{"id":18195,"date":"2014-07-05T14:43:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T06:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=18195"},"modified":"2014-07-05T14:45:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T06:45:14","slug":"university-in-iloilo-maintains-spot-as-phs-top-nursing-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/05\/university-in-iloilo-maintains-spot-as-phs-top-nursing-school\/","title":{"rendered":"University in Iloilo maintains spot as PH\u2019s top nursing school"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18228\" style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/West_visayas_state_university_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18228\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/West_visayas_state_university_logo.png\" alt=\"West Visayas State University logo from Wikipedia\" width=\"191\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Visayas State University logo from Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Iloilo City, Iloilo \u2014 West Visayas State University (WVSU) in Iloilo City is still the Philippines\u2019 top-performing nursing school, according to the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).<\/p>\n<p>This is the second consecutive year that the university has maintained its number one rank, scoring a 100% passing rate for the May 2014 Nurse Licensure Examination (NLE).<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Nursing and PRC said that all of WVSU\u2019s 139 nursing graduates passed the NLE. Only 11,225 of the 29,188 examinees passed the NLE.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Mark Laurence Latumbo Caro, a nursing graduate from WVSU made it to the Top 10. Caro ranked seventh with a score of 84.40%.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Luis Sorolla Jr., WVSU president, said : \u201cIt brings pride and joy to the WVSU community. It reflects the university\u2019s endeavor to attain quality in education as well as the dedication and capability of faculty members of the College of Nursing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the third time that WVSU garnered a 100% passing rate; with the first time being in 2007, and the second time in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Other Visayan schools in the top 10 nursing schools are Cebu Normal University, Silliman University, Velez College, and St. Paul University Dumaguete.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Iloilo City, Iloilo \u2014 West Visayas State University (WVSU) in Iloilo City is still the Philippines\u2019 top-performing nursing school, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":18228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[6052,6453,6454],"class_list":["post-18195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-iloilo-city","tag-nursing-exams","tag-west-visayas-state-university","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}