ORIENTATION FOR HAAD EXAMINATION

ORIENTATION FOR HAAD EXAMINATION

INTERESTED APPLICANTS WHO ARE INTERESTED TP TAKE THE HAAD EXAM AND WORK ABROAD IN UAE

DATE: AUGUST 24, 2012

VENUE: EL CIELITO HOTEL, BAGUIO CITY

CONTACT NUMBER: 09092078318/ 09174952165

AMERICAN MANPOWER SERVICES, INC.

CONGRATULATION JULY 2012 PNLE TOPNOTCHERS AND PASSERS

CONGRATULATIONS to our JULY 2012 PNLE TOPNOTCHERS!

TOP6: Ainan Rey Casupang (84.60%, Ateneo De Naga University)

TOP10: Billie Jane Diawan (83.80%, Saint Louis University) 

& our TOP PERFORMING SCHOOLS w/ 100% Passing Rates (Shieldreviewcenter Baguio Branch students):


*Benguet State University *Saint Louis University
*STI-College Baguio *Philippine College of Science & Technology
*Saint Mary's University *College of the Immaculate Conception
*Bataan Peninsula State University *Trinity University of Asia
*Philippine Rehabilitation Institute


TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!

SEMINAR

THE PROGRAM

PERCEIVED COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES OF SHIELD REVIEW CENTER REVIEW PROGRAM

1.      The program includes a holistic package equipping students with pertinent knowledge covering all domains of learning. Personal knowledge, critical thinking assessment and monitoring of the students are continually done during the course of the review.

STRATEGIES:

A.     Diagnostic examination – 2-days exam for 500-items questions covering 10 major areas of nursing. This is given to the students prior to the actual review in order to assess areas of strengths and weaknesses. Information gathered from the said exam will be used as basis for any modification of the current review program. Such action will ensure that the program will run smoothly and effectively as this is being done to suit the students’ needs.

Mechanics:

1.     Content of the exam is 50- items questions for every concept namely: Fundamentals of nursing, Professional Adjustment, Leadership Management and Research (PALMR), Community Nursing, IMCI/COPAR, Communicable disease, Obstetric, Pediatric, Medical Surgical 1, Medical Surgical 2 and Psychiatric Nursing.

2.     Utilization of specialized answer sheet checked by optical scanner (scantron machine) for the 5 sets of exam patterned as Nursing Practice 1- 5 respectively, thus giving them a sense of what an actual board exam is.

3.     Results will be provided 2 days after rationalization with graph and analysis of performance per individual and the performance graph as a whole class.

4.     Results will be presented to the administration and this will serve as the basis for the design of the Intensive Review program. Syllabus and schedule for the review will be decided through collaboration of the school and review center. The effectiveness of such will then be evaluated on another major exam, which is the Validation Exam.

5.     Consultations with the students will be done using the individualized diagnostic graphs as a basis for analysis of their standing. Result will be explained to them and at the same time, suggestions for the review and counseling will also be performed.

B.     Validation Exam - same with the features of diagnostic exam but with greater difficulty. Questions given would be taken from the topics encountered during the intensive review.

     Mechanics:

1.     Same as the mechanics 1-4 of Diagnostic exam.

2.     Results will be presented to the administration as basis for the critical and crash review. Syllabus and schedule for the review will be both the collaboration of the school and review center.

3.     Counseling will be done with the students who attained below the passing rate grade or performance.

C.     Pre board examination - This is patterned to the actual board examination.  Questions to be given will come from topics that are predicted to be asked in the actual board exam as researched by Shield Review Center special team of researchers.

Mechanics:

1.          Administered after crash/ final coaching review, which will fall after the final examination for the second semester and last week of July for the regular review.

2.          Consultations/ counseling/ tutorials will be given to students accordingly.

D.    Strict monitoring of the students’ attendance and performance.

Mechanics:

a.       All students will be subjected to optional TUTORIALS. Two hours (2) tutorial sessions on board sensitive topics adjusted on the needs of the school.

b.      Schedule of tutorials will be adjusted according to the needs of the students based on their performance not only in the major examinations but also in the post-tests in each subject that will be discussed.

c.       Students who will perform low in these examinations as well as those who have committed absences or have missed topics will be REQUIRED to attend the scheduled tutorials.

d.      Students with low scores on a subject will be addressed and clarified immediately via FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS (FGD)

e.      Daily attendance is monitored strictly. Absent students are tracked via SMS or call. Unnecessary and excessive absences warrant the center to call the attention of student’s guardian.

f.        Late comers will be asked to stay after the review hours in order to catch up and make up for whatever topics missed due to being late.

2.      Programs are based on a well – researched curriculum that would best help students achieve the competencies prescribed by the BON.

Strategies:

a.      TRED Department (Training, Research, Education) is the lead administrative department of Shield in-charge of formulating, implementing and evaluating measures related to quality assurance. It is responsible for making sure that the Shield review program is aligned to the PRC-BON scope of nursing as well as the BSN curriculum thus giving the students the best possible weapon in facing the board exam.

b.     Anatomy and Physiology/ Nursing Pharmacology/ Nursing Informatics/ Entrepreneurship/ Nursing HEALS/ IMCI/COPAR/BEMOC/CEMOC/ Gerontology / OR/ ER/ disaster and First Aid as separate concepts.

