Board Topnotcher to Nurses: Passion to Serve is a Must

07/26/08
By Izah Morales
INQUIRER.net

“WHEN you decide to become a nurse, there should be a passion to serve and to care,” said Aira Therese Salamanca Javier of the University of Santo Tamos (UST), who topped the recent Board of Nursing exams of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) with a rating of 86 percent.

She said that going abroad should not be the primary motivation to pursue a career in nursing.

Asked to comment on the controversial leakage of the nursing board exams in the past, she stressed that nurses should always stand for integrity and honesty because they’re dealing with people’s lives.

Javier topped the board exams out of 64,459 students who took it. She was a UST scholar for four years.