The PRC announces that the registration for the Nurse Licensure Examination on July 3 and 4, 2010 has started already up to April 14, 2010 for the repeaters and May 14, 2010 for the first time examinees.

The required documents are:

1. Duly accomplished Nurses’ Application Form (NAF);
2. NSO issued Certificate of Live Birth;
3. NSO issued Certificate of Marriage (for married women);
4. Transcript of Record with scanned picture and remarks: “For Board Examinations Purposes”;
5. Record of OR-DR Cases (for 1st timers only);
6. Summary of Related Learning Experience – (for 1st timers only);
7. Four (4) pieces passport size (1 ½ x 1 ½) colored picture with complete name tag in white background;
8. Community Tax Certificate;
9. Examination Fee of P900.00;
10. One (1) window mailing envelope; and
11. Valid Identification Card.

More from PRC:

Applications can be filed at PRC Manila, PRC Regional Offices and its satellite offices. For those who intend to file in Manila, filing may be done at the PRC Central Office located at P. Paredes cor. N. Reyes Sts., Sampaloc, Manila or at the PRC Service Center in EVER Gotesco Mall – Recto Branch. One day campus processing of applications may also be done in some schools which will be scheduled according to zones. The venues and dates will be announced later.

Out of 94,462 Nurse who took the Nurse Licensure Examination last November 2009, only 37,527 nurses passed the examination. Only 39.73% of the takers who passed the exam. The lowest percentage so far.

More announcement:

The results of examination with respect to sixteen (16) examinees were withheld pending final determination of their liabilities under the rules and regulations governing licensure examination.

Those who will register are required to bring the following: duly accomplished Oath Form or Panunumpa ng Propesyonal, current Community Tax Certificate (cedula), 2 pieces passport size picture (colored with white background and complete name tag), 1 piece 1” x 1” picture (colored with white background and complete name tag), 2 sets of metered documentary stamps, and 1 short brown envelope with name and profession; and to pay the Initial Registration Fee of P600 and Annual Registration Fee of P450 for 2010-2013. Successful examinees should personally register and sign in the Roster of Registered Professionals.

The oathtaking ceremony of the successful examinees in the said examination in Manila as well as the previous ones who have not taken their Oath of Professional will be held before the Board on Monday and Tuesday, March 8 and 9, 2010, with morning (8:00 A.M.) and afternoon (1:00 P.M.) sessions at the SMX Convention Center, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City. All must come in their white gala uniform, nurse’s cap, white duty shoes, without earrings, hair not touching the collar and without corsage.

Oathtaking tickets for the National Capital Region (NCR) and nearby regions will be available at the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) at 1663 F.T. Benitez Street, Malate, Manila, starting Monday, February 8, 2010 on a “first come first serve” basis.

Check the new registered nurses at Nursing Board Exam Result page.