Public Health Nursing in the Philippines

A set of vocabulary flashcards covering the historical development, key legislation, and significant figures in Philippine Public Health Nursing from 1898 to the late 1990s.

Public Health Nursing

A service rendered by a professional nurse with communities, groups, families, and individuals at home, in health centers, in clinics, in schools, and in places of work for the promotion of health, prevention of illness, care of the sick at home, and rehabilitation.

Department of Public Works, Education and Hygiene

The department established in $1898$ where the history of public health nursing in the Philippines is first embedded.

Fajardo Act (Act No. 2156)

A $1912$ law that created Sanitary Divisions and established the President of the Sanitary Division as a forerunner to Municipal Health Officers.

President of the Sanitary Division

A position created by the Fajardo Act that took charge of two or three municipalities; when no physicians were available, male nurses were assigned to these duties.

Office of District Nursing

An office organized in $1914$ under the Office of General Inspection (created by Reorganization Act No. 2462) to address increasing demands for nurses outside hospitals.

Dr. Rosario Pastor

The head of the Office of District Nursing established in $1914$.

Miss Perla Clark

The individual who took charge of public health nursing work from $1916$ to $1918$ until the office was abolished due to lack of funds.

Miss Carmen del Rosario

The first Filipino nurse supervisor under the Bureau of Health, succeeding Miss Mabel Dabbs in $1919$.

Zamboanga and Baguio General Hospital Schools of Nursing

Government schools established in $1923$ to train non-Christian women to render service among their own people.

Section of Public Health Nursing

The designation created in $1927$ after the Office of District Nursing was abolished.

Section of Nursing

The designation resulting from the change of the Section of Public Health Nursing in $1930$.

RA 4007 (Reorganization Act No. 4007)

A $1933$ law that transferred the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Division to the Bureaa of Health.

EO 94 (Executive Order No. 94)

A $1947$ order that created the Division of Nursing under the Department of Health.

RA 1082 (Rural Health Law)

A $1953$ law that created $81$ Rural Health Units.

RA 1891

A $1957$ law that created $8$ categories of Rural Health Units (RHUs).

RA 977

A law implemented between $1958$ and $1965$ that abolished the Division of Nursing.

EO 288

A $1959$ order that decentralized and integrated health services, creating $8$ Regional Health Offices.

Department of Health National League of Nurses, Inc.

An organization founded in $1961$ by Annie Sand.

Rural Health Practice Program

A program implemented from $1976$ to $1986$ requiring nurses to complete $2$ months of rural service before licensure.

EO 119

An executive order from $1987$ to $1989$ that reorganized the Department of Health.

Nelia F. Hizon

The individual designated as Nursing Adviser in $1999$ under DO $29$.

EO 102

A $1999$ order that redirected Department of Health (DOH) functions and operations.

Annie Sand

A Nursing Education assistant and later Nursing Consultant who founded the National League of Nurses.

Mrs. Josefina A. Mendzaa

A Nursing Consultant who recommended the creation of the Bureau of Nursing.

Mrs. Genara de Guzman

The Nursing consultant and Division of Nursing Chief in $1947$.