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TOP 10 NURSING SCHOOLS IN THE PHILIPPINES
According to CHED
1. Silliman University 96.57
2. Saint Louis University 95.42
3. Trinity University of Asia 95.06
4. University of Sto. Tomas 95.06
5. Cebu Doctors University 91.89
6. Saint Paul University 89.79
7. Central Philippine University 86.72
8. De La Salle University-Health Sciences campus 85.26
9. Saint Mary’s University 84.10
10. San Pedro College 83. 10
11-20. Manila Doctors College, 82.56; Centro Escolar University-Manila, 81.50; Angeles
University Foundation, 76.37; Mariano Marcos University, 75.55; University of San
Agustin, 73.25; University of Cebu, 70.99; Metropolitan Hospital College of Nursing,
70.54; Ateneo De Davao University, 70.20; San Juan De Dios Education Foundation, 69.
91; and University of St. La Salle with 67.55 percent.
MUSHROOM NURSING SCHOOLS
Meanwhile, according to Emmanuel Angeles, Commission on Higher Education (CHED) chairman, a total
of 152 nursing schools were found to have performed below the national passing rate
of 46.14 percent for the past five years.
These 152 nursing schools will face closure if they fail to improve their nursing
programs through their graduates’ performance in the coming nursing licensure
exams.
Among the 152 poor performing nursing schools are: Arellano University-Manila, Arellano University-
Pasay, De Los Santos-STI College, De Ocampo Memorial College, Dominican College, Dr. Carlos S.
Lanting College, Emilio Aguinaldo College, J.P. Sioson General Hospital and Colleges, La Consolacion
College Manila, Las Piñas College, Martinez Memorial College, Mary Chiles College, Olivarez College,
Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Pasay, Perpetual Help College of Manila, Philippine College of Health
Sciences, Philippine Rehabilitation Institute Foundation, Southeast Asian College, St. Jude College, St.
Rita Hospital College of Nursing and School of Midwifery, STI College-Recto, the Family Clinic, Unciano
Colleges and General Hospital, University of Perpetual Help-Rizal, and World Citi Colleges, Quezon City.
Those who have closed or stopped operating their nursing program included the Antipolo School of
Nursing and Midwifery, Heroes Memorial College, Kolehiyo ng Mamamayan, Cotabato Maritime
Academy, Ignatian College, Clinica Arellano School of Midwifery, Quezon Memorial College, Sta.
Teresita College, Baguio General Hospital, Chong Jua Hospital School of Nursing, Faith Hospital School
of Midwifery, Manila College of Optometry, Ortanez University and the Philippine Union College of
Caloocan.
ALLOCATION OF TUITION to follow nlng poh ung sa di
okay na school
HISTORY NG NURSING IN RP
Early Beliefs, Practices and Care of the sick
Early Filipinos subscribed to superstitious belief and practices in relation to
health and sickness
Diseases, their causes and treatment were associated with mysticism and
superstitions
Cause of disease was caused by another person (an enemy of witch) or evil
spirits
Persons suffering from diseases without any identified cause were believed
bewitched by “mangkukulam”
Difficult childbirth were attributed to “nonos”
Evil spirits could be driven away by persons with powers to expel demons
Belief in special Gods of healing: priest-physician, word doctors,
herbolarios/herb doctors
Early Hospitals during the Spanish Regime – religious orders exerted efforts to
care for the sick by building hospitals in different parts of the Philippines:
Hospital Real de Manila San Juan de Dios Hospital
San Lazaro Hospital Hospital de Aguas Santas
Hospital de Indios
Prominent personages involved during the Philippine Revolution
1. Josephine Bracken – wife of Jose Rizal installed a field hospital in an estate in
Tejeros that provided nursing care to the wounded night and day.
2. Rose Sevilla de Alvaro – converted their house into quanters for Filipino
soldiers during the Phil-American War in 1899.
