Question & AnswerQ&A (PRC BOARD OF NURSING BOARD Resolution NO. 2009-20)
The Board of Nursing is empowered under Section 9, Paragraph (a) of Republic Act No. 9173 (The Philippine Nursing Act of 2002) to conduct the licensure examination for nurses.
It prescribed a dress code for examinees in the Nurses Licensure Examination.
Examinees who are not in the prescribed dress code will not be allowed to take the examination.
The amendment added 'School Uniform' as another form of attire allowed to be worn by examinees in the Nurses Licensure Examination alongside the clinical uniforms.
Female examinees may wear a clinical uniform with white shoes and white stockings but without nameplate, school insignia/logo, and pin, or they may wear their School Uniform.
Pregnant female examinees may wear a white clinical scrub suit.
Male examinees may wear a clinical uniform with white shoes and white socks but without nameplate, school insignia/logo, and pin, or the School Uniform.
Repeaters may wear a white clinical scrub suit.
It shall take effect after fifteen (15) days following its complete publication in the Official Gazette or in any newspaper of general circulation in the Philippines.
Copies are furnished to the Board of Nursing, Office of the Director for Licensure, Application Division, Examination Division, Rating Division, ICT Division, Secretariat, Supply and Property Division, Budget Division, Accounting Division, Legal Division, all PRC Regional Offices, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA), and the Presidents and Deans of schools, colleges, and universities offering the Nursing course.
To maintain uniformity and avoid identification that may compromise the integrity or fairness of the examination process.