Twenty-seven passers of the June 2006 Nursing Licensure Examination from Negros Occidental yesterday took their oaths as professional nurses at the Social Hall of the Provincial Capitol in Bacolod City.

Professional Regulation Commission lawyer Elias Guiloreza administered the oathtaking, while five other PRC personnel assisted the processing of the nurses' applications for registration.

On Aug. 18, a total of 698 nursing board passers took their oaths in Bacolod City, hours before a temporary restraining order was issued by the Court of Appeals.

The 27 new nurses yesterday also took their oaths as members of the Philippine Nurses' Association-Negros Occidental chapter administered by its president Nelsie Guevarra.

Guiloreza said the PRC will check on legal remedies for nursing board passers included in the list of examinees who will have to retake the examination, following a recomputation of scores.

He said the PRC is set to release the guidelines to be followed by the re-takers in preparation for the December NLE.

PRC Resolution 31 allowed a recomputation of scores that resulted in the passing of 1,687 more board takers. The same, however, resulted in the removal of 1,186 names from the original list of successful examinees. The CA ordered the 1,186 names reinstated in the list of passers, Guiloreza said.

The CA also ruled that 1,687 examinees would retake tests 3 and 5, he added.

Several parents and examinees who are included in the list of NLE re-takers aired their grievances to Guiloreza yesterday.

Juanito Yee, father of one of the examination re-takers, yesterday said he was overjoyed when he learned that his son passed the June NLE. He even sent his son on a vacation to Singapore as a present for a job well done, Yee said.

However, he was saddened when he found out that his son was among the 1,687 examinees who would have to retake tests 3 and 5.

Yee said he and several parents whose children are on the list of re-takers will set a dialog with Bacolod Rep. Monico Puentevella to solicit his help.

They are also asking the PRC to release the ratings of their children so that they will have basis in they decided to take legal action, Yee added.

Analyn Pabiona, one of the passers on the list of re-takers, said their examination ratings are important because they will serve as their evidence in defending themselves.

Meanwhile, Ellen Lindaya, vice-president of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers, yesterday said they will hold a thanksgiving mass at the San Sebastian Cathedral in Bacolod City this Friday.

Lindaya said she is inviting the nursing board passers, the parents and their supporters.*DMG

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