By Cyrus A. Natividad

CPU BSN Class 2022 (batch Hiraya).

The Central Philippine University College of Nursing, the first nursing school in the Philippines, was ranked 9th among the Top Performing Schools in the November 2022 Philippine Nurse Licensure Examination (NLE) as announced by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) twelve days after the last day of exam.

CPU has a 98.46% passing percentage (256 out of 260 total number of examinees passed the exam); with a 100% passing rate for Batch 2022 Class Hiraya (250/250 passers). The CPU College of Nursing has the highest number of passers among the top-performing schools in Region 6. There were 18,529 passers out of 24,903 takers all over the Philippines. The NLE was conducted from November 12 to 13 across different venues nationwide

OIC Dean College of Nursing, Prof. Melba C. Sale said, “To CPU BSN Class 2022: Congratulations from your College of Nursing family. We are so proud of you. Through your hard work, courage, and prayers, you have received the “Hiraya” you have been waiting for, the 100% passing rate in the PNLE November 2022. May God bless you as you march forward to the next journey of a lifetime commitment of service as competent, compassionate and caring Centralian Nurses.”

The schools performance is monitored as per Republic Act 8981- known as the PRC Modernization Act of 2000 “to monitor the performance of schools in Licensure Examinations.”