o cared for Spanish King’s soldiers.
Hospital Real de Manila (1577)
o Leprosy
San Lazaro Hospital (1578)
o general health services
Hospital de Indios (1586)
San Juan de Dios Hospita l(1596)
Miss Rose Nicolet
First graduate nurses of the
Philippines graduated in IMH
School of Nursing in 1909
▪ Nicasia Cada
▪ Felipa Gumabong
▪ Dorotea Caldito.
▪ took charged of the school
in1942
Miss Flora Ernst
THE FIRST COLLEGES OF NURSING
IN THE PHILIPPINES
University of Santo Tomas College of
Nursing (1946)
* University of the Philippines College of
Nursing (1948)
* Manila Central University College of
Nursing (1947)
First Filipino Nurse – Chief Nurse and
Superintendent
* Founder of the Philippine Nurses
Association
Anastacia Giron-Tupas
First Filipino – Master’s Degree in Nursing
Abroad
Cesaria Tan
Pioneered in Hospital Social Service in San
Lazaro Hospital where she was the Chief
Nurse
Socoro Sirilan
Pioneer in School Health Education
Rosa Militar
Sor Ricarda Mendoza
Socorro Diaz
Conchita Ruiz
Loreto Tupaz