Workforce Exception Program

Workforce Exception Program

Nursing schools, agencies or employers may register and administratively
pay for the NCLEX examination on behalf of the
candidate. This is considered a Workforce Exception. If your
registration is accompanied by such a payment, you will not use
the enclosed envelope to return your registration and payment.

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Directions for Completing the NCLEX® Examination Registration Form

Directions for Completing the NCLEX® Examination Registration Form


The registration scan form that is in the envelope enclosed with this Candidate Bulletin includes all of the questions that you must answer if you register via the internet, by mail or by telephone. If you submit your registration form by mail, your
registration form will be read by a computer and must be completed accurately to ensure timely and efficient processing.

You will be sent a confirmation indicating that your registration was received. Incomplete forms and forms received without the correct fee will be returned.

Page 1 of the Registration Form

For any of the three registration methods (internet, mail or
telephone) you will be asked to supply the following information.

Examination Fee

Please enter the number of your check or money order in the
boxes provided.

1. Examination for Which You Are Registering
Fill in the circle next to the NCLEX examination for which
you are registering, either Practical Nurse (NCLEX-PN® examination)
or Registered Nurse (NCLEX-RN® examination).

Once the registration has been submitted, candidates who want to change the type of examination requested or the board of nursing where licensure was requested must contact NCLEX Candidate Services and will be required to pay a $50 change fee.
Once a board of nursing declares you eligible to test, neither the board of nursing where licensure was requested nor the type of examination can be changed.

Your Name
2. Name
Enter your name exactly as it is printed on the picture identification that you will present at the test center.Do not change the spelling and do not change the order of
your names.

Print your last (family) name, first name, and your middle name in the spaces provided and completely fill in the corresponding circles. Print one letter clearly in each box. Leave blank spaces between each part of your name. If any of your
names are too long to fit in the boxes provided, print as much as will fit. If you have had a name change, and have been made eligible by your board of nursing, you must submit the name change to your board of nursing and request a new ATT
from the NCLEX Call Center. Do not call or write NCLEX Candidate Services with this information.

NOTE: The name on the ATT must match the name on
the identification you will present at the test center.

In the manual the sample entry is given in page 5 entry on an NCLEX
registration form.

Page 2 of the Registration Form

3. Mother’s Maiden Name
Print your mother’s maiden name and fill in the corresponding circles. Maiden name is the last (family) name your mother used at birth before marriage. Only the last name is needed,not the full name. Your registration will not be processed without this information. If you have questions please contact NCLEX Candidate Services at one of the numbers located on the inside front cover of this bulletin.

4. Your Date of Birth


Fill in the circle next to the month in which you were born.
Print the day and year in which you were born and completely
fill in the corresponding circles. For birth dates that are less
than 10, enter zero in the first “day” box (for example, if you
were born on April 2, 1966, you would fill in the circle next to
“April” and then enter 02 for the day and 1966 for the year).
Incomplete birth dates will delay processing.

5. U.S. Social Security Number
Print your United States Social Security number, if you have
one, and fill in the corresponding circles. This information is
optional but may be used by the board of nursing to link your
NCLEX® examination results to your application for licensure.
6. Ethnic Information
Indicate the appropriate ethnic information by filling in the
corresponding circle. This information is used for statistical
purposes only.
7. Sex
Indicate your sex by filling in the corresponding circle.
This information is used for statistical purposes only.
8. Telephone Number (Home/Mobile)
Print your home/mobile telephone number and fill in the
corresponding circles. This number will be used if it is
necessary to contact you about your registration.
9. Telephone Number (Work)
Print your work telephone number and fill in the
corresponding circles. This number will be used if it is
necessary to contact you about your registration.
10. E-Mail Address
If you have an e-mail address, print it in this space only if you
wish to receive all of your subsequent correspondence (confirmation
of registration, ATT and confirmation of examination
appointment) from Pearson VUE by e-mail ONLY. If you do
not provide an e-mail address, your correspondence from
Pearson VUE will arrive ONLY through U.S. mail.

Page 3 of the Registration Form
11. Your Maiden Name
Print your maiden name and fill in the corresponding circles.
Maiden name is the family name given to you at birth before
marriage.

