Manila OK’d as NCLEX site
July 12, 2007
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Nurses may take first exam in Manila Aug. 23
By RAYMUND F. ANTONIO
Filipino nursing graduates may now take the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) in Manila after the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. (NCSBN) selected the country’s capital city as a new international NCLEX test site.
The NCSBN said it had approved the Philippine government’s request for the establishment of a testing center in Manila.
Dawn Kappel, NCSBN director for marketing and communications, said the examination appointments are scheduled on July 13, Friday and the NCLEX will be administered on August 23 at the International Pearson Professional Center in Manila.
"The Manila site was chosen in February by the NCSBN Board of Directors because of the deep commitment shown by the Philippine government to ensuring a secure test center," Kappel said.
The NCSBN is a nonprofit organization comprising the boards of nursing in 50 states, the District of Columbia and four United States territories.
He said the Manila test site will allow for greater customer service to nurses without compromising the goal of safeguarding the public health, safety and welfare of patients in the US.
The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO), chaired by Secretary Dante Ang, initiated efforts last year to have the Philippines as a venue for the NCLEX.
The efforts were nearly scuttled by the controversial leakage in the June licensure nursing exam.
Filipino nurses are required to take the NCLEX exams, a standardized test, to get a license to work in the US. Each state board of nursing in the US uses the exam to determine the credentials of a nurse.
According to NCSBN, the NCLEX examination fee for examinees stands at 0 or R9,200 at current conversion rates. "Candidates who elect to take the NCLEX at an international site pay an additional 0 when they schedule their examination," it said.
Meanwhile, Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) Chairperson Leonor Tripon-Rosero said the result of this year’s nursing licensure examination, where 78,000 nursing graduates, including the "retakers", will be released in the last week of August.
The current international sites for NCLEX are in London, England; Hong Kong; Sydney, Australia; Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, Canada; Frankfurt, Germany; Mumbai, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Chennai, India; Mexico City, Mexico; Taipei, Taiwan; and Chiyoda-ku and Yokohama, Japan.
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