FilBok! (Filipino Vocabulary)
Nakakapanghina!-- (expression) it is making me queasy!
Bagsak -- (noun) failed
And so the results of the 2009 Nursing Board Exams was released, and it seems that if there is anything that will need urgent medical attention, or should we say, sent immediately to the operatiing room and sent to ICU, it would be the results. FOr it was revealed that out of the 90,000 or so nursing student who took that exam, only more than 29,000 or so students passed them -- ROUGHLY MORE THAN 26 PERCENT!?!? This is ABSOLUTELY CATASTROPHIC, not only to the nursing students, but also to the nursing and medical schools, the country's Department of Health, and to the entire medical professional field! Nakakapanghina!
The big question that hangs around the unspeakable results of the PRC Nursing Board Exams is this -- What went wrong? Where did it all go wrong?
To the inquiring mind, the problem may be seen in a range of causes. One of them is the type of academic or professional formation of medical students -- this has implications to the type of educational curriculum medical schools are using. Indirectly from this may be the type of educators or professors the nursing students have -- since the professors, the instructors themselves are the ones who carry out the medical education curriculum, from theory to practice, so to speak.
Another cause may be seen in a broader scope -- and this may be expressed in the dying need for a thorough upgrading of the educational sector -- or at least in the tertiary level, so to speak, and for nursing and medical schools in particular. The results of the Nursing Board Exams should give the educational authorities concerned, with the wake-up call to respond, to the urgency for a thorough and long-lasting reforms, if not upgrading,of the educational formation of our medical or nursing students.
And now,medical schools are being given a period of 3 years to upgrade, if not improve their instruction, their educational formation of nursing students, in order to improve their academic and educational backgrounds. Of course (and sorry though if I were to say this, but this IS truth)the exam results will indeed point out as to what kind of school these students hail from.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Why Not Face It All From the Beginning? On Senator Villar and the C-5 Road Extension Project Contraversy
Filbok! (Filipino Vocabulary)
Sorry, but I have to include this complete sentence to help you understand the entire thing that I have posted:
"Kung wala talaga siyang ginagawang kabalbalan, bakit hindi niya harapin ito lahat?" -- (interrogative sentence) translation: "If he really is not doing any monkey business, why does he not face everything?"
This is the very base question that capers into the minds of evry Filipino who, in one way or the other, followed the seemingly ridiculous game of charades played by Senator Manny Villar and the rest of the Senators in that Hall, during the inquest about the C-5 road Extension Contraversy. And to be honest with you, Senator Villar proves to be a rather disagreeable player in this ridiculous game of charades -- or should we say hide and seek -- or he should hide until we all turn blue in the face?
Anyway, what all the people had observed though, for those who had attuned themselves to the course of Senator Villar's case -- is that of all the people who are involving themselves in this investigation, and eventually, the move to censure Senator Villar -- the infamous senator who hails from Tondo is the one conspicuously absent. Not even a hint of his face could be seen in that Senate Hall! Hmmm. Should this be in another situation and should this happen in a court of justice, this kind of boycotting attitude will earn him a "contempt of court".
The question that yabbers in the minds of Filipinos is that of simple thinking, simple logic really -- if Senator Villar is indeed innocent of the cases thrown at him, if he really has not done anything wrong, why does he not show up in the Senate throughout the course of the investigation in order to defend himself?
To me and to many others though, the comportment showed by Senator Villar raises alot of eyebrows, and alot of questions too.
It is quite funny to the point of being ridiculous on his part, that when he suddenly popped up in the Senate Hall and made his privilege speech, he stated that no one born in Tondo (the district in Manila from where he supposedly hails from)is a coward; that he is no coward, so to speak. Well, simple thinking again comes into place -- if he is indeed no coward, why did he not show himself right at the beginning or even at the middle of the inquest of his fellow Solons, to defend himself and his reputation? Why did he immediately stormed out of the Senate Hall after his little speech, without even giving his colleagues the chance to ask him anything?
If he thinks that giving any sense of attention to the cases being filed against him, and to the investigation being made over him, will prove to be a waste of time on his part -- consider then, that his absence during most of the inquest about the C-5 Road Extension project, is an even greater waste of time for the Senators and for the inquiring public -- the people of whom he is sworn into duty, and of which he owes them his answers, not to mention his position as Senator!
So simple thinking comes again here: if he claims that the case filed against him has been founded on naught, why does he not show himself for the inquest in order to defend his good name, now that his name is become a fastly growing household word,now that the Elections are nearing? Especially that he is aspiring to become President, Hmmm? :D
Sorry, but I have to include this complete sentence to help you understand the entire thing that I have posted:
"Kung wala talaga siyang ginagawang kabalbalan, bakit hindi niya harapin ito lahat?" -- (interrogative sentence) translation: "If he really is not doing any monkey business, why does he not face everything?"
This is the very base question that capers into the minds of evry Filipino who, in one way or the other, followed the seemingly ridiculous game of charades played by Senator Manny Villar and the rest of the Senators in that Hall, during the inquest about the C-5 road Extension Contraversy. And to be honest with you, Senator Villar proves to be a rather disagreeable player in this ridiculous game of charades -- or should we say hide and seek -- or he should hide until we all turn blue in the face?
Anyway, what all the people had observed though, for those who had attuned themselves to the course of Senator Villar's case -- is that of all the people who are involving themselves in this investigation, and eventually, the move to censure Senator Villar -- the infamous senator who hails from Tondo is the one conspicuously absent. Not even a hint of his face could be seen in that Senate Hall! Hmmm. Should this be in another situation and should this happen in a court of justice, this kind of boycotting attitude will earn him a "contempt of court".
The question that yabbers in the minds of Filipinos is that of simple thinking, simple logic really -- if Senator Villar is indeed innocent of the cases thrown at him, if he really has not done anything wrong, why does he not show up in the Senate throughout the course of the investigation in order to defend himself?
To me and to many others though, the comportment showed by Senator Villar raises alot of eyebrows, and alot of questions too.
It is quite funny to the point of being ridiculous on his part, that when he suddenly popped up in the Senate Hall and made his privilege speech, he stated that no one born in Tondo (the district in Manila from where he supposedly hails from)is a coward; that he is no coward, so to speak. Well, simple thinking again comes into place -- if he is indeed no coward, why did he not show himself right at the beginning or even at the middle of the inquest of his fellow Solons, to defend himself and his reputation? Why did he immediately stormed out of the Senate Hall after his little speech, without even giving his colleagues the chance to ask him anything?
If he thinks that giving any sense of attention to the cases being filed against him, and to the investigation being made over him, will prove to be a waste of time on his part -- consider then, that his absence during most of the inquest about the C-5 Road Extension project, is an even greater waste of time for the Senators and for the inquiring public -- the people of whom he is sworn into duty, and of which he owes them his answers, not to mention his position as Senator!
So simple thinking comes again here: if he claims that the case filed against him has been founded on naught, why does he not show himself for the inquest in order to defend his good name, now that his name is become a fastly growing household word,now that the Elections are nearing? Especially that he is aspiring to become President, Hmmm? :D
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