Every country has their own version of Nursing Licensure Exam. Before any foreign nurse would be allowed to work as a registered nurse, they need to pass that certain exam. Among those countries that has been giving the most difficult exams are those non-English speaking countries. Foreign nurses need to undergo didactic studies of that country’s language as well as their culture.

Nursing graduates of 2010 will be taking the nursing board exam this year on a different month. The Philippine Regulations Commission (PRC) recently released a statement saying that the new schedule for the nursing board exam will happen on July 2010 and December 2010.

The change in the PRC Nursing Board Exam schedule is made possible through Commission Resolution No. 2009-537 that was approved on November 13, 2009.

The November 2009 Nursing Board Exam Results of the Philippines is scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2010. There is still no official date when the November 2009 Licensure Examination Results will come out, says the PRC.

This nursing board examination has recorded the most number of nursing graduates examinees for the past years. The Professional Regulation Commission board of Nursing says a total of 95,282 nursing graduates have taken the examination last November 29-30.

A total of 32,617 out of 77,901 passed the June 2009 Nurse Licensure Examination, the Professional Regulation announced Saturday.

Golda Manto Yap, a graduate of the Felipe R. Verallo Memorial Foundation, topped the exams, getting an average score of 86.80 percent.