Nursing

Associations in the
Philippines
Ahmad, Abdul Barrie
Demonteverde, Neifel Mae
Guatlo, Jaymark
Masa kawaguchi, Dominique
Tabora, Ralph Ryan
Pasa, Marie Yvonne

The Occupational Health Nurses

Association of the Philippines
November 21, 1950
Industrial Nursing Unit of the Philippine Nurses
Association through the initiative of Mrs.
Magdalena Valenzuela of the Department of
Health.
For the purpose of promoting friendship and to
organize nurses in industrial and commercial
enterprises into an Industrial Nursing Unit.
September 20, 1969
- Unit renamed the Occupational Health
Nurses Association of the Philippines.

Its purposes are...

To contribute to the promotion of public

health through the conservation and
promotion of the industrial workers
health and that of his family;
To keep up with modern methods and
techniques of public health nursing in general
and of industrial nursing in particular in order
to promote the quality and quantity of
nursing service;
To provide expert nursing guidance for
industrial health workers;

To attain good relationship and understanding

among industrial nurses in particular and all
nurses in general;
To provide a medium whereby common problems
of industrial nurses may be threshed out for the
benefit of all;
To raise the insight of industrial nurses beyond
the walls of their industrial clinics so they may see
their place not only in the nursing service but in
the total program as well; and
To gain support from agencies employing nurses.

Philippine Nurses
Association of the Public
Health Nursing Faculty

September 1961
Association was organized
Dedicated to the maintenance of high
standards of objectives to standardize
and broaden instruction in Public
Health Nursing and to Undertake that
which will enhance professional growth.

The Private Duty Nurses

Association of the
Philippines

Private duty nursing existed before as

a section of the Philippine Nurses
Association.

1975 the Philippine Hospital

Association had in the agenda of its
monthly meeting the problems of the
hospitals regarding private duty
nurses.

Such problems included:

1. The need to increase the number of
the private duty nurses in the hospital;

2.

The provision of definite policies or

guidelines in employment;

3.

Uniformity in rate of pay and correct

unprofessional practices.

These problems were referred to the

PNA:

Mrs. Mary Vita B. Jackson member

of the PNA Board;

Dr. Perla B. Sanchez, President of

ANSAP;

Its is largely through the efforts of the

association that the rates of private
nurses were modified and specific
qualifications were formulated.
Members include not only those in
active practice in Metro Manila but
also those in as far as Bacolod and
Cebu cities.
Each hospital with ten or more
private duty nurses is considered a

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