37,679 pass nursing board exam; Ateneo de Naga grad is No. 1

KIMBERLY JANE T. TAN, GMANews.TV

08/27/2010 | 12:45 PM
(Updated) A total of 37,679 examinees passed the July 2010 Nurse Licensure Examination, with a nursing graduate of the Ateneo De Naga University (ADNU) in Camarines Sur topping the list of passers.

A complete list of passers released by the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) on Friday showed that only 41.4 percent of the 91,008 examinees passed the exam given on July 3 and 4.

The PRC said the exam’s topnotcher was Rayan Abogado Oliva of ADNU, who had a score of 86.8 percent.

In a television interview, Oliva said he felt “mixed emotions" upon hearing the news that he topped this year’s set of exam passers.

“I was happy. I was excited. I was proud," he said in an interview aired over GMA News’ “24 Oras."

Oliva was followed by Aileen Ancanan Austria of the De Los Santos-STI College, Inc. (86.40 percent); Allyce Joana Toledo De Leon and Anna Vanessa Ang Gan of the University of Santo Tomas (both with 86 percent); Alyssa Leonila Dela Silva Guiam of the Centro Escolar University-Manila (85.80 percent); and Charmaine Camacho Gauiran of the Remedios Trinidad Romualdez Memorial School (85.6 percent).

They are joined by 85 other passers, most of whom had tied scores, in the list of the Top 10 passers.

While ADNU produced this year’s topnotcher, the University of the Philippines (UP) Manila, Saint Paul University in Iloilo, and Chinese General Hospital College of Nursing and Liberal Arts in Manila were No. 1 in the passing rate.

UP Manila and Saint Paul garnered a 100 percent passing rate while Chinese General received a passing rate of 99 percent.

Meanwhile, the PRC said the examination results of five examinees will be withheld until the PRC determines their "liabilities" under the rules and regulations governing the licensure examination.

The July 2010 nursing board exam was held in Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Dagupan, Davao, Iloilo, La Union, Legazpi, Lucena, Pagadian, Pampanga, Tacloban, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga.
 

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