CGFNS TO JUNE ’06 NURSING BOARD PASSERS

‘No partial retake, no migration to US’

By Veronica Uy
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 07:10pm (Mla time) 02/15/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) said on Thursday it needs to study how to respond to the US position that nurses who passed the June 2006 licensure exam cannot migrate there unless they retake portions of the test that were leaked.

Interviewed by phone, PRC chairperson Leonor Tripon-Rosero confirmed the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) decision that passers in “the compromised licensure exam of June 2006 are not eligible for a VisaScreen Certificate.”

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