The Board of Nursing resolution granting the release of only the board examination results of West Negros College graduates with loads not exceeding 30 units and Related Learning Experience hours, as prescribed in Commission on Higher Education Memo No. 30, Series of 2001, may mean that only 127 examinees will get relief.

The Board of Nursing has not yet given a specific date when the examination results of those with 30 units and below will be released.

Nelia Gonzales, leader of the WNC students in Iloilo demanding the release of the December 2005 Nurse Licensure Examination results, said there are 599, not only 460, WNC graduates who took the examination.

Of the 599, only about 127 had 30 units and below, about 300 took 31 to 35 units a semester, and the rest had 36 units and above, Gonzales said.

Most of those with 36 units and above were doctors, medical technicians, physical therapists and pharmacists who had to re-enroll in subjects they had already taken before, she said.

Resolution No. 4 said the release of results of WNC examinees with loads exceeding 30 units will be withheld, and their transcripts of records and papers will be submitted to CHED for evaluation.

The recommendation of the CHED, based on its evaluation, will then be the basis for the Nursing Board and PRC to either release the examinees' board examination results, or cause the "cancellation of their licensure examination and/or disbarment from future examinations," the resolution said.

WNC Nursing Dean Zenaida Hilado yesterday said they will just wait for the findings of CHED.

Meanwhile, PRC regional director Lily Ann Baldago yesterday denied reports from Iloilo that she is resigning. "I am sorry to disappoint them," she said.*CPG

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