Care giving graduates take national competency exam at PPTS

by Gideon C. Corgue

PAGADIAN CITY, November 14 (PIA) – 21 care giving graduates of Philippine Paramedical Technical School (PPTS) on Friday took the national competency assessment and certification exam conducted by the Technical Education Skills and Development Authority (TESDA) at PPTS here.

Clinical Instructor Raymund Pedrosa said the assessment is done by TESDA in the accredited assessment schools to measure assessee’s level of competency in the field of care giving.

“The graduates are required to take the National Competency (NC) II TESDA certification exam as a requirement to work in the country or abroad,” Pedrosa said.

Pedrosa said the NC II certificate is a major requirement for the care giving graduates who wish to work abroad or in our country. “It is a vital document that an agency or employer is looking from a caregiver as evidence to show that he or she is a competent health care provider,” Pedrosa added.

Pedrosa said, PPTS the only TESDA accredited assessment school in Zamboanga del Sur since 2008 has conducted several batches of assessment in care giving and health care services and has produced caregivers abroad.

The assessors composed of nursing department head Paulo Martin and instructress Mae Sunshine Sarmiento and TESDA representative Teresa Mendoza appraised the assessees skills that they’ve learned from their school by requiring them to take a written exam, perform basic life support and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and bed making.

Pedrosa said PPTS will accommodate not only their own graduates to take the exam but also those coming from other schools saying it is the only accredited assessment school in the province.

Further, PPTS will also accommodate students who wish to take an assessment exam for health care services (NC) II.

Those who wish to take the exam are required to submit the following:  assessment form, recent 2x2 r ID picture and P350.00 assessment fee, Pedrosa concluded.  (NBE/GCC/PIA9-Pagadian)