3. Hilaria de Aguinaldo –wife of Emlio Aginaldo organized the Filipino Red Cross.
4. Melchora Aquino – (Tandang Sora) nursed the wounded Filipino soldiers, gave
them shelter and food.
5. Captain Salomen – a revolutionary leader in Nueva Ecija provided nursing
care to the wounded when not in combat.
6. Agueda Kahabagan – revolutionary leader in Laguna also provided nursing
services to her troops.
7. Trinidad Tecson (Ina ng Biak na Bato) – stayed in the hospital at Biac na Bato
to care for the wounded soldiers.
School Of Nursing
1. St. Paul’s Hospital School of Nursing, Intramuros Manila – 1900
2. Iloilo Mission Hospital Training School of Nursing – 1906
1909 – distinction of graduating the 1st trained nurses in the Phils. With no
standard requirements for admission of applicants except their “willingness to
work”
April 1946 – a board exam was held outside of Manila. It was held in the Iloilo
Mission Hospital thru the request of Ms. Loreto Tupas, principal of the school.
1. St. Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing – 1907;opened after four years as a
dispensary clinic.
1. Mary Johnston Hospital School of Nursing – 1907
2. Philippines General Hospital school of Nursing – 1910
College of Nursing
1. UST College of Nursing – 1st College of Nursing in the Phils: 1877
2. MCU College of Nursing – June 1947 (1st College who offered BSN – 4 year
program)
3. UP College of Nursing – June 1948
4. FEU Institute of Nursing – June 1955
5. UE College of Nursing – Oct 1958
1909
3 female graduated as “qualified medical-surgical nurses”
1919
The 1st Nurses Law (Act#2808) was enacted regulating the practice of the
nursing profession in the Philippines Islands. It also provided the holding of
exam for the practice of nursing on the 2nd Monday of June and December of
each year.
1920
1st board examination for nurses was conducted by the Board of Examiners, 93
candidates took the exam, 68 passed with the highest rating of 93.5%-Anna
Dahlgren
theoretical exam was held at the UP Amphitheater of the College of Medicine and
Surgery. Practical exam at the PGH Library.
1921
Filipino Nurses Association was established (now PNA) as the National Organization
Of Filipino Nurses
PNA: 1st President – Rosario Delgado
Founder – Anastacia Giron-Tupas
1953
Republic Act 877, known as the “Nursing Practice Law” was approved.
ARTICLE III
Provisions Regarding Nursing Schools and Colleges
Section 11. Purpose of school or college of nursing. — Schools and colleges of nursing should be established for the preparation of
qualified applicants for the profession of nursing, and should be operated as educational institutions.
Section 12. Budget and facilities. — Provisions should be made for adequate budget for the school or college of nursing and for
adequate library, classrooms, and teaching equipment and supplies.
Section 13. Clinical and public health nursing facilities. — No hospital, college or university shall be permitted to operate a school or
college of nursing unless provision is made by such hospital or university for at least one hundred beds to be available at all times for
occupation by medical (including communicable), surgical, obstetric and pediatric patients. Provisions for student’s experience in the field of
public health nursing should likewise be made with community health agencies.
Colleges or universities offering courses to nurses-graduates of the three-year hospital course should also make necessary provisions for
additional experience of students either in hospitals or in public health nursing depending on their major study.
Section 14. Qualifications of faculty members. — The director of the school or the dean of the college of nursing should be a qualified
nurse with the following minimum qualifications;
(a) Must be a holder of a bachelor’s degree in nursing and a nursing education major;
(b) Must have had at least three years of acceptable experience in teaching and supervision in schools or colleges of nursing;
(c) Must be a registered nurse; and
(d) Must be a Filipino citizen.
The instructors in nursing arts and in clinical nursing courses should be registered nurses with the following minimum qualifications:
(a) Must be holders of the bachelor’s degree in nursing;
(b) Must have majored in the particular subject or subjects which they teach;
(c) Must have had at least a year of acceptable experience as head nurses in a hospital.
