CGFNS should consider PRC’s competence

First posted 00:50:10 (Mla time) 2007-02-27
Inquirer

Perhaps this is what happened to the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) when it sent a fact-finding mission to Manila last September to look into the leakage of test questions in the June 2006 nursing licensure exam, when the scandal was at its height. It saw the trees.

Perhaps, the CGFNS may now be able to see the forest, too. All these years the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) has been giving licenses to thousands of nurses (and other professionals). And these nurses are highly appreciated for their competence, the reason they are very much in demand, too, all over the world, including the United States where 83 percent of foreigner-nurses are from the Philippines. In this, the PRC has shown itself most competent.

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