 2007 NLE. There were 64,909 test takers.
* The December 2007 NLE had 42.70 % passing rate.
* Only 43.07 % passed the June 2008 board exams.
* In November of the same year, the passing rate went down to 44.51 %
* Last June 2009, the NLE passing rate was 41.87%
* The recent board exam has the lowest passing rate among the past 5 licensure examinations. 39.73% of test takers passed the NLE. Out of 94,462 examinees, only 37, 527 passed the exam. This examination cycle also has highest number of examinees.
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Too Many Bad Apples in the Basket
The Philippines is known worldwide to produce quality nurses. For the past couple of decades, the demand for Filipino nurses has been so great that numerous nursing schools started coming out like mushrooms.
The proliferation of substandard nursing schools is pulling the nursing industry down.
