Week 2 Flashcards
The cause of disease was believed due to another person or with evil spirits.
They were believed to bewitched by “mangkukulam”.
Herb doctors or priests know ti get rid of demon/evil spirits.
Filipino who became sick usually cared by the female family member.
Early Philippines (Early beliefs, Practice, and Care of the sick)
Many specialized hospitals were established to care for Spanish King’s soldiers and civilians. Ti many elite Filipinos the Spanish colonial hospitals were places where those who were not so fortunate to have homes spent tgeir last dats until death
Spanish Colonial Era
Mainly to care for the Spanish King’s soldiers
Hospital Real De Manila (1577)
Built exclusively for patients with leprosy
San Lazaro Hospital (1578)
Supported by ALMS and contributions from charitable persons
Hospital de Indios (1565)
Hospital de Aguas Santas (1590)
Rendered General Health Services to the public
San Juan de Dios (1596)
Many women have assumed the role of nurses in order to assist the wounded soldier
Philippine Revolution
Provided nursing to the wounded night and day
Josephine Bracken
Converted their homes into quarters for the Filipino soldiers
Rosa Sevilla de Alvaro
Organized Filipino Red Cross
Dona Hilario Aguinaldo
Provided nursing care to Filipino soldiers during the revolution
Dona Marie Agoncillo de Aguinaldo
Nursed the ill and wounded and has brought comparisons to Florence Nightingale
Melchora Aquino
Revolutionary leader in Laguna, provided nursing care to her troops
Agueda Kahabagan
Stayed in the hospital at Biak-na-bato to take care for wounded soldier
Trinidad Tecson
Nursing education provided white American women with sense to purpose in the colony.
American nurses took charge and Filipino women began to learn under careful eyes. Formal
training in hospital school transpires.
American Colonial Era
Pioneered nursing education in the Philippines.
Iloilo Mission Hospital (1901)
Provided general hospital services and
opened training school of nurses in 1908
St. Paul’s Hospital School of Nursing (1907).
Opened classes in Nursing
under the Auspices of Bureau of Education
Philippines General Hospital School of Nursing (1907).
The school opened with girls admitted
St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing (1907).
The nurse’s training course
begin with 3 Filipinos young girl fresh elementary as their first students
Mary Johnston Hospital and School of Nursing (1907)
Established in a small house at
Sampaloc, Manila
Mary Chiles Hospital School of Nursing (1911).
Through the initiative of Dr.
Benito Valdez, the hospital passed a resolution to open school of nursing
San Juan de Dios Hospital School of Nursing (1913)
Offered an 3 yrs training course for
an annual fee of 100 PHP
Emmanuel Hospital School of Nursing (1913).
First board examination for nurses conducted at UP College of Medicine and
Surgery, 68 passed out of 93 examinees, 93.5% highest rating
1920.