at last my site hits 1000 visits

Whoa..It seems it's just only yesterday when my blog is just starting. I have very few entries then which also provides very few visitors [tsk..tsk..poor blog]. And now I really can't believe that I am celebrating its 1000 visits. I've been blogging for almost a year now, but I'm not been so active to it due to my busy schedule, but because of my 2009 new years resolution #3 which states that "be more active in blogging", slowly I am gaining more interest to it. Well as you can see, I am trying to write an entry at least once or twice a week, and not bad I was able to make 12 blog entries fro the month of April..wee..It's a sign that I should really exert more effort in my blogging career (char!, career jud?). I am also inspired by the visitors who came from different parts of the world who reads my entry. Wow, of course that is something nice, I didn't expect this much that my blog would go this far, considering that I am just only a rookie in world of blogging that's why I am very thankful to everyone who supported me, the visitors, the followers, the friends, the advertisers, my sponsors, who accepted my applications, thanks you so much for the trust, I promise that I will try all my very best to entertain everyone.

i've been in agusan

Last week I had a 3 day absent with my online ka-chorvahan it's just because I've been a bit busy with, again, my completion duty. And guess what, I am still lacking two OR cases..grr..I had my duty at D.O. Plaza Memorial Hospital at Brgy. Patin-ay, Prosperiad, Agusan del Sur. It was a three hour roller coaster ride (due to countless zigzag road) from our town which I really had a super to the max ever motion sickness going there. hahay!..We left Tagum at exactly 8 pm, riding a non-airconditioned, super ordinary bus which causes me so much stress, and thank God I only vomited once [and thanks to NCCC cellophane too! hehe]. We arrive in Agusan at around 11:30 pm, we stayed in Aries Dorm. The place was nice and peaceful. And the people of Agusan were nice ang friendly. I love the moment of waking up every morning seeing the simplicity of the whole Agusan, and enjoying the beauty of nature. [sigh] I really enjoyed my stay there, except for that roller coaster road you will encounter..hehe..can't wait to go back!..wee!

pacquiao won against hatton

Manny Pacquiao did another great fight in the "Battle of the East and West". On the first round of their fight, Hatton already drop but the fight still continues. Manny defeated Ricky Hatton in the second round with his left hook punch, making the Hitman in Total Knock Out. Even the fight is stopped only at 2:59, it was still a total entertainment. Of course, Filipinos from all over Philippines were very happy with Pacman's victory. Everyone from rich to poor celebrated his win against Hatton. Even Filipinos abroad didn't miss the chance to celebrate Pacmans's victory. It was one of the greatest fight of the year. I can't wait to watch again the fight of Manny Pacquiao with another great boxing champion Mayweather, wee..Go Manny go!., good luck for you're next fight!.

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Best and worst nursing schools bared
June 9, 2005

Rep. Joseph Santiago has released a list of the 20 best performing nursing schools in the country, with 80 to 99 percent of their graduates passing the annual licensure examinations from 1999 to 2003, and of the 20 worst performing schools, with only nine to 25 percent of their graduates making the grade over the same period.

"We are making this list available to the public so that parents may be guided accordingly. They can avoid sending their children to deficient schools whose graduates have at best 25 percent chance of passing the nursing licensure tests," Santiago said.

He said the list was culled from the records of the Professional Regulation Commission and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). The list is limited to nursing schools with over 100 examinees.

Santiago had earlier prodded CHED to grade all schools nationwide based on the performance of their graduates in professional licensure and eligibility tests, and to put out the ratings in the newspapers for all to see.

THE BEST AND THE WORST

Based on the list released by Santiago, the 20 best-performing nursing schools and the percent of their graduates passing the licensure tests were: The University of the Philippines-Manila, 99 percent; St. Paul College Iloilo and Silliman University, 98 percent; University of Santo Tomas, 97 percent; West Visayas State University, 96 percent; St. Louis University-Baguio and Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Manila, 95 percent; Southern Luzon Polytechnic College, 91 percent; Trinity College of QC and Cebu Doctors College, 89 percent; Mountain View College, 88 percent; Remedios Romualdez Memorial School-Manila and UE-Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center, 87 percent; St. Paul University-Tuguegarao, 84 percent; Velez College-Cebu, San Pedro College-Davao and Cebu State College, 82 percent; De La Salle University-Dasmari?as and University of La Salette-Santiago, 81 percent; and Romualdez Medical Foundation, 80 percent.