The instructor in public health nursing should be a nurse with the following minimum qualifications:
(a) Must be a holder of a bachelor’s degree in nursing, and a major in public health nursing;
(b) Must have had at least six months of acceptable experience in generalized public health nursing; and
(c) Must be a registered nurse.
Section 15. General entrance requirements to schools and colleges of nursing. — Applicants desiring to enter any hospital school of
nursing must show evidence of completion of at least one year of college work in recognized educational institution. Courses studied should
include: Chemistry, Zoology, English, Spanish, Psychology, Social Science and Sociology. Provided, however, That the foregoing provision
should not be so construed as to prejudice the setting up of additional requirements by individual schools and colleges of nursing or
preclude the offering of said courses in four years integrated programs in colleges of nursing.
NURSING SCHOOL ISSUES
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The Philippines is known worldwide to produce quality nurses. For the past couple of decades,
demand for Filipino nurses has been so great that numerous nursing schools started
coming out like mushrooms.
Recently, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines has suggested that CHED make public all the 177
substandard nursing schools in the Philippines. TUCP said it’s CHED’s duty to warn the parents and their
children of these inferior schools.
There are over 400,000 nursing students in the Philippines today, if more than half of this number comes
from substandard nursing schools, there is no telling when Filipino nurses will stop getting praises they’ve
The immaculate image of our nurses will be stained
received since time immemorial.
just because these schools can’t give their students the proper education
they’ve paid for.
The local board exam measures one’s knowledge on the foundations of nursing and its basic skills. Like
what one of my professors said, being a board passer only ticks off one qualification in the long list of
credentials a newly graduate nursing student should have: LICENSE. Having a license makes you a nurse,
but it doesn’t make you a good one. That 2 letters affixed after your name is the minimum requirement to
being a nurse. If one school can’t even produce a decent number of qualified nurses, what happens to their
students after graduation?
Education, they say, is the first step to a good career. If these schools can’t give their students a good one,
why allow them to continue on with what they’re doing? Do we have to risk the future of our students?
Money is hard to earn and nursing is not a cheap course. Even the lowliest parents would try to get one of
their children in a nursing school, in hopes, that after 4 years, their efforts will be worth something.
The list of underperforming schools should be released to the public as a warning – to schools who think
they can get away with the kind of education they offer and to families to be more careful in choosing a
nursing school for their children.
There are too many bad apples in the basket. If none of us will try to remove the bad ones, The Philippines
will lose one of its important, profitable and respectable workforces.
The annual outflow of Filipino nurses is now three times greater than the
annual production of licensed nurses, said Dr. Jaime Z. Galvez-Tan, executive director of the
National Institutes of Health Philippines. Global need Tan said the shortage of nurses in the developed
countries would not just be for a year or two, but for at least the next 10 to 15 years.
He explains: The developed countries are experiencing a longer lifespan and the ³graying of their
population.² But their youth population is not interested in the nursing profession because of the difficult
and risky work. More options are also available to them to take on other professions that offer better pay
and working conditions. The solution for these countries: hire foreign nurses to do the job. Based on
statements made by their respective governments, the US would need around 10,000 nurses a year, while
the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands and other European countries would need another 10,000 nurses a year.
rationale for the increase:
by reason of necessity to offset the increasing cost of commodities and services
by reason of beneficiality to maintain and improve the standard of education which
requires competitive compensation package for teachers/personnel and better facilities
and services for students.
National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) – union ng students
MANILA - Students mostly from low- and middle-income families are protesting the Polytechnic
University of the Philippines' plan to raise tuition fees by 2,000 percent effective this coming
school year 2010-2011.
Protests erupted yesterday and went on today at PUP's main campus in Sta. Mesa, Manila. Irate students
threw out chairs from the university's buildings, staged a walkout from their classes and
staged a protest march to the presidential palace nearby.