12. Another Last Name You Have Used
Print any other last name you have used when registering for
the NCLEX examination or applying for licensure to a board
of nursing. Fill in the corresponding circles. The name you
enter must be the name you used immediately prior to the
name you currently use.
13. Last Date Other Name Was Used
Fill in the circle next to the month, and print and completely
fill in the corresponding circles of the year for the last date
that you used the name entered in number 12.
14. Primary Language
Fill in the circle next to the option that best describes your
language proficiency. This information is used for statistical
purposes only.
15. Education Program Code
Using the list of Education Program Codes beginning on page
20, enter the five-digit code of the program from which you
received your nursing education and fill in the corresponding
circles. If educated outside the U.S.*, use the international
education codes on page 41.


20a. U.S. Zip Code

If you live in the United States or its territories,
print your U.S. zip code and completely fill in the
corresponding circles.

20b. Country Code
Only if your mailing address is outside the United States and
its territories, use the International Country Code list on
page 19 to complete this item. Print the three-digit country
c ode and completely fill in the corresponding circles. There
is no country code for U.S. addresses.

20c. Foreign Postal Code
If you live outside the U.S., please print your international
postal code in this space. All testing at Pearson Professional
Centers is subject to U.S. government trade regulations and
restrictions regarding embargoed countries, some of which
are applicable to the provision of testing services in the U.S.
and its territories. You must supply an international postal
code when providing your address and make sure that such
reference is consistent with the address on your identification
that you present at the testing center.

Signature
Sign (do not print) in pencil or ink your full name and fill in the
date. Before you mail your registration form and examination
fee in the enclosed envelope, make sure that you have signed
your form and checked it for accuracy. Be sure that the proper
circles are filled in, that there are no stray marks and that your
form is complete and accurate.

Nursing Licensure Examinees who would fail the June 2007

This is good news for the nursing graduates who took the June 2007 exam.

Nursing licensure examinees who would not pass the June 2007 may still have the opportunity to practice their course through a scheme the Department of Labor and Employment has been trying to work out.

Labor Secretary Arturo Brion said only half of the 78,000 examinees, including the 12,000 retakers, were projected to pass the board licensure test.

DOLE is contemplating on a fall back position of issuing licenses as practical nurse to those who would fail the test.

“[We are anticipating] that many of them will do re-take so we think that one fall back position is to have them licensed as practical nurse. This is assuming that there are some that would not do the re-take," Brion said in an interview.

According to Brion he already proposed this measure to Senator Edgardo Angara and to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and to Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) and they all agreed to its viability.

“We will meet soon and discuss this," he added.

Licensing the nursing examinees who failed the board exam as practical nurse is a way of helping them achieve their dreams of finding employment opportunities abroad, Brion said.

“These will be a sunrise opportunity for them because they could still practice their course even though they failed the test," he noted.

Demands for practical nursing are similarly increasing especially in hospitals abroad, the labor chief noted.

Results of the June nursing board exam would be out “by the middle of August," Brion said.

The next licensure exam for nurses is scheduled in December.

The 12,000 retakers in June were those who wanted to seek employment in the United States following the decision of the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS) to deny work visas to the June 2006 examinees because of allegations of cheating that marked the testing process.

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US NCLEX to be administered in Manila

US agency to give nursing licensure tests in Manila

MANILA, Philippines -- The United States' National Council of State Boards of Nursing has announced that it will begin administering its licensure exams in Manila on August 23.

Scheduling for examination appointments will begin on Friday, according to a notice posted on the NCSBN website, www.ncsbn.org. The test will be administered by the Pearson Professional Center in Manila.

"The Manila site was chosen in February by the NCSBN Board of Directors because of the deep commitment shown by the Philippine government to ensuring a secure test center," NCSBN said.

"The placement of a test site in the Philippines will allow for greater customer service to nurses without compromising the goal of safeguarding the public health, safety and welfare of patients in the US.," it added.

NCSBN administers the National Council Licensure Exams (NCLEX) which Filipino nursing graduates must take and pass to be able to work in the United States. The Chicago-based council is an organization of the nursing boards of the 50 US states, the District of Columbia and the four US territories of Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

According to the NCSBN director of marketing and communications, Dawn Kappel, all international candidates are required to apply to the board of nursing in the state or territory where they wish to be licensed before registering for the NCLEX examination.
In practice, US hospitals recruit nurses in the Philippines through their own or third-party placement firms. The applicant is then sent to the United States but must take and pass the NCLEX to become a registered nurse.