Listed as the 20 worst performing schools were Mapandi Memorial College, nine percent; M.V. Gallego Foundation Colleges, 15 percent; Galang Medical Center, 17 percent; Unciano Colleges, 18 percent; Good Samaritan Colleges, 19 percent; Lipa City Colleges, Immaculate Conception College-Albay, Mabini Colleges and St. Gabriel College-Kalibo, 20 percent; Notre Dame Jolo College and Philippine College of Health and Sciences, 21 percent; Golden Gate Colleges, Northern Christian College and Tecarro College Foundation, 22 percent; Dr. P. Ocampo Colleges, De Ocampo Colleges and World Citi Colleges-QC, 23 percent; San Pablo Colleges and Medina College, 24 percent.

Santiago said a total of 55,744 nursing school graduates took licensure tests from 1999-2003. Only 27,345 of them, or 49 percent, passed the tests.

MEDIUM-SIZED SCHOOLS RATING

Santiago has also bared a new list of some of the country’s highest and lowest rated nursing schools, this time focusing on medium-sized institutions.

The new list enumerated the 20 highest rated medium-sized nursing schools, with 61 to 98 percent of their graduates passing the annual licensure examinations from 1999 to 2003, as well as 20 lowest rated schools, with zero to just 31 percent of their graduates making the grade over the same period under review.

The fresh list, based on records of the PRC and the CHED, covers nursing schools with less than 100 examinees. The previous list covered nursing schools with over 100 examinees.

The 20 highest rated medium-sized nursing schools and the percent of their graduates passing the licensure tests are: Mindanao State University-Marawi City, 98 percent; Mary Johnston College-NCR, 96 percent; St. Paul College-Dumaguete City and Philippine Christian University-Manila, 95 percent; Xavier University Cagayan de Oro City, 94 percent; St. Dominic Savio College-Central Luzon, 93 percent; University of the Philippines-Leyte, 92 percent; St. Mary’s University-Bayombong, 89 percent; St. Dominic Savio College-Manila and Dr. Gloria Lacson Colleges-Central Luzon, 88 percent; Sacred Heart College-Lucena City City, 83 percent; St. Mary’s College-Tagum, 74 percent; University of St. La Salle-Western Visayas, 71 percent; Philippine Women’s University-Manila, 69 percent; Concordia College-Manila, 68 percent; Mindanao Sanitarium and Hospital College of Medical Arts-Soccksargen, 67 percent; Holy Trinity College-Puerto Princesa City, 64 percent; Baliuag Colleges, 63 percent; Philippine Women’s University-Quezon City, 62 percent; and Surigao Education Center, 61 percent.

The 20 lowest rated medium-sized nursing schools are: Isabelo Calingasan Memorial Institute Southern Tagalog, 0 percent; Perpetual Help Paramedical School-Bicol, five percent; Lyceum of Northern Luzon-Ilocos, seven percent; Jamiatu Marawi Al-Islamia Foundation-Soccsksargen, eight percent; Immaculate Conception College-Manila, nine percent; Urdaneta College of Technology and Perpetual Help College-Pangasinan, 17 percent; Our Lady of Lourdes College Foundation-Bicol, 19 percent; Pamantasan ng Araullo-Central Luzon, 20 percent; Medina College-Pagadian City, 21 percent; Carthel Science Educational Foundation-Central Luzon, 24 percent; St. Luke’s College Foundation-Central Luzon, 25 percent; Pangasinan College of Science and Technology, 26 percent; Southern Bicol Colleges, 27 percent; University of Batangas, 28 percent; Laguna Northwestern College, 29 percent; Bacarra Medical Center-Ilocos and Abra Valley College, 30 percent; and J.P. Sioson Colleges-NCR and St. Paul College Foundation-Cebu, 31 percent.




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choose nursing!

