Dagupan school’s nursing course never ordered phased out

A Dagupan City-based school, the University of Luzon, clarified that its nursing course was never ordered phased out by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) due to poor performance in nursing licensure exams.

In a letter to Dr. William Medrano, CHED executive director, Dr. Mac Arthur Samson, president of the said school, stressed that graduates of the university’s College of Nursing had even performed excellently in nursing licensure exams.

“Your confirmation to the effect that it is the College of Nursing of our school, the University of Luzon, which was ordered closed due to poor performance of our graduates in nursing licensure examinations is a blatant distortion of truth. Our College of Nursing never received a phase-out order from CHED,” Samson said.

Samson said that the University of Luzon’s College of Nursing has an “excellent track record in licensure examinations.”

“In fact, it obtained 100 percent passing percentage for 16 times, an enviable feat which can hardly be duplicated by any nursing schools in Region 1,” he said. 

“Very recently, in the June 2007 Licensure Exams for Nurses, one of our graduates obtained the fifth place,” Samson added.

“Three Pangasinan-based nursing schools were identified in the past as ‘low performing’ but UL was not one of them,” Samson recalled.