DAGUPAN CITY– A total of 773 nursing examinees out of 3,521, or 21.95 percent, from Pangasinan passed the December 2010 Nurses Licensure Examination.
In Baguio City, 1,423 examinees out of 4,472, or 31.82 percent, successfully hurdled the test. In La Union, 267 out of 1,140, or 23.42 percent, passed. In Vigan, 468 out of 1,595, or 29.34 percent, passed while in Cabanatuan, 354 out of 1,566, or 22.61 percent, passed.
Out of the total 84,287 examinees, 29,711, or 35.25 percent, passed the exams administered in 18 testing centers nationwide.
Director-In-Charge Evangeline Vergara advised the successful examinees to personally sign in the Roster of Registered Professionals and bring the following requirements: duly accomplished Oath Form or Panunumpa ng Propesyonal, 2011 Community Tax Certificate (Cedula), two (2) pieces passport-size pictures (colored with white background and name tag), one (1) piece 1”x1” picture (colored with white background and name tag), one (1) piece documentary stamp, original and photocopy of NSO Birth Certificate (original copy for presentation purposes only), and initial registration fee of P600 and annual registration fee of P450 for 2011-2014.
..Board passers from Dagupan will register on February 25 at PMS Bldg, PNA Office, AB Fernandez Avenue, Dagupan City. Those from Laoag City will do it on March 12 at the University of Northern Philippines. Those from Baguio City can start registering on February 25 at the PRC Baguio Regional Office. For San Fernando City, it will be on March 5 at the Lorma Colleges Gym.
The Professional Identification Card and Certificate of Regulation will be issued by the PRC central office within three to four months.
Village officials urge to exercise power with accountability
DAGUPAN CITY – “You can earn respect if you exercise your authority with responsibility and accountability without fear or favor.”
This was stressed by Mayor Benjamin S. Lim on the opening day of the Barangay Newly-Elected Officials (BNEO) Orientation Program sponsored by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) at the Pinkie’s Restaurant last Monday.
Lim encouraged all barangays officials to involve their constituents in finding the best solutions for their problems through consultation because the process of communication is very important.
“Never think that as head of your barangay, you already have the best solution because the best solutions sometimes come from the simplest member of your community,” he emphasized.
He added that “no city can be great without the barangay doing their part and no barangay can be great if the folks do not understand what things are all about.”
A term-based, integrated capacity development intervention for newly-elected barangay officials, BNEO is geared to enhance their competencies to attain the needed synergy to transform the barangay as champions of excellence in basic service delivery and bring the government closer to the people.
With the BNEO program, new barangay officials are expected to strengthen barangay partnerships and alliances with the civil society organizations and with other local governments and the national government agencies for efficient and effective barangay governance development.
The objectives of the program are anchored on the tenets of the Biyaheng Pinoy to facilitate the smooth transition of power and authority from the old to the incoming barangay officials; build partnerships and alliances with various stakeholders for local development; and enhance the skills of barangay officials and functionaries to enable them to perform their emerging roles as policy maker, program planner and provider of basic services to their constituency.
The BNEO program consists of four components: ensuring smooth transition, laying the foundation, citizenship building and component, and sharpening the saw. It will be implemented in partnership with the Liga ng mga Barangay, various local resource institutions, national government agencies and local government units, with the DILG serving as BNEO Program Manager.
REGARDING HENRY
By Henrylito D. Tacio
LOVE YOUR WORK
They all became Hollywood stars. But before they hit the big time, do you what they were doing?
Sylvester Stallone was a gym instructor and dorm bouncer at a girls’ boarding school in Switzerland . Warren Beatty was a dishwasher and cocktail-lounge pianist. Whoopi Goldberg applied makeup to corpses in mortuary. The Oscar-winning comedian said it was “great work,” because clients “never complained about how they looked.”