June is fast approaching and again it's back to school. Maybe many of those who graduated from high school is already deciding what to take up for their college degree. Well, even me after graduating high school also had difficulty choosing one. When suddenly it strucked in my head to take up nursing which I never regreted and still loving it until now..wee luv to be a nurse..i mean student nurse. I find nursing as one of those cool prefessions worth to be in, what makes it cool is that, it's not only all about paper works and computations, though it is still part of nursing life (e.g. Case Presentaiotn & IVF Computation), but it focuses more about on caring for people, taking care of the sick and everything that is helping. I have found a very cool nursing recruitment video at Youtube from Johnson and Johsnson health channel entitled "Dare to Care". Watch it for you to atleast get an idea what nursing really is and what it is all about. I really love the ad and it was very enlighthing, very cute, inspiring, and so lovely. The moment I saw it, I feel very proud to be one of them, even I'm just only a student..at least!..duh..Though I admit that nursing is very exhausting and challenging (in other word cancer-causing..joke!) but it's all worth taking it. Watch the video above and we don't know, maybe in the near future, you'll be the next to proudly say "I'm a Nurse!".

Beverley Allitt: The Angel of Death

Nurses are well known to be the "angels in the sick room" but not for Beverley Allitt tagged as the Angel of Death, known to be one of Britain's most notorious serial killer in ealry 1990s, for killing 4 children and injuring 5 others. Due to scarcity of nurses during her time and despite of her poor academic performance she had been granted a temporary six-month position at the understaffed hospital. She worked at the Children's Ward 4 at England's Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in Lincolnshire as an State Enrolled Nurse (SEN) in 1991. Acting as a caring nurse as she attempted to murder her young victims by injecting and overdosing potassium and insulin to the patients in order to have arrest. Among the victims who died due to Allitt's violence includes Liam Taylor, Timothy Hardwick, Becky Phillips and Claire Peck. During the examination of the body of one of the victim, a discovery of Lignocaine found in its system, a drug used as a local anaesthetic and for patients with cardiac problems (eg. post MI, digitalis toxicity, post cardiac arrest). After a series of hearings, Allitt was charged with four counts of murder, 11 counts of attempted murder, and 11 counts of causing grievous bodily harm. Later on, Allit was found out to exhibited symptoms of both Munchausen’s syndrome, a mental disorder in which a person feign disease, illness, or psychological trauma in order to draw attention or sympathy to themselves and Munchausen’s syndrome by Proxy, which injury is deliberately and gradually inflicted upon another person usually for gaining attention or some other benefit. Both disorders are characterized by gaining attention through illness. In 2006, Allitt launched an appeal on the length of her sentence, this is a review of her sentence which led the Probation Service to contact victims' families about the process but the review remains pending.

Allitt inside the Police van

i can vote now!

Politicians are so busy having their ads on tv now, seems like an early campaign, and it calls for...what else? an early voter's registration (early daw?, late na gani), why not!?. My whole week has been so busy, completion here, registration there. I took a lot of time just to have my voter's registration done, since I am plannig to use the ID for opening new bank account or to be used as PRC requirement for the incoming NLE. Registering takes only a short time, but it takes days for me to get one. What really took me so long it's because of that Purok Clearance thing, I really had a hard time getting one because everytime I go to the Purok Chairman she's always not present (though i am not blaming her, of course she has also her life to manage), so I always wait, first attemp, she was on shopping for groceries, then second she was on the dentist for tooth repair and on third at last she was there and I was able to get one, what a journey huh?!. And just this afternoon I finished registering, I went to COMELEC fill-up the form, pose in front of the camera (pose jud as in), signed and all, then end, that's it!. Though I don't still have the Voter's ID right now because it is still on process but at least I have the stub and I can claim it anytime.

So, when registering all you have to do is go to the COMELEC (Commission on Election) office just bring black ballpen, purok clearance or if none because you're living in an exclusive subdivsion or somewhere and there's no purok there, just present 2 valid ID's, bring also photocopy of your birth certificate or marraige contract, and YOURSELF. So this coming May 2010 election i'm ready to vote na. wee. Register now 'cause your vote counts!

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