{"id":255579,"date":"2017-07-04T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=255579"},"modified":"2017-07-04T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T20:00:57","slug":"two-nmc-graduates-pass-nclex-rn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/two-nmc-graduates-pass-nclex-rn\/","title":{"rendered":"Two NMC graduates pass NCLEX-RN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-255579 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/two-nmc-graduates-pass-nclex-rn\/lovely-martin-lopez\/'>Lovely-Martin-Lopez<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-255584'>\n\t\t\t\tLopez\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/two-nmc-graduates-pass-nclex-rn\/mika-sablan\/'>Mika-Sablan-<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-255585'>\n\t\t\t\tSablan\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Two Northern Marianas College graduates from the Class of 2017 just passed the challenging National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses.<\/p>\n<p>Mika Sablan and Lovely Martin Lopez\u2014who both took the exams at different times\u2014have passed the NCLEX, joining the ranks of other NMC graduates who passed the difficult exam before them.<\/p>\n<p>The NCLEX-RN is the exam nursing graduates in the CNMI have to pass in order to be able to practice nursing. The exam tests the knowledge, skills, and abilities of nursing graduates in order to certify that they are equipped with the capability to apply entry level nursing practices correctly.<\/p>\n<p>NMC president Dr. Carmen Fernandez congratulated both Sablan and Lopez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe college community is extremely proud of Mika\u2019s and Lovely\u2019s achievement,\u201d said Fernandez. \u201cI have no doubt that both of them will become outstanding nurses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also want to recognize and thank the hard working faculty and staff of NMC\u2019s Nursing Department for their role in guiding and supporting all our students,\u201d Fernandez added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rosa Tudela, chairperson of NMC\u2019s Nursing Department, said, \u201cBoth students are very committed to the nursing profession and will make excellent medical professionals. The Nursing Department is proud of their achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said a lot of confidence, prayers, and studying made her pass the NCLEX.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI chose nursing as a profession because I know that no matter where life takes me, it will never leave me without an option for work,\u201d Sablan said.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez said her family\u2019s support, prayers from her church members and friends, and adequate preparation time were the factors that helped her pass the NCLEX.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NMC nursing program really helped prepare me for this exam,\u201d Lopez added. \u201cMy professors helped develop my nursing skills and equipped me with the essential knowledge and resources to tackle the difficult questions in the NCLEX.\u201d <strong>(NMC)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Northern Marianas College graduates from the Class of 2017 just passed the challenging National&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":255584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1089,69,15020,12766],"class_list":["post-255579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-nclex","tag-nmc","tag-nursing-department","tag-rosa-tudela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}