BY BOY RYAN B. ZABAL
KALIBO, Aklan – Now critics are not only being answered, but proven wrong, of the latest achievements of the Aklan State University (ASU) and the provincial government’s joint venture.
Adding to its many firsts that were accomplished by the province, the ASU and the Provincial School of Nursing produced, in four years time, a board topnotcher and registered an 81.48 percent passing mark after 22 of its 27 nursing graduates passed the November 2009 board exams.
Vyklyn Jimeno Testa, cum laude graduate of Aklan State University School of Nursing and a resident of Barangay Cajilo, Makato, Aklan, placed 8th with 85.80 percent in the recent Nursing Board Licensure Examinations.
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) has announced on Sunday that 37,527 out of 94,462 or 39.73 percent passed the nursing board exams held in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Butuan, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, La Union, Legazpi, Lucena, Pagadian, Pampanga, Sulu, Tacloban, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga last November 2009.
Iligan City native Clarie Morales Bontol of Iligan Medical Center College, Inc. topped the examination with an 87.80 percent rating followed by Bryan Noel Cueto Asis of Lyceum of Batangas with 87.60 percent and Dickson Araza Laude of St. Scholastica's College of Health Sciences-Tacloban with 87.00 percent.
With less than 30 examinees, the ASU School of Nursing was among those first-time provincial nursing schools who performed well in the recent nursing board examinations.
In 2005, Aklan Governor Carlito Marquez entered into a joint venture with the Aklan State University for the Associate in Health Science Education and Bachelor of Science curricular courses for deserving nursing students in the province.
The joint venture was also cited by Marquez in his State of the Province Address (SOPA) this year as among the first provinces to engage with a university for the establishment of a nursing college.
Compared with other nursing schools in the province and Western Visayas, the nursing college offers an affordable education for the less fortunate students in the rural areas. This is in support of Marquez' popular slogan, "owa it ginagaid sa kapobrehan," and his legacy programs on health care services accessible to poor Aklanons.
The province through a government loan also funded the construction of the nursing school building in 2008 inside the compound of soon-to-be tertiary hospital, the Dr. Rafael S. Tumbokon Memorial Hospital.
The government-run provincial hospital serves as base hospital where more than 200 nursing faculty and students of ASU and other private nursing schools in Aklan are trained or have their related learning experiences (RLEs).
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