Ruling

[Audio] Did the Court of Appeals commit reversible error when it cleared respondent of any liability arising from her submission and use of a spurious NLE rating and PRC Identification Card and from falsely declaring in her various Personal Data Sheets that she was a registered nurse during the relevant years in question? Falsification of documents entails grave misconduct the respondent is practicing. The main issue is the respondent is practicing Nursing that handles lives of her patients in her care in years 1989 until she passed the Nursing Licensure Examination in year 2009. Based on the facts, she falsified her documents such as Personal Data Sheets and Professional Regulation Commission Identification Card in years 1989 until year 2000 and she never complied and submitted the updated documents to their Human Resource Office. In those years, she believed that her status from exam results was deferred and only asked to comply documents with a processing fee as instructed from the Professional Regulation Commission Office and not knowing that the Identification Card issued to her was fake. In the perspective of the Court of Appeals, The Court of Appeals incipiently ruled that the charges against respondent were not mooted. When she re-entered the government in 2013, she placed herself within the jurisdiction of the CSC and the courts for the purpose of determining her fitness to continue in the public service despite her prior resignation from the government service on July 31, 2002. The Court of Appeals, nonetheless, absolved respondent from any administrative liability. It accorded her the benefit of good faith when she resigned from the provincial hospital and admitted that the PRC Identification Card borne in her Personal Data Sheets for the years 1989 to 2000 was fake. It also found that she demonstrated remorse about the entire incident.