HISTORY OF NURSING IN THE PHILIPPINES

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function that belonged to women taking care of the 
children, the sick and the aged.

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Nursing

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illness causes the invasion of evil spirit through the

use

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black magic or voodoo

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medicine man and has the power to heal using white magic

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shaman or witch doctor

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drilling a hole in the skull with a
rock or stone without anesthesia as a last resort to drive evil spirits
from the body.

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trephining

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medical practice and
recommended specific doctors for each disease and gave
each patient the right to choose between the use of
charms, medications or surgical procedures.

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Babylonia Era

Code of Hammurabi

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the art of embalming. ability to make keen observation and left a
record of 250 recognized diseases.
Slaves and patient’s families nursed the sick

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Egypt Era

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“Father of Sanitation”.
- Emphasized the practice of hospitality to strangers
and acts of charity
- Promulgated laws of control on the spread of
communicable disease and the ritual of
circumcision of the male child
- Referred to nurses as midwives, wet nurses or
child’s nurses whose acts were compassionate
and tender.

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Moses

Israel era

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girl’s clothes for male babies keep evils away from them.
- Prohibited the dissection of dead human body as a
worship to ancestors.

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China Era

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“Father of Scientific

Medicine.

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Hippocrates

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made her home the first hospital in the Christian.

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Rome Era

Fabiola

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The first “Lady with a Lamp”.

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St. Catherine of Siena

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Recognized as the “Mother of Modern Nursing”.

Known also as the “Lady with a Lamp”.

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Florence Nightingale

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her self-appointed goal

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“to change the profile of nursing”

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built to care for the Spanish king’s

soldiers

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Hospital real de Manila (1577)

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built exclusively for patients with leprosy.

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San Lazaro Hospital (1578)

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established by Franciscan Order; service was in general supported by alms and contributions from charitable
individuals.

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Hospital de Indio (1586)

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Founded by Brother J. Bautisita of the Franciscan Order.

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Hospital de Aguas Santas (1590)

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Founded by the Brotherhood of
Misericordia and administered by the Hospitalliers of San Juan de
Dios;

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San Juan de Dios Hospital (1596)

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a first hospital in an estate house in

Tejeros; provided nursing care to the wounded night and day.

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Josephine Bracken

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– converted their house into quarters for the
Filipino soldiers, during the Philippine-American War that broke out in
1899.

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Rosa Sevilla de Alvero

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Wife of Emilio Aguinaldo; organized

Filipino Red Cross under the inspiration of Apolinario Mabini

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Dona Hilaria de Aguinaldo

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Second wife of Emilio Aguinaldo;
provided nursing care to Filipino soldiers during revolution. President
of Filipino Red Cross branch in Batangas.

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Dona Maria Agoncillo de Aguinaldo

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Nursed the wounded Filipino soldiers and gave

them shelter and food.

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Melchora Aquino also known as “Tandang Sorang”

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A revolutionary leader in Nueva Ecija; provided

nursing care to the wounded when not in combat

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Capitan Salome

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Revolutionary leader in Laguna, also provided

nursing services to her troops

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Agueda Kahabagan

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“Ina ng Biac na Bato”, stayed in the hospital at Biac

na Bato to care for the wounded soldiers.

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Trinidad Tecson

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First Colleges of Nursing in the Philippines

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• University of Santo Tomas College of Nursing (1946)
• Manila Central University College of Nursing (1947)
• University of the Philippines College of Nursing (1948)