PUP officials are planning to raise tuition from the current P12.00 ($0.26) to P200.00 ($4.39) per unit, said
Donna Pascual, the student representative in the university's governing Board of Regents. The low tuition
fees have earned the PUP the monicker "people's university". Only a small fraction of the students receive
a full academic scholarship to include living and other educational expenses. (The country's daily
minimum wage ranges from P210.00 [$4.60] in portions of Mindanao to P382.00 [$8.38].)
Pascual said while the board has yet to act on the proposal, the PUP administration has issued a notice on
the university website, informing incoming freshmen that there will be a tuition fee increase that will affect
them.
The notice reads: "ADVISORY: The public is being informed that PUP will increase the tuition and other
fees of incoming freshmen in board and laboratory-intensive programs for the school year 2010-2011,
subject to the approval of the University Board of Regents."
Pascual said the tuition fee hike may be the PUP administration's response to a cut in the
national government's budget for the university.
government, with consent
She said that in the 2010 national appropriations act, the Arroyo
from Congress, reduced the budget for PUP by P43-million ($943,720) to
P661-million ($14-million).
Around 52,000 students and 1,483 faculty would be sharing this amount for university-level education
across PUP's six campuses, two branches and 10 extensions across the country.
PUP's huge student population, many of whom come from the country's peasant, workingclass and middle-
class families, is a hotbed of student activism. The Arroyo administration should stop the PUP
administration's surprise attack on the issue of tuition fees or face the wrath of these students and their
families.
The University of the Philippines, another state university, raised its tuition fees by more
than 300-percent in December 2006. From P300.00 ($6.58) per unit, the tuition went up to
P1,000.00 ($21.94) per unit.
Of Tuition Fee Increases and Desperate Students
Posted on March 27, 2010 by Ishmael Fischer Ahab
Popular in the Philippine media these days are the scenes wherein students of state universities and colleges
(SUCs) conduct violent mass protest to send their message to the government. Most popular of these is the
mass protests in Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) of militant students who threw away old
and dilapidated chairs from their classrooms and burned them inside the campus. The latest is the mass
protest in the office of the Commission of Higher Education.
The string of protests of student from the SCUs is caused by the continued neglect of the public education
system by the government. The education sector is one of the sectors that is being
funded well by the government. As the years passed, the budget allocated for
the SUCs shrinks and the school is left without any money to fund its
operations. Because of this, SCUs are forced to find other sources of funds. The University of the
Philippines – Diliman (UP – Diliman) leased its landholdings along Commonwealth Avenue to Ayala
Corp. This is aside from the increase in tuition fee from 300 pesos per unit to 1000 pesos per unit.
PUP, on the other hand, sought partnerships with the private sectors to help in operating the university. One
of this is letting a call center company to partner with the mass communication department of PUP. The
administration of PUP tried every year to push tuition fee increases. For this year, the proposed tuition fee
increase for PUP is as high as 300 pesos per unit.
This proposal caught the ire of PUP’s militant students, who vowed to stop the proposed tuition fee
increase from happening.
Free to Speak but Ignored
Students of the University of the Philippines (UP) experienced the same predicament of PUP students years
ago when the UP Administration proposed a tuition fee increase of approximately 300%. Militant students
staged rallies and protests but to no avail. UP Administration and the government ignored the plea of the
students. UP Students then chosed a determined but peaceful means of protest but they were completely
shrugged off by those who are in power.
PUP students learned from the tragedy that befell UP students and chose to stage a protest that will catch
the attention of the media and the support of the public. The buzz that they created when they burned old
and dilapidated chairs made the incident attractive to the sensationalist media establishment. PUP
students succeeded in gaining the attention of the public and making their
plight as a representative of the plight of the SUCs.
