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By Maricel V.
Cruz, Reporter
A team headed
by Rep. Monico Puentevella left for the United States on Sunday on a
mission to convince the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing
Schools to reconsider its decision on the retake of portions of the
leak-tainted June 2006 nursing licensure examinations.
The team will
present to CGFNS officials documentation and computations to justify
its stand that the 17,000 examinees who passed do not need to retake
the questionable portions of the tests, Puentevella said in an
interview.
The Bacolod
City congressman, who heads the House Committee on Youth and Sports,
acknowledged his group is practically on a “mission impossible.”
But we’ll do
our best for the sake of the 17,000 who passed the nursing board
exams,” he said.
The results of
their mission would go into crafting a law that would prevent a
repeat of the leakage in board exam, Puentevella said.
“We will try
and we will come up with a proposed legislation that will address
this problem on leakage [in professional examinations] such as
nursing board exams,” he said.
Puentevella
was accompanied by members of the Professional Regulation Commission
(PRC), the Board of Nursing, the Philippine Nurses’ Association
and the Association of Deans and Colleges of Nursing.
They were
expected to meet with CGFNS officials Sunday night (Monday morning
in Manila).
The CGFNS is
requiring passers of the 2006 nursing board exams to retake portions
of Tests 3 and 5 before they are granted VisaScreen certificates.
Medical
workers seeking jobs in the US must secure VisaScreen certificates
before they can be granted working visas.
If the CGFNS
is not swayed by the task force’s evidence, those who passed the
2006 nursing board could either apply for jobs in countries outside
the US or choose to retake the leaked portions.
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