PHILIPPINE NURSING

HISTORY
BY: DOMINGO, IBUS, LAGUATAN, MOLINA, SAGUN
BSN 1C – GROUP 3
EARLY BELIEFS, PRACTICES AND CARE OF THE SICK

Mysticism and Superstitions

EARLY BELIEFS, PRACTICES AND CARE OF THE SICK

Belief in special gods of healing

EARLY BELIEFS, PRACTICES AND CARE OF THE SICK

“Mangkukulam”
Difficult childbirth were attributed to “nunos”
HEALTH CARE DURING
THE SPANISH REGIME
 religious orders exerted their efforts to care for the sick by building
hospitals in different parts of the Philippines
HEALTH CARE DURING THE SPANISH REGIME

Hospital Real de Manila (1577)

HEALTH CARE DURING THE SPANISH REGIME

San Lazaro Hospital (1578)

 HEALTH CARE DURING THE SPANISH REGIME
Hospital de Indios (1586) 
– established by the Franciscan Order; service
was in general supported by alms and
contributions from charitable persons.

Hospital de Aguas Santas (1590) 

– established in Laguna; near a medicinal
spring, founded by Brother J. Bautista of the
Franciscan Order.
HEALTH CARE DURING THE SPANISH REGIME

San Juan de Dios Hospital (1596)

PROMINENT PERSONAGES
INVOLVED DURING THE
PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION
 emergence of Filipina nurses brought about the development of
Philippines Red Cross
PROMINENT PERSONAGES INVOLVED DURING THE
PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION

Josephine Bracken
PROMINENT PERSONAGES INVOLVED DURING THE
PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION

Rosa Sevilla de Alvero

PROMINENT PERSONAGES INVOLVED DURING THE
PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION

Dona Hilaria de Aguinaldo

PROMINENT PERSONAGES INVOLVED DURING THE
PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION

Dona Maria Agoncillo de Aguinaldo

PROMINENT PERSONAGES INVOLVED DURING THE
PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION

Melchora Aquino - “Tandang Sora”

PROMINENT PERSONAGES INVOLVED DURING THE
PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION

Agueda Kahabagan
PROMINENT PERSONAGES INVOLVED DURING THE
PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION

Trinidad Tecson - “Ina ng Biak-na-Bato” 

 HOSPITALS AND
NURSING SCHOOLS
 training Filipino nurses that would be catering to the hospitals that
Americans established in the 20th century
 HOSPITALS AND NURSING SCHOOLS

Iloilo Mission Hospital School of Nursing (Iloilo City, 1906)

 HOSPITALS AND NURSING SCHOOLS

Saint Paul’s Hospital School of Nursing (Manila, 1907)

 HOSPITALS AND NURSING SCHOOLS

Philippine General Hospital School of Nursing (Manila, 1907)

 HOSPITALS AND NURSING SCHOOLS

St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing (Quezon City, 1907)

 HOSPITALS AND NURSING SCHOOLS

Mary Johnston Hospital and School of Nursing (Manila, 1907)

 START OF NURSING
PRACTICE
(1911 – 1921)
 Promulgation of Act No. 2493
 Board Examiners for Nursing was created
 START OF NURSING PRACTICE

Mary Chiles Hospital School of Nursing (Manila, 1911)

 START OF NURSING PRACTICE

San Juan de Dios Hospital School of Nursing (Manila, 1913)

 START OF NURSING PRACTICE

Emmanuel Hospital School of Nursing (Capiz, 1913)

 A MUCH ESTABLISHED
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION
(1921 – 1931)
 Filipino Nurses Association (1922)
 An Act Regulating the Practice of Nursing Profession in the Philippine
Islands
OTHER SCHOOLS OF NURSING
1. Zamboanga General Hospital School of Nursing (1921)
2. Chinese General Hospital School of Nursing (1921)
3. Baguio General Hospital School of Nursing (1923)
4. Manila Sanitarium Hospital and School of Nursing (1930)
5. St. Paul School of Nursing in Iloilo City (1946)
6. North General Hospital and School of Nursing (1946)
7. Siliman University School of Nursing (1947)
NURSING DURING WORLD WAR II
NURSING DURING WORLD WAR II
THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN NURSING: 1941 - 1951
 A nursing curriculum tackles on the development of a nursing
education within a University – based College of Nursing
 FIRST COLLEGES OF NURSING
IN THE PHILIPPINES

University of Santo Tomas – College of Nursing (1946)

 FIRST COLLEGES OF NURSING
IN THE PHILIPPINES

Manila Central University-College of Nursing (1947)

 FIRST COLLEGES OF NURSING
IN THE PHILIPPINES

University of the Philippines Manila-College of Nursing (1948)

PROLIFERATION OF NURSES AS
A WORKFORCE
(1951 – 1971)
 Philippine Nursing Law was approved under the Republic Act No. 877
 between 1966 and 1985 about 25,000 Filipino nurses have migrated to
United States
 NURSING PROFESSION
DEVELOPMENT
(1971 – 2001)
 Presidential Decree No. 223
 Philippine Nursing Act of 1991 was also amended under Republic Act
No. 7164
 creation of Nursing Certification Council in 1999 under the Board of
Nursing through Resolution No. 14
 FURTHER CHANGES IN NURSING LAW
2001 – PRESENT

Philippine Nursing Act of 2002

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