WHEREAS, THE BOARD OF NURSING HAS NOTED THE INCREASING NUMBER OF DEFERRED LIST

WHEREAS, the Board of Nursing has noted the increasing number of
deferred list of successful examinees each time the results of the
examination is released and an increasing number of spurious or
falsified Transcript of Records, Diplomas, Clinical Experience Records
(RLE) and Special Orders (SO) submitted by applicants to support their
applications for admission in the nurse licensure examination;

WHEREAS, to eradicate these irregular practices, the Board recommends
that there should be a joint and a coordinated efforts of this office
with the Officials of the Colleges and Universities, particularly, the
Deans and the Registrars, to enforce strictly Resolution No. 260, Series
of 1988, requiring all Deans of Colleges of Nursing to submit to the
Board an Official List of their graduates, who would be candidates to
the licensure examination at least one month before the schedule of the
examination.  The Memo Circular No. 84-06, dated June 8, 1984, was
circularized to all colleges of nursing for strict compliance as per
records of the Commission;

WHEREAS, the practice of accepting applications conditionally with
only a Certification from the Registrar of the college, certifying that
the graduate-applicant has completed all the requirements for graduation
has promoted irregularities in several instances.  The supporting
papers required for admission such as Transcript of Records, Diplomas,
RLE, with OR/DR scrubs, are not yet available even after a reasonable
length of time after the date of graduation.  The Board discovered that
some applicants have not yet graduated or have not complied with all the
requirements for graduation at the time of their admission in the
examination;

WHEREAS, the Board noted and observed that repeaters were again
allowed to take the examination without the necessary school credentials
submitted with their application forms which later were found to have
some deficiencies or incomplete scholastic records.  Applicants who
flunk in previous examination must be required to submit their complete
scholastic records upon application in a subsequent examination,
otherwise their application should be denied;

NOW, THEREFORE, the Board hereby resolved to recommend that the
following guidelines must be strictly enforced before admission in the
licensure examination:

1.       Only graduates in the nursing course of the semester
preceding the scheduled examination shall be allowed to submit a
certification of having completed the requirements for graduation,
signed by the Dean and the Registrar.  Graduates of previous years must
be required to submit all the requirements for admission to the
examination, otherwise their applications will be denied.

2.       All colleges of nursing including state colleges, shall submit at the end of each school-year the Official list of their graduates
certified by the Dean and the Registrar.  The list of the graduates
should be received by the Board at least one month before the date of
the examination. No application will be accepted or processed, unless
the name of the applicant appears on the list submitted directly to the
Board by the College or University which granted or conferred the
academic degree upon their graduates in compliance with Resolution No.
21 dated July 13, 1981, published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 84, No.
12 dated March 21, 1988;

3.       All applications of applicants who have acquired other
degrees and graduated in the nursing course shall be referred to the
Board of Nursing for interview or review of their credentials before
their applications are processed, to determine their compliance of the
requirements in the Nursing Course. Applicants who have cancelled their
other degree(s) in order to be admitted to the examination, if found,
will be held responsible and appropriate action will be taken against
them for their violations;

4.       That only graduates from Colleges of Nursing and
Universities duly recognized by the Department of Education, Culture and
Sports (DECS) which have been favorably recommended by the Board after
having officially inspected and have complied with the minimum essential
requirements and authorized to operate as an educational institution,
mandated in Section 3 of the Philippine Nursing Law, will be admitted to
the examination; and

5.       This resolution should be widely disseminated to all
Directors, Deans and Registrars of the Colleges of Nursing for their
guidance and for compliance to all concerned.

Adopted: 19 Feb. 1990

(SGD.) RAQUEL O. CASTILLO Chairman
(SGD.) GRACE AGUINALDO-AGUSTIN Member	(SGD.) SISTER AGNETIA NAVAL Member
(SGD.) ERLINDA L. ORTIN Member	(SGD.) MILBURGA D. DIPALING-SALUDAR Member

Approved:

(SGD.) JULIO B. FRANCIA, JR. Commissioner
(SGD.) ROSALINDA A. VICENTE Associate Commissioner	(SGD.) MARIANO A. MENDIETA Associate Commissioner