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A law that allowed the practice of nursing was reformed in April 1919. Act 2808, also known as "the First True Nursing Law", established the Board of Examiners for Nurses. The first board exam for nurses was given in 1920. Today, nurses must acquire their degrees through a combination of competency-based and community-oriented courses.
Cebu Technological University (CTU) - Cebu City Medical Center College of Nursing; Central Philippine University - The first nursing school - started in 1906 and produced the first 3 graduates in 1909. Centro Escolar University; Chinese General Hospital College of Nursing; Christ the King College
The Rev. Charles Brent, the first Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines saw the need for Filipino nurse initiated the school’s establishment together with Miss Ellen T. Hicks, then the first superintendent of nurses. The school had three of the seventeen Filipino women who first took nursing in the Philippines. Courses Offered:
The hospital's establishment of its nursing school in 1906 has yielded three nursing graduates in 1909, who after completion of their education and training at Iloilo Mission Hospital, has the distinction of being the first three nursing education and clinical training graduates in the Philippines. In the history of nursing education and ...
The college is the first nursing school in the Philippines and since its founding in 1906, it has produced and associated with notable alumni and other people. The notable people of the college include: Nicasia Cada - One of the first three graduate nurses of the Philippines who graduated in 1909. [5]
In late December 1941, many of the nurses were assigned to a pair of battlefield hospitals on Bataan named Hospital #1 and Hospital #2. [14] [15] These hospitals included the first open-air wards in US history since the Civil War. [16] Tropical diseases, including malaria and dysentery, were widespread among both hospital patients and staff ...
Lieutenant Colonel Juanita Redmond Hipps (July 1, 1912 – February 25, 1979) was a US Army nurse during World War II. She was present in the Philippines during the early part of the war and was regarded as one of the Angels of Bataan. A bestselling book she wrote about her experiences formed the background for the 1943 war movie So Proudly We ...
First female chief nurse and superintendent of the Philippine General Hospital: Anastacia Giron-Tupas – 1917 [108] First Balagtasan in the Philippines: took place at Instituto de Mujeres in Manila on April 6, 1924 [109] First comic strip in the Philippines: Kenkoy – published on January 11, 1929 [110]