The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) through Board of Nursing (BON) has

recently made changes to the classification of subjects included in the Philippine nursing board exam.
Professional Regulatory Board of Nursing issued Resolution No. 11, series of 2017 entitled “Re-
Classification of the Subjects Nursing Practice I and Nursing Practice II of the Philippine Nurse
Licensure Examination (PNLE)” signed by July 13, 2017.

Currently, the NLE is composed of the five 100-item subjects, as follows:

Nursing Practice I: Basic Foundation of Nursing and Professional Nursing Practice
Nursing Practice II: Community Health Nursing and Care of the Mother and Child
Nursing Practice III: Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations, Part A
Nursing Practice IV: Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations, Part B
Nursing Practice V: Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations, Part C

Based on the resolution, the BON reviewed the components of Nursing Practice II and noted
that “under the present PNLE framework, the scope and number of items allocated for Community
Health Nursing and Care of the Mother and Child are not adequate to determine the competence of
the beginning nurses in such component/areas of practice.”

After consulting stakeholders such as Association of Deans of Philippine Colleges of Nursing

(ADPCN), the BON resolved to make changes and reclassify the subjects of the NLE. Here are the
revisions:

1. The Nursing Practice I on Basic Foundation of Nursing and Professional Nursing Practice shall no
longer be treated as separate and independent component of PNLE, but instead will be subsumed or
integrated in all the PNLE examination subjects;
2. The Nursing Practice I shall be reclassified and renamed Community Health Nursing, and which
shall be assigned with relative weight of twenty percent (20%);
3. The Nursing Practice II shall be reclassified and renamed Care of Healthy/At Risk Mother and
Child, and which shall be assigned with relative weight of twenty percent (20%);

Classification and descriptions of Nursing Practice III, IV and V shall remain the same.

Nursing Practice I: Community Health Nursing

Nursing Practice II: Care of Healthy/At Risk Mother and Child
Nursing Practice III: Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations, Part A
Nursing Practice IV: Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations, Part B
Nursing Practice V: Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations, Part C