Nursing

Association
in the
Philippines
Matelyn S. Oarga
BSN – 4A1
 ALUMNI
ASSOCIATIONS
 Objectives:

● The FIRST To unite and foster a bond of fellowship,

mutual understanding and cooperation
association a nurse
among alumni members all over the
joins upon
world. To strengthen and maintain high
graduation is the
standards of nursing profession through
Alumni
continuing education, research, networking
Association.
and sharing of resources among members.

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 PNA
The Philippine Nurses
Association
 Purpose:
● The PNA, was organized on
● To attain optimal level of
October 22, 1922 upon the
professionals standards.
initiation of Mrs. Anastacia
● To work for the welfare of
Giron Tupas.
member nurses
● To respond to the changing
● The first president of the
health needs of the
association was Mrs. Rosario
Philippine society.
Delgado.
● To establish linkages with
government, national and
● It was then called the
international agencies in the
Filipino Nurses Associations.
attainment of health goals
and welfare of member
nurses. 6
● The PNA was awarded the ● The PNA office is located in
Most Outstanding Accredited Kansas Ave. Malate, Manila.
Professional Organization by
the Professional Regulation
Commission in 2003 besting
40 other professional
associations and was five-
time nominee for the same
award.

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MISSION,
VISION
and
CORE
VALUES
MISSION VISION CORE VALUES
● Championing ● By 2030, PNA ● Love of God and
the global is the primary Country
competence, professional ● Caring
welfare, and association ● Quality and
positive and advancing the Excellence
professional welfare and ● Integrity
image of the development of ● Collaboration.
Filipino nurse. globally
competitive
Filipino nurses.

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 NLPGN
The National League
of Philippine
Government Nurses
● The NLPGN, is a duly incorporated
organization of professional nurses
employed by the government of the
Philippines.
● It was formerly known as the
Department of Health National
League of Nurses (DHNLN).
● It was founded on January 16, 1961
by Annie Sand.
● The NLPGN office is located in
Unit 958-959 Victoria de Manila
Condominium, Taft Avenue Corner
Malvar Street, Ermitae, Manila.
● The Annie Sand Leadership Award
is given to an outstanding nurse or
retiree who has contributed to the
improvement of nurses and nursing
in government agencies.
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Objectives:
1. To promote and maintain high
standards of nursing in government
agencies.
2. To address problems concerning nurses
and nursing through participation in
formulations of all policies, guidelines
programs and laws affecting nurses and
nursing practice in the Philippines.
3. To continuously upgrade professional
competence through research, training,
and scholarships grant both foreign and
local.
4. To collaborate with the government, non-
government and other allied professionals to
promote health care.
5. To foster national and international
goodwill among nurses.
6. To help advance the science and art of
nursing in the Philippines.
7. To recognize the exemplary performance
and accomplishments of members.
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Categories of membership:

1. Regular members – nurses employed in the government and retirees who have
rendered a minimum of five-year service in any government agency.

2. Life members- nurses who have been regular members for at least 3
consecutives years, and who have paid the required life membership.

3. Honorary members – are persons who have outstanding service to the cause of
nurses and nursing.

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Benefits of being a member:
1. May attend updates, seminars, conventions
organize by the organizations and earn continuing
education units for license renewal.
2. May be represented to the proper authorities on
matter concerning nursing practice.
3. May be recognized for exemplary performance –
Annie Sand Leadership Award.
4. May be given assistance – in cash or in kind –
when sick or when he/she becomes a victims of
calamities and national disasters.
5. May receive a copy of the NLPGN’s official
publication newsletter.
6. May vote and be voted upon
7. May avail a copy of its two published books
at a discounted price: The Administration of
Hospital Nursing Service in THE Philippine
Department of Health and Community Health
Nursing Services in the Philippine Department
of Health.
8. May be helped in the renewal of his/her
PRC license upon request.
9. May avail postgraduate scholarships offered
by DOH through recommendation of the
NLPGN.
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ANSAP
Association of
Nursing Service
Administrations
of the Philippines
● The ANSAP was founded in 1963 at St. Luke’s
Hospital by a group of private and public nursing
service administrations.

● The first president of the association was Mrs.

Rosita A. Furia (former chief nurse of the Quirino
Memorial Medical Center) in Quezon City.

● It was reorganized in 1973, by Dr. Perla Sanchez.

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MISSION,
VISION
and
CORE
VALUES
MISSION
● Valuing human life and recognizing its
diversity ,ANSAP is responsible to the nursing
profession, its patients, families, communities, and ● We are a financially sustainable organization .
partners in healthcare. Our growth is fueled by the expansion of our
● We are preferred around the world for our membership and our network of partners. We
competence in primary healthcare and service exercise utmost prudence in the utilization of our
management differentiated by our integrity and our resources.
own traditional Filipino value of compassion. ● We are recognized by out communities for our
● We collaborate with our partners in the promotion of self-less service.
safe and comprehensive healthcare. ● We promote a healthy work-life balance,
● We spearhead the intelligent application of advance espousing security of tenure and career
technologies in health maintenance, illness development among our employees.
prevention and containment for the benefit of the
greater populace. In pursuit of innovation in our field,
we will champion evidence-based nursing practice
and research.