What is happening to UP and PUP is the same or worse as in other SUCs. Many SUCs get little support
from the government forcing them to either close up or to raise their tuition fees. New fees were also being
collected in other schools like the internet fee. The low budget that the SUCs have also means that
professors and lecturers receive dismal amount of salary and benefits. Because of this, many professors
are demoralized and less motivated to do their job. As a result, students of SUCs get low quality
of education that is not enough for them to compete with other graduates in the job market.
More Increases to follow
With the continued rise in the operational cost of SUCs, it is expected that more tuition fee increases will
follow. Simultaneously, administrators of SUCs will create more fees to augment the budget that they
receive from the government. In UP, for example, there is a proposal of additional 400 pesos to the current
tuition fee. Thus, the tuition fee in UP – Diliman will be about 1,400 pesos per unit.
The effects of the continued rise in tuition fees are great. More students, who just graduated from high
school, will not continue to tertiary education. The rate of college students dropping out will also increase
since they do not have the money to continue their studies. All in all, it is the poor who will suffer because
they are the ones who have the least capacity to send their children to college.
The current situation in the Philippine education system somewhat indicates that the poor have no right to
be educated. The masses will have to wallow in their continued ignorance at the expense of the overall
national development of the Philippines.
It is no wonder that the Philippines is still stuck in poverty. The government is not prioritizing the
sectors that are important to the welfare of its citizens. The government had ignored and
continues to ignore the health, agricultural, and education sectors. PUP students succeeded to prevent the
increase of tuition fee in their school, however, more fight had be made before the education sector gains
the attention that it truly deserves.
PUP Tuition Fee Increase
Posted by butalidnl on 21 March 2010
Students at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) walked out of their classes on 19
March to protest the proposal to raise tuition fees by almost 1700% – from PhP 12/unit at present,
to PhP 200/unit next school year. The present tuition fee is quite low, being the cheapest of all state
universities in the country. The proposed increase will bring the cost per semester from PhP 300 or
so to more than PhP 5000 for the students from low-income families. Students should be able to
afford this, people could say, especially since tuition in private universities are in the PhP
20,000/semester or higher range.
Despite this, I think that the fee increase is not right, for the following reasons:
Budget
The family budgets of the affected students were not made on the basis of the new, increased fees.
There was probably no expectations of such a level of expense by the families involved. Granted
that the amounts are relatively low, but they are still substantial for families whose family budgets
are “just enough”, or even “less than just enough”. They didn’t bargain for this
level of expenses, and if they knew that fees were going to be this high, they maybe would not have
enrolled their child in PUP. And in case they decided to continue for the couple of years under the
increased fees, it would be a load that would be beyond the present means of many families.
Other Expenses
Add to this the fact that sending a student to college is expensive in itself, even in addition to the
tuition fee. Miscellaneous or lab fees, depending on the course, are added to the tuition. And other
expenses like school supplies, uniforms, fare to and from school, baon, and for some even lodging
expenses have to be counted also.
And then there is the opportunity expense. If the student was not studying, perhaps he/she could
be working to earn a living. This, the missed income for not working, and studying instead, is
perhaps the biggest expense of all.
So, poor families are spending a fair enough share of the expenses for sending their children to
college in PUP. It is not that they are simply benefiting without contributing anything.
Need for Fees
At the same time, I understand that there is a need for state schools to charge a reasonable tuition
fee. Even if it is a 1700% increase over the previous fee level, PhP 200/unit sounds quite
reasonable nevertheless. I believe that state universities should be able to both collect the fees it
needs, while at the same time still be open to having students from even the lowest socio-economic
classes. This is better done on a per-student level, through a system of “waivers of fees”, or even
scholarships for low-income students, than by a system where everybody is in effect subsidized.
This way, it would make the system be able to handle more students, at less costs, while giving a
good education to everybody, both the poor and the less poor.
And I think that any tuition fee increase should only be applicable to those still to enter PUP,
starting with next year’s freshman students, and that the fees be applied gradually as new students
come in. This way, the family budget question is addressed, and nobody gets caught in the middle
of a course when the fees skyrocket. Families would then decide, on the basis of all projected school
expenses, whether or not to send their children to college.
