leaders philippines

Question 1

First Filipino Nurse who acquired a Master’s Degree in Nursing in the United States

Answer 1

Cesaria Tan

Question 2

Reformed social service for Indigenous clients in San Lazaro Hospital

Answer 2

Socorro Sirilan

Question 3

First Filipina Industrial Nurse

Answer 3

Magdalena Valenzuela

Question 4

Founded the National League of Philippine Government Nurses

Answer 4

Annie Sand

Question 5

Known as the Dean of Philippine Nursing Education and “Florence Nightingale of Iloilo”

Answer 5

Loreto Tupaz

Question 6

First Female Military Nurse

Answer 6

Coronel Elvegia Mendoza

Question 7

First editor of “The Message” the first journal of the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) formerly known as Filipino Nurses Association (FNA).

Answer 7

Socorro Diaz

Question 8

First editor of “The Filipino Nurse” the second journal of PNA.

Answer 8

Conchita Ruiz

Question 9

First Filipino Nurse with a title of Nursing Superintendent, Chief Nurse at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH), and founder of Filipino Nurses Association (FNA)

Answer 9

Anastacia Giron-Tupaz

Question 10

First president of FNA. She was a graduate of Philippine General Hospital School of Nursing in 1912.

Answer 10

Rosario Montemayor Delgado

Question 11

Considered as the “Florence Nightingale “ of the Philippines.
Founder and the first Dean of The University of the Philippines who gave way to professional nursing in the Philippines and Professor Emeritus of UPCN.

The author for the Code of Ethics for Nurses (PRC-BON Resolution #633, 1982

Answer 11

Dr. Jolita Sotejo