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VISION
● ANSAP is the premier organization in
Nursing Practice and Development recognized
worldwide.

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CORE VALUES
GOD-CENTERED
INTEGRITY
COMMITMENT TO SERVICE
COMPASSION

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Objectives:
1. Provide dynamic leadership in the acquisition of knowledge and techniques in nursing
service administration.
2. Uphold the highest standards of professional ethics, integrity, and dedication to the cause of
nursing and nursing service administration
3. Imitate programs which will elevate members to the highest level of competence in nursing
administrative practice.
4. Keep abreast of latest research findings, initiate and conduct research and disseminate
results for the improvement of nursing practice.
5. Pool resources through collaborative action with other national nursing associations for the
promotion of professional, social and economic welfare of nursing.
6. Participate actively and stand outrageously in support of vital issues affecting public
welfare.

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 ADPCN
Association of Deans of
Philippine Colleges
of Nursing in the
Philippines
 ● Its main purpose is to promote,
elevate, and maintain le
● The Association was first
standards of clinical instruction
established in April 1959
program of nursing students
with Dean of Colleges of
und lo improve nursing service
Nursing as its members.
and facilities of the clinical
● In 1965 schools of nursing
field in hospitals and public
were included.
health agencies.

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MISSION
and
VISION
 MISSION VISION
1. To develop transformational leadership and We envision ourselves as the
management among all deans. association of deans, innovative,
2. To uphold code of ethics and create conducive, competent and empowered in
cultural and collegial relationship among deans.
leading institutions achieve
3. To build capabilities and creative credibility in
excellence in  nursing education for
research and instruction in the health profession.
4. To expand and sustain dynamic members and national and global development.
networks nationally and internationally.
5. To generate and maintain viable financial
capabilities.
6. To maintain responsible organizational structure and
systems in the association and network.

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 MNAP
The Military Nurses
Association of the
Philippines
On September 5, 1965 the MNAP
was officially organized in V. Luna
Hospital AFP in Quezon City by a
group of dynamic nurses and corps
officers both active, inactive and
retired who felt the need for putting
up a medium wherein they can
express their ideals and aspirations to
better serve their country.

The first military nurse was Brigadier

General Elvegia R. Mendoza

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MILITARY NURSE DUTIES:
● Military Nurses have similar duties as
Registered Nurses with a few exceptions.
● ­Military Nurses have a little more
responsibilities in terms of military standards.
● "In fact, a military nurse can be classified as
active duty, reserve, or hired as a civilian
employee."
● ­They require long term commitment depending
on their contract time.
● Military Nurses are likely to be sent abroad at a
combat hospital
● ­Once graduated with a Registered Nursing
Degree the nurses may enroll as officers in the
military
OBJECTIVES:
1. To establish and maintain highest
standard of military nursing in the
AFP, both in peace and in war
2. To develop the social, cultural and
educational wellbeing of it’s
member in line with the current
trends in nursing.
3. To cultivate and maintain the spirit
of camaraderie and promote the
general welfare of it’s member
4. To encourage active participation in
the activates of both local and
national nursing organizations
5. To publish periodicals and bulletins
as sources of information and
guidance.
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OBJECTIVES:
6. To establish a code of conduct to
it’s member.
7. To promote reciprocity between
military nurses of the Philippines
and those allied countries.
8. To undertake activities that are
geared toward social action and
community development.
- The MNAP is doing share in
programs of national interest
like the family planning,
nutrition programs,
environmental sanitation, and
tree planting.
- The current President is Col.
Alma Bella P. Ancheta, NC
(Ret.)
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OHCAP
The Occupational
Health Nurses
Association of the
Philippines
● On November 21, 1950 ● On September 02, 2000,
the Industrial Nursing ● On September 20, 1969 OHNAP signed a
Unit of the Philippines this unit was renamed by sisterhood alliance with
was organized through OHCAP. the Okayama (Japan)
the initiative of Mrs. Occupational Health
Magdalena Valenzuela of ● On August 19, 1964, Ms. Nursing Association
the DOH, for the purpose Anita Santos of Jardine represented by Prof.
of promoting friendship Davies was elected as the Yukiko Okui and Ms.
and to organize nurses in first president. Etsuko Fukouka during
industrial and the First Philippine-Japan
commercial enterprises. Occupational Health
Nursing Friendship
Meeting held at the
Manila Midtown Hotel.

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Objectives
● Contribute to the promotion of health
through the conservation of the
employee’s health and that of his family
and the community.
● Keep pace with modern techniques in
occupational health nursing in order to
promote the advancement of nursing
knowledge thereby improving the quality
and scope of nursing in Occupational
Health setting.
● Work for the enactment of laws affecting
the Occupational Health practice.
● Foster better understanding among
Occupational Health Nurse in particular
and among nurses in general.
● Maintain the standard of Occupational
Health Nursing through continuing
nursing education.
● Provide means whereby problems of
common interest within the scope of
Occupational Health management maybe
threshed out for the benefit of all.
● Actively participate in environmental
preservation, community services and
social awareness.
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Philippine Association
of Public Health
Nursing Faculty
● September 1961, the organization was organized, and is 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 growth.

