NCM 103

• Hospital De Real Manila was built in 1577 for Spanish King soldiers, built by Gov. Francisco De Sande
• San Lazaro Hospital was founded in 1578 by Brother Juan Clemente for patients with leprosy
• Hospital De Indios was established in 1586 by Franciscan Order
• Hospital De Santa Aguas was built in 1890 in Laguna beside a medicinal spring by brother J Bautista of Franciscan Order
• San Juan De Dios Hospital was built in 1896 by Misericordia brotherhood
• Josephine Bracken → Wife of Jose Rizal, installed a field hospital in an estate house in Tejeros
• Rosa Sevilla de Alvero → Converted their house into quarters for the Filipino soldiers; during the Philippine-American War that broke out in 1899
• Dona Hilaria de Aguinaldo → Wife of Emilio Aguinaldo who organized that Filipino Red Cross under the inspiration of Mabini.
• Melchora Aquino a.k.a. “Tandang Sora” → Nursed the wounded Filipino soldiers and gave them shelter and food.
• Trinidad Tecson (“Ina ng Biak-na-Bato”) → Stayed in the hospital at Biak na Bato to care for wounded soldiers
• Capitan Salome → a revolutionary leader in Nueva Ecija;
• Agueda Kahabagan→ Revolutionary leader in Laguna, also provided nursing services to her troops
• Americans began training the first Filipino nursing students in 1907.
• In 1578, male nurses were acknowledged as Spanish Friars’ assistants for caring sick
• nurses were referred as practicante or enfermero.
• The first Filipino nursing students also studied subjects that were more relevant to their patients, such as “the nursing of tropical diseases” and “industrial and living conditions in the islands,” as described by Lavinia L. Dock’s 1912 book A History of Nursing:
• Formal training in hospital school of nursing transpire. This began when American missionary doctors and nurses realized that they manpower is insufficient.
• The first hospital in the Philippines which trained Filipino nurses in 1906 was Iloilo Mission Hospital, established by the Baptist Missionaries.
• Pensionado Act of 1903 (or Act 854) was mandated, allowing Filipino nursing student to study in United States.
• Iloilo mission hospital school of nursing ran by Miss Rose Nicolet
• Iloilo mission hospital moved from its present location to Jaro Road, Iloilo City in 1929
• Miss Flora Ernst, an American nurse, took charge of the school in 1942
• In April 1944 graduate nurses took the first Nurses Board Examination at the Iloilo Mission Hospital.
• SAINT PAUL’S HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF NURSING (MANILA, 1907)• The hospital was established by the Archbishop of Manila, Jeremiah Harty under the supervision of the Sisters of St. Paul de Chartres located in Intramuros.
• SAINT PAUL’S HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF NURSING opened its training school for nurses in 1908, with Mother Melanie as superintendent and Miss Chambers as Principal.
• PGH began in 1901 as a small dispensary for Civil officers and Employees in the City of Manila
• • In 1907, with the support of Governor General Forbes and the Director of Health and among others, she opened classes in nursing under the Auspices of the Bureau of Education.
• Mary Coleman Masters opened a girls dorm for nursing students of Philippines Normal Hall and UP
• Julia Nichols and Charlotte Clayton taught the students nursing subjects in PGH in 1907
• In 1910, the Act No. 1976 modified the organization of the school placing it under the supervision of the Department of Health. The Civil Hospital was abolished and the Philippine General Hospital was established.
• Saint Luke's Hospital 1907- The hospital is an Episcopalian Institution. It began as a small dispensary in 1903. In 1907, the school opened with three girls admitted
• Miss Helen Hicks was the first principal. Mrs. Vitaliana Beltran was the first Filipino superintendent of nurses and Dr. Jose Fores was the first medical director of the hospital.
• Mary Johnston Hospital Manila 1907- started as a small dispensary on Calle Cervantes (now Avenida). It was called the Bethany Dispensary and funded by the Methodist Mission for the relief of suffering among women and children
• In 1907, Sister Rebecca Parrish together with registered nurses Rose Dudley and Gertude Dreisbach, organized the Mary Johnston School of Nursing
• The first nursing board examination was given on 1920.
• First True Nursing Law was enacted through Act 2808
• The hospital was established by Dr. WN Lemon in a small house on Azcarraga, Sampaloc, Manila. In 1913, Miss Mary Chiles of Montana donated
• The Tuason Annex of Mary Chiles Hospital was donated by Miss Esperanza Tuason, a Filipino Philanthropist.
• SAN JUAN DE DIOS HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF NURSING (MANILA, 1913)• In 1913, through the initiative of Dr. Benito Valdez
• Sister Taciana Tinanes was the first Directress of San Juan De Dios Hospital