MANILA, Philippines -- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Association of Deans of Philippine Colleges of Nursing (ADPCN) on Saturday agreed to provide free one-week special review sessions to any of the 17,000 June 2006 nursing board passers who would choose to take tests 3 and 5.
The partial retake was suggested by the United States’ Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) after it decided that it won’t issue VisaScreen certificates to those who took and passed what it called the “compromised” June 2006 nursing licensure exam.
Labor Secretary Arturo Brion and ADPCN president Carmelita Divinagracia signed a memorandum of agreement detailing the provision of 64 hours of review classes (40 hours for test 3 or medical nursing and 24 hours for test 5 or psychiatric nursing) for those who intend to take the tests to coincide with the regular nursing licensure exam on June and December 2007.
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