Starting August, the nurses from Philippines do not have to take the US licensure examination to the nearest examination centers which are Hongkong and Guam.

This is the good news:
Taking and passing the NCLEX here gives the applicant an assurance that he or she will get the position he or she applied for in the United States.

NCLEX examination fee for all candidates is $200. Candidates who elect to take the NCLEX at an international site such as Manila must pay an additional $150 when they schedule their examination.

Intended for the purposes of domestic nurse licensure in US states and territories, all security policies and procedures currently used to administer the NCLEX examination domestically will be fully implemented in Manila, according to Kappel.

Offered abroad since January 2005, the current international sites for NCLEX examinations are in London; Hong Kong; Sydney; Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver in Canada, Frankfurt, Germany; Mumbai, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Chennai in India; Mexico City; Taipei, Taiwan; and Chiyoda-ku and Yokohama in Japan.

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Nursing Licensure exam in June 2007 will be released in August

The Professional Regulation Commission and Board of Nursing made this official declaration regarding the results of the Nursing Board Exam 2007.

“The release of the June 2007 nursing licensure examination results will be out by August 15 or 17 up to 31 at the Professional Regulation Commission office in Manila,” Marco Sto. Tomas of the BoN, which prepares and oversees the entire exam process, said.

He explained that the month’s delay is primarily due to the volume of examinees this year.

Some 78,000 nursing graduates took the June 10 and 11 exams, almost double the usual 40,000 examinees. Among them were some 13,000 passers of the June 2006 exam who retook tests 3 and 5 again on the recommendation of the United States Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS).



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What is NCLEX?

What is the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX)?
The NCLEX-RN examination is a Computerized Adaptive Test (CAT) designed to test knowledge, skills, and abilities essential to the safe and effective practice of nursing at the entry level.



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The American Nurses Association (ANA) and the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) today condemn the exploitation of Filipino Nurses

SILVER SPRING, Md., June 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

The American Nurses Association (ANA) and the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) today condemned the exploitation of immigrant RNs by unscrupulous U.S. employers and called for better enforcement of immigration laws.

They cited the case of 26 registered nurses from the Philippines who say they were brought to New York under false pretenses and denied the rights guaranteed by their employment contract. When the nurses resigned, they were sued by their former employer and accused of professional misconduct. On March 22, ten of the RNs were indicted in Suffolk County Supreme Court on charges of endangering their patients. Remarkably, the nurses' employment attorney was also indicted, for conspiracy; they all plead not guilty.

The nurses had been hired through a recruitment agency to work at specific nursing home facilities on Long Island. When they arrived in the U.S., they discovered they actually were working for another agency. Over a period of months, the nurses said, the agency refused to pay them according to the terms of their contracts. They also said they were not properly trained for their new jobs and were required to care for more patients than they believed was safe.

"This case may be just the tip of the iceberg. Nurses who come to the U.S. deserve to have their rights protected," said Tina Gerardi, RN, interim chief executive office of NYSNA. "Instead, these nurses were placed in the untenable position of being captive to an employer under conditions that did not allow them to provide safe patient care."

Gerardi said NYSNA became aware of the nurses' situation in May 2006 and assisted them in getting a hearing before the State Board for Nursing after the recruitment agency accused them of professional misconduct. "They couldn't get work because the issuance of their licenses was on hold pending investigation of an allegation of patient abandonment," Gerardi said. "Those charges were dismissed by the state board. We are greatly concerned these RNs are now being prosecuted for the same actions."

"The real patient endangerment lies in the deplorable conditions that led the nurses to leave. After exhausting all possibilities to resolve their concerns with the facility and the agency, the nurses left without providing two weeks notice. These brave nurses deserve the nursing community's full support because they refused to remain in a situation where patients were being denied the kind of care and staffing they deserved," said ANA President Rebecca M. Patton, RN, MSN, CNOR.

The nurses' plight has become a cause celebre in both the Philippines and the New York City Filipino community. The RNs are expected to participate in the New York Philippine Independence Day parade on June 3, where they will receive support from both the Filipino and nursing communities.

The ANA is the only full-service professional organization representing the interests of the nation's 2.9 million registered nurses through its 54 constituent member nurses associations. The ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the rights of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of

nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.