Nursing Schools: Sprouting Like Mushrooms

Everybody is well aware of the fad that is nursing. Parents are sending their children to enroll in a BSN course, increasing the demand for nursing schools who are more than happy to oblige. It’s about business too so it doesn’t come as a surprise that they are accommodating more students than they can handle and see new ones sprouting up like mushrooms.

But with the results of the recent board exams revealing that the passing percentage is only 43.38%, you’d better think twice on where you should be spending your four years in. Would you pick a well-known nursing school that has an excellent curriculum but with annual tuition that would cost you a limb? Or would you pick a cheaper alternative that just sprung out of nowhere?

I don’t think that it matters a lot on how much you’re paying for your nursing education. As long as the quality is more than enough to get you through the board exams and also through life as a professional, then what the heck, sign me up for that! Unfortunately, that isn’t the case here. There are more students, less qualified teachers and fewer tertiary hospitals to train the discipline.

The good news is, it’s not like the government isn’t doing anything about it. CHED (Commission on Higher Education) has been given the task to regulate and maintain the quality of nursing education. They are to evaluate nursing schools that have been doing poorly in the state board exams. Numerically speaking, that would be schools that have less than 30% passing percentage.

In the coming years, those passing percentages may change it’s direction and start to rise and the quality of nursing education may improve. There may still be hope for all those nursing students who are aspire to work across the seas and live better lives. We’ll see how it goes.

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