VMUF tops nursing education performance rate
SAN CARLOS CITY – The Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation (VMUF) has reasserted its “supremacy in nursing education” when it topped among nursing schools in Pangasinan and ranked third in the entire Region 1 based on the Commission on Higher Education’s (CHED) performance rates of nursing schools in licensure examination released recently.
The CHED, in cooperation with the Educational Statistics Task Force of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), released the performance of nursing schools in percentage of passing in the Licensure Examinations for the past five years covering 2001 to 2005.
The VMUF ranked first among Pangasinan nursing schools with a rating of 45.95 percent; followed by the University of Pangasinan (Dagupan City), 40.02 percent; Perpetual Help College of Pangasinan (Malasiqui), 38.10 percent; University of Luzon (Dagupan City), 36.50; City College of Urdaneta (Urdaneta City), 34.91 percent; Lyceum Northwestern University (Dagupan City), 28.82 percent; and the Pangasinan Colleges of Science and Technology (Urdaneta City), 26.73 percent.
The VMUF-College of Nursing is the only school of nursing in Pangasinan with 2nd reaccredited Level II status by the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities-Commission on Accreditation (PACUCOA) and the only School of Nursing in Pangasinan with a tie-up with the University of Hawaii Nursing Department.
Dr. Ma. Lilia P. Juan, VMUF president, congratulated the University’s College of Nursing, headed by Dean Gloria P. Banaag for maintaining academic excellence and commended the latest batch of nurses for giving another feather to the VMUF cap.
With the high demand for nurses abroad, the college’s enrollment has increased tremendously with more than 50 sections last semester constituting 50 percent of the university’s total college population.
The school will also start offering Master of Arts in Nursing (MAN) next year.
The VMUF has been producing board topnotchers and placers and has been obtaining 100 percent passing average in the medical and paramedical examinations and also excelling in the field of academics, cultural and even in sports competitions.
The VMUF was founded by the late Doctors Martin and Rosalina Posadas. — NCC
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