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This is a list of nursing schools in the Philippines. A Adamson University; Ago Foundation College - Naga City; Ago Medical and Educational Center - Legazpi, Albay; Angeles University Foundation; Aklan State University(School of Arts and Sciences)- Banga, Aklan; University of Santo Tomas-Legazpi - Legazpi, Albay; Araullo University - Cabanatuan
The Philippine Nurse Licensure Examination is a 500-item multiple choice exam to test basic nursing level competency which considers the objectives of the nursing curriculum, the broad areas of nursing and other related disciplines and competencies. It is held every June and December annually in various public schools throughout the Philippines.
Besides downsizing and cost cutting, Dean Dumlao conjured up a relevant medical model by creating the BSN Supplemental program designed to meet the demands for graduate nurses from GN program. By taking over the deanship on 1984, Dean Carmelita Dela Cruz-Divinagracia (Pioneer ’62) is the first alumna dean of the college.
In the Philippines, it was also the early 1900s when the first school for nursing was established. The program of study was still shattered and unclear. Only a few students were enrolled informally in this kind of education. A legislation or law was needed at the time, contributing to the establishment of the "First True Nursing Law" in 1919. [11]
The college offered a pioneer program in nursing, the 4-year baccalaureate program which conferred upon its graduates the degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN). The existing nursing program in the country then, was the hospital-based School of Nursing, which conferred upon the graduates the title of Graduate in Nursing (G.N).
From 1963 to 1973 Miss Tupaz continued to administer the three course programs of the college---the BSN five-year course, the CCT (Clinical Teaching) course, and the BSN Supplemental Course. On May 1, 1972, Mrs. Natividad C. Caipang, GN, BSN, MA, (CPU); CPH (UP), was appointed assistant dean in preparation for the retirement of Miss Tupaz in 1974.
The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN, BScN) also known in some countries as a Bachelor of Nursing (BN) or Bachelor of Science (BS) with a Major in Nursing is an academic degree in the science and principles of nursing, granted by an accredited tertiary education provider. The course of study is typically three or four years.
The school offers an innovative "step-ladder" curriculum where each student starts at a single point and exits at various levels with varying competencies, first as Community Health Worker (CHW), or Midwife then sequentially as Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), and eventually as Doctor of Medicine (MD).