Manifested: Ilocos grad tops nursing exam, turns dream into reality

VIGAN CITY — “I can’t calm myself.” That was Dianne Tacazon Tolentino’s reaction after learning that she had topped the August-September 2026 Philippine Nurses Licensure Examination (PNLE)—a dream she had long held and now sees as manifested. The achievement brought pride to her home province of Ilocos Sur, as Tolentino, a magna cum laude graduate