Aside from working as a coffin polisher, Sean Connery was also a milkman. Rod Stewart was a grave digger while Danny Glover was a social worker. Danny De Vito worked as a hairdresser in his sister’s beauty salon. Brad Pitt worked as a giant chicken in a fast-food chain.
All these Academy Award-winning performers worked as waiters: James Cagney, Peter Finch, Michael Caine, James Caan, Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Yves Montand, and Dustin Hoffman.
Unknown to many, Hoagy Carmichael was actually a lawyer before he became famous as a songwriter, whose works include “Stardust” and “ Georgia on My Mind.” Washington Irving, author of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, was a lawyer.
Best selling authors Henry Fielding (Tom Jones), Scott Turrow (Presumed Innocent) and Lew Wallace (Ben-Hur) were also lawyers – ditto for broadcast journalists Geraldo Rivera and Charlie Rose.
“The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them,” Robert Frost once said.
Are you one of those willing to work – no matter what kind of work given you? A recent graduate, a thoroughly modern youth, was asked if he was looking for work. He thought a moment, then replied, “Not necessarily, but I would like a job.”
Well, not everyone who seeks a job is looking for work. And there are those who want a promotion but are not willing to take more responsibility. As one of the famous lines of the movie, Spiderman, puts it: “With great power comes responsibility.”
We are not here on earth to play around. “Rest and play are the desserts of life,” Harold Mayfield commented. “Work is the meal. It is only a child who dreams of a diet of dessert alone.”
That is why we have to work. I was reminded of this story. A grain of rice came to the Lord God and said, “Lord of the world, since I have become the staple food of mankind, why couldn’t you have made me such that they could eat me the way I am? As it is, they must first harvest me, thresh me, then mill me, and finally cook me. Isn’t that all rally a waste of time?”
“No,” the Lord replied, “it is not a waste of time. On the contrary, I did it that way on purpose both for your own good and for the good of human beings.
“Let’s talk about you first. It wouldn’t be good for you to go around boasting that you give men life and strength, all by yourself. As it is, humans cannot just pick up grains of rice and eat them unless they first turn them into a meal. And to do that, they need fire and water and their hands. And so the rice meal does not depend on you alone; otherwise, you would go around proudly announcing that if it were not for you, no one would be fed.
“As far as people are concerned, it would not be good for them to find their meal all ready for them on the breakfast table. Instead, they have to be involved in producing it. They have to plow and sow, and harvest and mill the rice and then cook it. That does them good: it makes them feel they are dependent on me.”
Harry Levinson gives us a good explanation why we need to work. “For all of man’s ages-old preoccupation with work, no one has yet been able to come up with a very satisfactory definition of it,” he pointed out. “For work is a paradox, simultaneously a curse and a blessing. A man works when he is hungry; and it is equally obvious that he continues to work when he is well-fed, well-clothed, and well-housed. A man devotes nearly half of his waking hours to work. Some men make work out of play, and some make play out of work. But man cannot free himself from work nor, according to repeated studies, would he do so if he could.”
Now, if you find a work, be sure to love it and give your best. And find a job which you really like. It’s good that I have a work which I love – and that is writing. Yes, I like and want writing, too.
The poem of H.L. Neri comes in handy why you need to love your work. It goes something like this: “If you don’t like your work, you’ll need three times the energy: to force yourself to work, to resist the force, and finally to work.” That’s what happens if you don’t like the job you are doing.
What takes place when you love your work. Neri offers this explanation: “If you love your work, your desire to do it will be like a wind to propel your ship with much less fuel. If you like your work, you work no more – for work, when you like it, is work no longer but sheer enjoyment.”
Just like basketball players. They play and at the same time work. They are being paid to play. “If you enjoy your work, you’ll work and work without counting the hours,” Neri said. “And you’ll reap and enjoy more earnings as well.”
Work, work, work – and more work. “Thank God every morning that you have something to do, whether you like it or not,” Charles Kingsley reminded. “Being forced to work and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness, contentment, and a hundred other virtues the idle never know.”
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