HISTORY OF NURSING IN THE PHILIPPINES Flashcards
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function that belonged to women taking care of the children, the sick and the aged.
Nursing
illness causes the invasion of evil spirit through the
use
black magic or voodoo
medicine man and has the power to heal using white magic
shaman or witch doctor
drilling a hole in the skull with a
rock or stone without anesthesia as a last resort to drive evil spirits
from the body.
trephining
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.
Babylonia Era
Code of Hammurabi
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
Egypt Era
“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.
Moses
Israel era
girl’s clothes for male babies keep evils away from them.
- Prohibited the dissection of dead human body as a
worship to ancestors.
China Era
“Father of Scientific
Medicine.
Hippocrates
made her home the first hospital in the Christian.
Rome Era
Fabiola
The first “Lady with a Lamp”.
St. Catherine of Siena
Recognized as the “Mother of Modern Nursing”.
Known also as the “Lady with a Lamp”.
Florence Nightingale
her self-appointed goal
“to change the profile of nursing”
built to care for the Spanish king’s
soldiers
Hospital real de Manila (1577)
built exclusively for patients with leprosy.
San Lazaro Hospital (1578)
established by Franciscan Order; service was in general supported by alms and contributions from charitable
individuals.
Hospital de Indio (1586)
Founded by Brother J. Bautisita of the Franciscan Order.
Hospital de Aguas Santas (1590)
Founded by the Brotherhood of
Misericordia and administered by the Hospitalliers of San Juan de
Dios;
San Juan de Dios Hospital (1596)
a first hospital in an estate house in
Tejeros; provided nursing care to the wounded night and day.
Josephine Bracken
– converted their house into quarters for the
Filipino soldiers, during the Philippine-American War that broke out in
1899.
Rosa Sevilla de Alvero
Wife of Emilio Aguinaldo; organized
Filipino Red Cross under the inspiration of Apolinario Mabini
Dona Hilaria de Aguinaldo
Second wife of Emilio Aguinaldo;
provided nursing care to Filipino soldiers during revolution. President
of Filipino Red Cross branch in Batangas.
Dona Maria Agoncillo de Aguinaldo
Nursed the wounded Filipino soldiers and gave
them shelter and food.
Melchora Aquino also known as “Tandang Sorang”
A revolutionary leader in Nueva Ecija; provided
nursing care to the wounded when not in combat
Capitan Salome