3.      Shield provides the students with a comprehensive discussion of the different concepts, principles, skills and attitudes needed not just to pass the board exam but also for the effective practice of nursing locally and globally.

Strategies:

a.      Each topic in Nursing will be discussed by lecturers according to their specialization only, that is, in-demand national top calibre reviewers  who have gained significant amount of knowledge and experience in that particular field or topic thus ensuring an in-depth, up-to-date and accurate discussion.

     Mechanics:

a.      Our simplified lectures emphasize on “must-know” nursing concepts needed to pass the board exam.

b.     These interesting, exciting and lively discussions and lectures are delivered by highly competitive and top-notch professors with theoretical knowledge and clinical experience.

c.      Our more than 25 reviewers are equipped with techniques on their subjects like pharmacology drug songs, MS dance step, Little Miss Infancy, Vagina Monologue etc.

4.      More number of hours on lectures/ tutorials and testmanship and critical thinking.

Strategies:

a.      Utilizing the review hours efficiently, to abide strictly to no unnecessary cancellation of classes and not allowing late reviewers.

b.     8,500 ++ questions on previous and  target board exams

c.      Book drills incorporated on test questions, questions are from Kozier, Brunner, Lippincott, Videbeck.

5.      Christ centered learning institution.

Strategies:

a.      Mass before and after the review.

b.     Faith booster during the whole duration of review.

c.      Evangelism of reviewers inserted during their lectures.

6.      Updated technology.

Strategies:

a.        Scantron drills – error analysis to ensure knowledge turned into points in the board examinations.

b.        Use of LCD and audio visual materials to facilitate learning.

c.         Excellent sound system.

7.      Shield values true partnership and collaboration

The goal of molding students to become the best test taker they can be can best be achieved through team work. One approach is to facilitate Faculty Development activities such as seminar to ensure that knowledge and skills will be further enhanced to their advantage as well as to their students.

Such faculty development activity will be planned and scheduled according to the needs of the school and the capabilities of the review center.

8.      Competent staff and conducive environment

Another vital force needed to make learning effective is to make the environment as comfortable as possible. Shield always make it a point that the review hall is always conducive for learning by following and applying principles as described by Nightingale in her Environmental theory (i.e. adequate lighting and ventilation).

More than that, it has always been the goal of Shield to provide a warm and caring environment for the students where they can express and develop their potentials in the best possible way they can. An attitude of being strict but reasonable, warm but objective is what Shield tries to apply to all of the students.

The REVIEW SCHEDULE for Regular Review

INTENSIVE COGNITIVE/ COMPREHENSIVE PHASE

Includes full-length lectures, Individual Monitoring thru Assessment:

Diagnostic Exams/Post Test in each subject

Validation Examinations on all core subjects

SUBJECTS	No. of Hours
Diagnostic Examination and rationalization/ Goal setting/ Core Competency Orientation	32
Fundamentals of Nursing (Additional Concepts: Nursing Informatics & Basic Nursing Skills)	18
Pediatric Nursing	18
Obstetric Nursing	18
Community Health Nursing	12
Medical Surgical Nursing	60
Prof. Ad/ Leadership, Management, Research (Bioethics)	24
Communicable Diseases	18
Psychiatric Nursing	24
Focus Group Discussions	18
Post validation Exams/ Rationalization	30
Total	274

SPECIAL SUBJECTS	No. of Hours
Anatomy and Physiology	8
Nursing Pharmacology	8
IMCI/ COPAR/ NARS/Nursing Heals/ ENTREPRENEURS	16
Nutrition / Geria	8
Total	56

CRITICAL MENTAL ENHANCER

(Subjected to revision based on the Validation Exam results in collaboration with the nursing department)

Includes mostly practice tests with the nursing concepts, past board examinations test taking and rationalizations, bullets of the must-knows in the NLE and motivational talks.

After each lecture, the coordinator will provide each student a paper to fill up and determine concepts vaguely discussed. The bottom 10 students in each subject will be invited for a 2-hour focus group discussion to strengthen the concepts and improve it with the best-invited lecturers.

SUBJECTS	No. of Hours
Fundamentals of Nursing	16
Pediatric Nursing	16
Obstetric Nursing	16
Community Health Nursing	16
Medical Surgical Nursing	40
Prof.Adj./Leadership & Mgt./Research	24
Communicable Diseases Nursing	16
Psychiatric Nursing	16
Pharmacology	8
Previous Board Exams/Ratio	80
Drills on Nursing Books	16
Total	264

CLOSED DOOR FINAL BRIEFING

Aside from the practice tests, the students are also given Pre-board Simulation Examination.  The tests are given at the middle of the program and towards the end of the program. The Pre-board exam serves as mock board exam for the students. The rationale for the choices and correct answers for the Pre-Board Exam follows.  A final coaching, where pertinent information about the NLE, final instructions on test taking and evaluation of their performance during the course of the program  are given to the students at the last session

SUBJECTS	No. of Hours
Mock Board Examinations	16
Rationalization	16
Mass Offering	4
Total No. of Hrs. offering	36

630 Review Hours + 88 tutorials hours and Focus Group Discussion

            OVERALL PROGRAM = 624 HOURS