"Nursing" the board exams?

For the past few days, the leakage in this month's nursing board exams was the talk of the town.

Yesterday, I read another story about the said issue in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. It says there that " Nursing schools execs call for swift investigation of leak in board exams."

It was said there that deans and faculty members of the country's more established nursing schools urged the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) should create independent body to investigate the said incident.

In line with this story, I think there should really investigate this matter. The PRC should immediately do something in finding the truth behind the leakage issue. The alleged leakage will affect not only nursing examinees of the recent exam but the whole country as well.

Many Filipino nurses are being hired abroad and many of the nursing graduates aim to work abroad. But if the issue on the alleged leakage in the nursing board exams goes on and the other countries eventually learn about it, what will they think of the quality of our nurses? They will surely doubt on the quality of Filipino nurses if they learn that some of the nursing examinees relied on the leakage.

The PRC should prevent this kind of situation to happen. They should act now and investigate the matter clearly and properly.

I will add another issue I found in the same story. It is written that, "the reality is that there are just too many nursing enrollees and nursing schools but not enough hospitals to provide the clinical experience and not enough qualified and experienced teachers."

It is true that they are too many nursing students that graduate and take board exams but there are few hospitals and qualified teachers that provide proper training to these students. If this is so, the quality of our future nurses is at risk. What more when there would be leakage in the board exam? What will happen to their future? If they are not properly trained and only passed the exam through leakage, are they fit to their chosen profession?