After two years of lobbying by the kerala government, India has finally been cleared as a testing centre for nurses going too the US. The US-based National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCS-BN) is likely to zero in on Kerala to hold the National Council Licencsure Examination (NCLEX) for registered nurses as the state government has been vigirously presenting Indias case.NCSBN is not-for-profit organisation,whose membership comprises the boards of nursing in the fifty states,the District of Columbia and five US territories namely, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands,Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
George Abraham, President of the Houston unit of the Non Resident Keralite Affairs Department(NORKA),said NCSBN had announced last week a list of new countries where the nursing test would be held. "The new testing sites will be located in Australia,India,Japan ,Mexico,Canada,Germany and Taiwan.In India, it is certain that kerala will be the testing centre,"Mr Abraham ,who has been lobbying Indias case,said.Outside the US, the NCLEX examinations are currently held only in London,Seoul and Hongkong.The testing centre is likely to e located in the officies of the Roots-Norka,which looks after the welfare of non-resident keralites.
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| Posted : 2/3/2006 |
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