Something good this way comes for the Philippine nursing industry.

Everyone of us, at least at one point in our lives, has been through an interview. A pre-school kid playfully engages in an informal “talk” with her would-be principal; a gawky adolescent gathers her thoughts on what she feels about entering Grade 11; a confused teenager explains why she is taking the course that she is enrolled in; or a new grad defends why she is qualified for her first job. It’s no doubt that the face-to-face interview is one of the best ways of assessing

The Philippine Regulation Commission (PRC) has released the results of the Nurse Licensure Exams that took place last June 2 and 3, 2019. This year’s first semester results shows a higher number of passers versus the June 2018 NLEs, with June 2019 accumulating 5,059 passers whereas June 2018 only had 4,326 passers. June 2019's pass rate of 52.20% is also a significant improvement versus June 2018’s, as this is equivalent to an 8.38% point jump compared to last year’s 42.82% p

I have interviewed thousands of nurses and each time, the question that always come to mind is, "is this applicant qualified?". Interviewing is harder than it looks, but it’s worthwhile. As an interviewer, my primary job is to assess candidates. More important in my profession, though, is convincing the potential ones to stay with the employer. I know the expectations and dreams of applicants. Many come with impressive curriculum vitae; a handful have graduated with Latin hon

Click here to export the article to PDF for offline reading. After almost 1 year, tertiary government hospitals in Ireland are going back to the Philippines to conduct interviews among Filipino nurses. These delegates are visiting Manila from July 2 to 4, 2018 to interview IELTS / OET passer nurses through our agency, Abba Personnel Services, Inc. Ireland: Fastest and Easiest Process Among The Western Countries Western countries like Ireland are known for a number of advantag

White sand, turquoise seas, fresh air and year-round sunshine are just some of the things that the beautiful island country of Maldives is known for. This popular tourist destination is becoming popular especially among honeymooners, but there is more to Maldives than we give it credit for. Here are 7 interesting facts about this country: 1. Maldives is composed of a chain of 26 atolls. Atolls are ring-shaped coral reefs that encircle lagoons partially or completely. The cora

Filipino nurses are the most preferred nurses in hospitals and health care institutions abroad. They are prized for their outstanding skills, compassion, care and efficiency. Their ability to understand and speak the English language is one of their greatest advantages in the labor market. It’s hardly surprising, then, why the Philippines is hailed as the largest exporter of nurses in the world. Similar to the U.S.A. and some Middle East countries, Europe also hires hundreds

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has always played a special role in Philippine overseas migration. To-date, it is the largest hirer of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and has the largest Filipino population in the Middle East region. Filipinos make up the fourth largest group of foreigners in Saudi Arabia, accounting for the second largest source of remittances from the Philippines. It shouldn’t be a surprise, then, how Philippine migration is closely intertwined with the status

There has been a growing trend among individuals migrating to other countries for education, work, or even permanent settlement in the past decade. Despite this, transferring abroad still involves a number of requirements and processes to be able to migrate legally. One of these may be having to pass a language exam to assess one’s fluency in the primary language of a preferred country. One popular requirement is the International English Language Testing System, more commonl

Last June 17, Vintage Health Resources and Abba Personnel Services, Inc. held a 2-hour event in Astoria Plaza, Ortigas exclusively for registered nurses in the Philippines, called Fast Track To U.S.A. During the orientation, VHR and Abba received a number of questions from the 352 attendees. Below are some of the questions and their corresponding answers. QUESTIONS ABOUT THE NCLEX Q: Does Abba Personnel Services, Inc. assist with NCLEX processing? A: We encourage nurses to sc

The number of Filipino RN's taking the NCLEX had been the same in the last three years, settling down at about 4,000 takers per year. There were 4,580 takers in 2014, 4,034 in 2013, and 3,673 in 2012. Passing the NCLEX (National Council Licensure Examination) is a prerequisite in the licensure process for nurses who plan to work in the U.S. It is administered by the NCBSN (National Council of State Board of Nursing). The NCLEX is given in many countries, including the Philipp

