Successful examinees in the December 2007 Nursing Licensure Examination will have their oathtaking ceremony on March 17 and 18, 2008 at the SMX Convention Center, Pasay City, the Professional Regulation Commission announced.

Those participating in the ceremony are instructed to come in their white gala uniform, nurses’ cap, white duty shoes, without earrings and corsage, and hair not touching the collar, the PRC instruction said.

Requirements for those who will register and sign in the Roster of Register Professionals are required to bring a duly accomplished Oath Form, or Panunumpa ng Propesyonal, current community tax, two pieces passport size colored picture with white background and complete nametag, two sets of metered documentary stamps and a short brown envelope with name and profession.

Initial registration fee is P600 and annual registration fee is P450 for 2008-2011, the PRC announced.

Meanwhile, the Colegio San Agustin-Bacolod registered a total passing rate of 59 percent in the December 2007 nursing examination and not 41 percent as earlier reported.  Out of the 354 nursing students from CSA-B who took the examination, 209 passed among them are 185 first time takers.

CSA-B’s 59 percent passing rate is higher than the national passing rate of 43.45 percent.

Based on results from the PRC, 28,924 out of 67,728 examinees passed the December nursing board exam given in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi, Lucena, Tacloban, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga.*NAB

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