oe Omens penny fAfliguga Grids (hvapes _ i Republic of the Philippines )> Professional Regulation Commission ee Manila Professional Regulatory Board of Nursing Resolution No. 11. ‘Series of 2017 RE.CLASSIFICATION OF THE SUBJECTS NURSING PRACTICE | AND NURSING PRACTICE Il OF THE PHILIPPINE NURSE LICENSURE EXAMINATION (PNLE) WHEREAS, Section 9 (h) of Republic Act (R. A.) No. 8981, otherwise known as the PRC Modernization Act of 2000, grants to the Professional Regulatory Boards the power to prepare, adopt, and issue the syllabi, tables of specifications of the subjects for examinations, in consultation with the academe; determine and prepare the questions for the licensure examinations which shall be strictly within the scope of the syllabus or tables of specifications of the subjects for examination; WHEREAS, Section 9 of R. A. No. 9173, also known as the Philippine Nursing Act of 2002, grants to the Professional Regulatory Board of Nursing (Board) the power to ‘conduct the licensure examination for nurses; and to prescribe, adopt issue and promulgate guidelines, regulations, measures and decisions as may be necessary for the improvement of the nursing practice, advancement of the profession and for the pproper and full enforcement of said Act, subject to the review and approval by the ‘Commission: WHEREAS, Section 14 of the R. A. No. 9173 provides for the scope of the examination for the practice of nursing in the Philippines which shall be determined by the Board, taking into consideration the objectives of the nursing curriculum, the broad areas of nursing, and other related disciplines and competencies; WHEREAS, the following are the current classifications of the subjects for the PNLE, with each having one hundred (100) items and percentage weight of twenty percent (20%): Nursing Practice | - Basic Foundation of Nursing and Professional Nursing Practice Nursing Practice I! - Community Health Nursing and Care of the Mother and Child Nursing Practice Ill - Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations (Part A) Nursing Practice IV - Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations (Part B) Nursing Practice V_- Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations (Part C) WHEREAS, Nursing Practice | refers to the basic nursing concepts and skills, nursing process, communication, leadership and management, research. ethics and legal aspects of nursing, which component should be integrated in all examination subjects; °. 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MANILA PHILIPPINES, 1008 P.O, BOX 2038, MANILAUmm phn try AfCepecge Pius oo eowuucanion or me nevseD Test eauEnonKAno PHIUPPINE NURGES UCENSURE EXAMINATION PALE WHEREAS, the components of Nursing Practice Il are: (1) Community Health Nursing ‘which focuses on the care of normal and at risk families, care of population groups and care of the communities, and (2) Care of the Mother and Child which focuses on the care of the newbom infant, care of the normal child and those with common alterationsiilinesses, care of the client with sexuality, reproductive health and fertility problems, care of the normal pregnant woman going through the various stages of pregnancy and care of the pregnant woman with complications of pregnancy; WHEREAS, the curricular content of each of these two (2) components (Community Health Nursing and Care of the Mother and Child) are so broad and extensive that they ‘ought to be treated as separate and distinct componenvarea WHEREAS, under the present PNLE test framework, the scope and number of items allocated for Community Health Nursing and Care of the Mother and Child are not ‘adequate to determine the competence of beginning nurses in such components/areas of practice; WHEREAS, the Board initiated consultation with its stakeholders, including the members of the Association of Deans of Philippine Colleges of Nursing (ADPCN), to review the current classifications of the subjects of the PNLE, and to recommend the possible changes or revisions thereto for the consideration of the Commission; WHEREFORE, the Board RESOLVES, as it is hereby RESOLVED, to reclassify the examination subjects in the PNLE as follows: 1. The Nursing Practice | on Basic Foundation of Nursing and Professional Nursing Practice shall no longer be treated as a separate and independent component of the PNLE, but instead will be subsumed or integrated in all the PNLE examination subjects; 2. The Nursing Practice | shall be reclassified and renamed as Community Health Nursing, and which shall be assigned with a relative weight of ‘twenty percent (20%); 3. The Nursing Practice Il shall be reclassified and renamed as Care of Healthy/At Risk Mother and Child, and which shall be assigned with a relative weight of twonty percent (20%); REOLVED FURTHER, that the classification and descriptions of Nursing Practice Ill, IV and V shall be retained. The listing of the reclassified subjects of the PNLE is hereto attached as Annex A. ‘This Resolution and its Annex shall be applied starting the November 2017 PNLE and its succeeding schedules, ‘This Resolution and its Annex A shall take effect after fieen (15) days from publication in the Official Gazette or any newspaper of general circulation in the countryLet copies hereof be further furnished the U.P. Law Center, Philippine Nurses ‘Association (PNA) and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) fr information Done this 13thday of _July POT in fe ly of ari camith 2 Grhibhein Officer-in-Charge Of res > CORA A. ANONUEVO- GLORIA B. ARCOS: a aster ip nies ocknacn net nae Nexen Wihena enter Almac Zee ve he ATTY. LOVELIKA T. BAUTISTA, OIC, Office of the Secretary, PRBs Approved: ene f ‘TEOFILO S. PILANDO, JR. . ‘Chairman ANGELINE T. CHUA CHIACO ‘Commissioner ‘Commissionergan Home Alec” Poles ANNEX A PROFESSIONAL REGULATION COMMISSION PROFESSIONAL REGULATORY BOARD OF NURSING RE-CLASSIFICATION OF EXAMINATION SUBJECTS IN THE PNLE NFA [ Na a pa [ Ns Community Health Nursing Care of clients with Physiologic | Care of Clients with Physiologic | Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations | and Psychosocial Alterations | and Psychosocial Alterations (Part) (Part) Care of Healthy/At Risk ‘Mather and Child Peri [oom eS cal eac| asc | Family Population Group NPa- Np2- Np3- Npa- NPs. Community Health Nursing 100 items = 20% of the total no. of test items Care of Healthy/At Risk Mother and Child D $ 100 items = 20% ofthe total no. of tes items gq 5 Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations (Alteration in Oxygenation, Fluids and Electrolytes, Nutrition and Metabolism, Pain, Perioperative Care) 1100 items = 20% ofthe total no. of test items Cate of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations (Alterations in Fluids and Electrolyte balance and Acid-base Balances, Inflammatory and Immunologic Responses, Cellular Aberrations, Acute 4100 items = 20% of the total no. of test items loge Criss, Disaster and Emergency Stustions) Cate of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations ( Maladaptive behaviors, age related, alterations in thought and perception, depression, ‘mania and suicide, stress and anxiety, maladaptive personality patterns, substance abuse) 200 tems = 20% of the total no. of test items 1