HISTORY OF NURSING

WORLD PERSPECTIVE

1. Intuitive Period GROUP 1

a. Pre-historic Early Christian Era
b. Nomads
c. Voodoo
d. Nursing as women’s work
e. Shaman
f. Trephining
g. Law of preservation
h. Rise in Civilization (Babylonians, Egyptians, Hebrew, China, India, Greece, Romans)
2. Apprentice Period GROUP 2
a. Military Religious Orders and their works
i. Knights of St. John of Jerusalem
ii. Teutonic Knights
iii. Knights of St. Lazarus
iv. Alexian Brothers
v. The Dark Period of Nursing
vi. Martin Luther
vii. Theodor Fliedner
viii. Florence Nightingale.
3. Educative Period GROUP 3
i. Nightingale Era
ii. Factors that Influenced Development of Nursing Education
iii. The concept of Florence Nightingale on Nursing School.
iv. Other Schools of Nursing
4. Contemporary Period GROUP 4
a. World War II
b. Development and Trends during this era.
c. Factors affecting nursing today.

LOCAL PERSPECTIVE

1. History of Nursing in the Philippines

a. Early Beliefs and Practices GROUP 5
i. Word doctors
ii. Evil spirits, witchcraft
b. Early care of the Sick
i. Herbicheros
 ii. Mangkukulam/Mangangaway
c. Early Hospitals
i. Hospital Real de Manila
ii. San Lazaro Hospital
iii. Hospital Indios
iv. Hospital de Aguas Santas
v. San Juan de Dios Hospital
d. Early Personages GROUP 6
i. Dona Hilaria de Aguinaldo
ii. Josephine Bracken
iii. Melchora Aquino
iv. Anastacia Giron Tupas
v. Cesaria Tan
vi. Socorro Sirilan
vii. Francisco Delgado
viii. Socorro Diaz
ix. Conchita Ruiz
x. Sor Ricarda Mendoza
xi. Loreto Tupaz
e. Early Nursing Schools
i. Iloilo Mission Hospital School of Nursing
ii. Mary Johnson School of Nursing
iii. St. Paul Hospital School of Nursing
iv. Philippine General Hospital )School of Nursing
v. St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing.
vi. University of Sto. Tomas College of Nursing
vii. Manila Central University College of Nursing
viii. University of the Philippines College of Nursing

Guidelines and Instructions:

1. This is a group activity. You will be grouped according to your Facilitator. 5-6 groups.
2. Upon receiving your group, you will be assigned a topic.
3. Creatively CRAFT a “booth/ exhibit wall” out of recyclable materials/ artistic materials that shall
DEPICT and represent your topic based from the above.
4. Each group will have a member assignment. Some will present the Creative Content of their
booth or wall and some will act as “Tourists” that shall tour around others group artworks. All
exhibits shall be completely rotated and toured to gather historical information. Each shall have
a maximum time of roaming around each exhibit.
 5. After the exhibit and tour, questions and exams based from each booth/ exhibit wall will be
conducted by the Facilitator.
6. Each booth/ exhibit walls shall be rated and graded, accordingly using rubrics.
7. After the session, materials used shall be neatly kept or disposed.

Enjoy, Good luck and God bless!

STEVE M. ESTEBAN RN, LPT, MSN, MAN

Facilitator