There had been 556,702 Registered Nurses in the Philippines in the last 18 years , from April 1996 to May 2014. That's the number of passers in the country's nursing board exams , officially called the Nurse Licensure Exams (NLE) . There were a total of 1,311,708 exam takers, which means that the 18-year period posted a 42.4% passing rate . The number of takers started to rise in 2004, when there were more than 13,000 examinees, from the previuos year's 7,000. It went on to r

Yes, nowadays, hiring PT's or OT's (when we say PTs in this article, we also mean Occupational Therapists) for the U.S., and for that matter, other countries, is 20 times more difficult than hiring Filipino nurses. There are 3 major reasons why this is so: 1. There are fewer PT graduates than nurse graduates, and this can be seen from the decreasing number of takers in the PTLE (Physical Therapy Licensure Exam). In the last 9 years (from 2001 to June 2009), there were 538, 8

The NLE (Nurse Licensure Exams), of May 2015 has earned two distinctive records: it's the exam month with the fewest number of takers in the last 11 years, and the exam month with the second highest passing rate since December 2004. Passing rate is the number of passers divided by the number of takers. In the May 2015 NLE, there were 17,891 takers, out of whom 9,707 passed. The number of takers is the fewest since December 2004, when there were 12,100 exam takers. The passing

If you take all the NLE (Nurse Licensure Exams) data from 2000 to 2008 (click here for data), you will find out that there had been 224,977 registered nurses for that 8 year-period. Where have these RN's all gone? They couldn't have been all employed by the Philippines' medical clinics or hospitals. Among the more than 2,300 hospitals in the Philippines, there couldn't be a need for that hundred-thousand nurses. So, where are they? No one know for sure. Most of them could

The results are out for the country's board exam for nurses, and it looks like the exams has one of the highest passing rates in many years. Officially known as NLE (Nurse Licensure Examination), the November 2014 exams had 15,292 passers, out of 26,690 takes, or a passing rate of 57.3%. The NLE with the highest passing rate was in November 1998, when the passing rate was 57.5% (4,724 passers, out of 8,209). For details, please refer here. The NLE is administered by the PRC (

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced that there were 11, 255 passers in the most recently held Nurse Licensure Examination (NLE) conducted in 11 cities around the country in May 2014. There were 29,188 takers in that last Nursing board exams, which means a passing rate of 38.5%, one of the lowest passing rates in the last 18 years of the NLE. Still the "Most Difficult" NLE exam was in December 2013, which had a passing rate of 30.9%. #nle #prc #FilipinoNurse

The Philippines' RN (registered nurses) still comprise the biggest number of NCLEX (National Council Licensure Examination) takers among nurses educated outside of the U.S. For the first 9 months of 2013, there were 2,952 Filipinos who took the exams, out of a total of 5,804 takers. That means that half of the total takers are from the Philippines. The other RN's come from India, Canada, South Korea and Puerto Rico. In the past 7 years of the NCLEX exams, the Filipino RN's we

The Philippines' NLE (Nurse Licensure Examination) in June 2013 had 16,908 passers, the lowest since the NLE of June 2006, when there were 17,821 passers. The June 2013 NLE also had the fewest number of takers in the last 7 years, registering only 37,887, versus the 40,147 takers during the December 2006 NLE. The decrease could be attributed to the reduced number of students taking up the nursing course, beginning in 2009. The 43% passing rate (16,219 vs. 37,887) in the Decem

The number of nurses taking the NCLEX (National Council Licensure Examination) all over the world continues to plummet, registering a total of 13,673 takers for the entire year of 2012, versus 25,908 takers in the 2006. The most number of takers was in 2007, when there were 38,768 takers. The number of takers are detailed HERE. The NCLEX is a licensure examination of the U.S. for foreign educated nurses. For a foreign nurse to become a registered nurse in the U.S. she has to