Sample of course syllabus
UNIVERSITY OF ENGLAND, Q.ave
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
First Year
First Semester
CODE SUBJECT TITLE UNITS PRE-REQUISITES
Engl 1 English 1(Comm.Skills) 3
Psych 1 Gen.Psychology 3
Chem 1 Gen.Chemistry 5
Bio 1 Anatomy 1 5
Math 1 College Algebra 3
PE 1 Self-Testing Activities/Gymnastics 2
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Second Semester
CODE SUBJECT TITLE UNITS PRE-REQUISITES
Engl 2 English 2 (College Reading & Writing) 3 Engl 1
Psych 2 Developmental Psychology 3 Psych 1
Chem 2 Biochemistry 4 Chem 1
Bio 1a Anatomy 2 4 Bio 1
PHC Primary Health Care 7
PE 2 Rhythmic Activities/Aquatic 2 PE 1
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SUMMER
CODE SUBJECT TITLE UNITS PRE-REQUISITES
NCM 100 Foundation of Nursing 3 PHC
Pharma Pharmacology 3 Chem 2
Nutrition Basic Nutrition 3
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Second Year
First Semester
CODE SUBJECT TITLE UNITS PRE-REQUISITES
Bio 2 Microbiology & Parasitology 4 Bio 1a
NCM 101 Promotive & Preventive Nursing Care Management 16 NMC 101
Engl 3 English 3 (Oral Communication) 3 Engl 2
PE 3 Ind/Dual Sports/Games 2 PE 2
NSTP 1 WTS/LTS (3)
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Second Semester
CODE SUBJECT TITLE UNITS PRE-REQUISITES
Soc Sci 1 Sociology 3
NCM 102 Curative & Rehabilitative Nursing Care Management 16 NCM 101
Engl 4 English 4 (World Lit) 3 Engl 3
PE 4 Team Sports/ Games 2 PE 3
NSTP 2 WTS/LTS (3) NSTP 1
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SUMMER
CODE SUBJECT TITLE UNITS PRE-REQUISITES
NCM 103 Related Learning Experience 4 NCM 101 - 102
Intro to Computer 3
Humanities 3
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Third Year
First Semester
CODE SUBJECT TITLE UNITS PRE-REQUISITES
NCM 104 Curative & Rehabilitative Nursing Care Management 2 16 NCM 102, 103
Engl 5 English 5 (elective) Technical Writing 3 Engl 4
Math 2 Basic Statistics 3 Math 1
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Second Semester
CODE SUBJECT TITLE UNITS PRE-REQUISITES
AHSE SS2 Health Economics with TAR 3
Hist 1 Phil.History & Culture 3
NRS Intro to Nursing Research 3 Engl 3
Philo 1 Philosophy of Man 3
Physics 1 General Physics 3
NCA 1 Course Audit 5
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SUMMER
CODE SUBJECT TITLE UNITS PRE-REQUISITES
CHD Community Health Development 3
SHED Strategies in Health Education 3
6
Fourth Year
First Semester
CODE SUBJECT TITLE UNITS PRE-REQUISITES
Filipino 1 Filipino 1 (Sining ng Pakikipagtalsatasan) 3
Elective 2 English 6 (elective) Expository Writing 3 Elective 1
NCM 105 Nursing Management & Leadership 16 NCM 103, 104
Second Semester
CODE SUBJECT TITLE UNITS PRE-REQUISITES
Fil 2 Filipino 2 (Pagbasa at Pagsulat) 3 Fil 1
Lit 1 Intro to Phil. Literature 3
Rizal Rizal's Life, Works & Writing 3
Pol Sci Phil.Government & Constitution 3
Philo 2 Logic & Critical Thinking 3 Philo 1
Hist 2 Asian Civilization 3 Hist 1
NCA 2 Course Audit 3 NCA 1
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