OFW Guide - Filipino's guide to working and living overseas
  • Home
  • Latest Articles
  • OFW News
  • Career Guide
  • How To's
  • OFW Stories
  • OFW Products
  • Tools
  • Advertise

Advertise at OFWguide.com

For inquiries, please fill-out the form below:
  captcha

Currency Converter Tool


Converter
World
  • PH
  • >Middle East & Africa
  • >Americas
  • >Asia & the Pacific
  • >Europe
OFWguide.com
OFWGuide.com is a Filipino website for new OFWs and for Filipinos who want to migrate, find an overseas job or work abroad.
 Search OFWguide:  
Career Guide

Want to Work in Saudi Arabia as A Nurse? Take the Prometric Exam

  Jan 29, 2014

To be able to work as a nurse in Saudi Arabia,one must pass the Prometric Examination administered by the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCHS) for Filipinos and other foreign nurses.
 
Filipino nurses are encouraged to take the prometric exam because this is considered to be Saudi Arabia's way of "filtering" the most competent of all foreign nurses who wish to work in the Kingdom.
 
The prometric exam consists of 70 questions in multiple choice format. An examinee is required to finish the exam within two hours. In the Prometric website, nurses fall under the category nurse aide (nurse technicians and nurse specialists). 
 
The exam for nursing technicians and nurse specialists have different parts and are divided differently.

 

Nursing Technicians

 

 

Nurse Specialists

 

 

Nursing Fundamentals - 28.00%

 

Medical - 23.00%

 

Surgical - 20.00%

 

Pediatric -16.00%

 

Community - 13.00%

 

Assessment - 10%

 

Nursing Problem - 6%

 

Planning - 20%

 

Implementation - 50%

 

Evaluation - 14%

 
Nursing Technicians must past 45% while nurse specialists must passed 50% of the exam. Results of the exam are released right after the prometric examination. 
 
For Philippine examinees, prometric exams can be taken at the following test center locations:
 
Acess 2 Floor Ateneo Professional Schools, 
130 H. Dela Costa St., Salcedo Village, Makati City 
Telephone No.: (632) 892-0383 
(Prometric exam is given every Tuesdays to Fridays)
 
Tread, Inc., Suite 308, Centro Maximo D., 
Jakosalem St., Cebu City
Tel no. 032-2535514
(Prometric exam is given every Mondays to Thursdays)
 
  
Are you ready to take the prometric? Read on how nurses can apply and set an exam schedule for the prometric exam.

Keep visiting OFWGuide.com or subscribe to our daily news updates via email for the latest guides and tips for OFWs. Follow us on Twitter (@ofw_guide).

 

Want to see more job vacancies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? See the latest Saudi job openings now.

 

 

 

How to Articles
  • How OFWs can get NBI clearance abroad
  • How OFWs can avail the Enterprise Development and Loan
OFW Products
  • OFWs exemption on airport terminal fees to start March 2017
  • BOC delays OFWs balikbayan boxes tax exemption
OFW Guide
  • Most Popular
  • OFW Tools
  • OFW Directory
  • Currency Converter
  • OFW Forms
  • POEA Rules and Regulations
  • POEA Memorandum Circulars
  • Government
  • POEA
  • OWWA
  • Foreign Embassies
  • Related Sites
  • Latest Jobs Abroad
  • Local Part-Time Jobs
See More
See More
 
  • Home /
  • About Us /
  • Advertise /
  • RSS Feed /
  • Disclaimer /
  • Terms of use /

2011-2014, OFWGuide. All rights reserved. Created by Quantum X, Inc.