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 APDNPP
Association Of Private Duty
Nurse
Practitioners Of The
Philippines
● Perla B. Sanchez, R.N.,MAN, PhD
- Refounding president of ANSAP
- She is a Nursing Director of a private Children’s
- Hospital and active member of PNA

● The birth of the organization did not give rise to a growth of expected proportion
as the leaders who had spearheaded the organization left one by one for abroad.

● In 1967, a group of chief nurses/directors of nursing service of government and

private hospitals and community health organizations in metro manila got
together and refounded the Association of Nursing Service Administrators of the
Philippines (ANSAP)

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● As a PDN it is beneficial if you become a member of an organization such as
APDNPP.
● This will help you and your clients the reassurance that your practice is well
regulated.
● An active membership means that you are up to date with any advancement and
improvements in the PDN profession.
● To become a member a nurse must undergo several tests and interviews in order to
make sure that she meets the organization standards.
● Training courses such as BLS and BFA, IVTTP, Water Safety Training Course

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ORNAP
OPERATING
ROOM NURSES
OF THE
PHILIPPINES
LIFE PURPOSE VISION MISSION STATEMENT
To promote the highest STATEMENT ● We commit to: Develop/cultivate
the highest professional standard
professional standard of We envision ourselves
in perioperative nursing through
Perioperative Nursing. as an organization of education and research activities.
competent and dynamic ● Collaborate with health care
partners and other associations
perioperative nurses
for development and training.
committed to ● Sustain a harmonic professional
innovation and relationship among members.
provision of optimum ● Enhance value centered decision
making strategies.
perioperative services
locally and
internationally.

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 PNSI
Psychiatric Nursing
Specialists
Foundation of the
Philippines
● Psychiatric nursing is an
interpersonal process whereby the
professional nurse practitioner
assists an individual, family a
community to promote mental
health, to prevent or cope with the
experience of mental illness and
suffering, if necessary, and to find
meaning in these experiences.
● The Psychiatric Nursing Specialists
Foundation of the Philippines Inc. views
mental health and illness as states of
adaptation used by the individual in coping
with the circumstances in life. Every
individual has areas of relative health and
illness at a given moment and adapts
according to his/her capacity. When an
individuals behavior moves toward the
direction of mental illness, therapeutic
interpersonal assistance is one vehicle
which facilitates the restoration of his
health.
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Objectives
● To provide therapeutic and supportive services needed to help the client
and his family in the former’s relearning to live in the community.
● To help the client identify and develop his inherent potentials and latent
abilities and to utilize these in has efforts toward self-reliance and
success.
● To undertake research studies in the field of mental health and
psychiatric nursing
● To offer educational programs in mental health-psychiatric nursing

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Services offered by the PNSI
Nursing Supportive Care b. Adult Day Care- main goal of the
a. Child Day Care – to create program is the provision of a healthy,
an opportunity for each therapeutic milieu to its adult client by
child client to develop giving him/her the opportunity to
develop into his/her full potential thus
emotionally, socially,
facilitating his/her integration into the
intellectually, physically
relevant social system particularly his
and spiritually. home and the larger community.

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Services offered by the PNSI
2. Continuing Education:
The PNSI sponsors regular seminar
workshops in the fields of mental
health and psychiatric nursing such
as groups dynamics, integrating
psychiatric nursing concepts,
psychosocial nursing and or
teaching psychiatric nursing, parent
teaching programs and crisis
intervention
3. Psychological Testing and
Evaluation:
The PNSI offers psychological testing
and evaluation which involve the
administration of a battery of
psychological test to the client to
determine his aptitude, abilities and
personality traits
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Services offered by the PNSI
4. Nursing researchers –
Periodic nursing research studies
and explorations on this field are
undertaken for professional growth
and development.
5. Training and Extension Services –
Training and extension programs and
sharing of various development
programs are offered in the areas of
education and practice through affiliation
program in collaboration with schools
and other agencies.
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Services offered by the PNSI
6. Library – the PNSI library
facilities are open to members and
non-members.
7. Publications – the official publication
of the PNSI are Perspectives in Mental
Health Psychiatric Nursing,
Proceedings: First Seminar Workshop on
Teaching Mental Health Psychiatric
Nursing, and PNSI History.
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 CNGP
The Catholic Nurses
Guild of the
Philippines
VISION MISSION

We envisioned CNGP ● Promote spiritual, ethico-moral and

as a “living witness professional growth as health care
to Christ’s love” provider.
● Participate actively in the deliberation of
issues affecting life.
● Strengthen relationships with local and
international health agencies/
organizations/schools.
● To render socio- pastoral care to all our
stakeholders.

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Year Established: August 7, 1956

Organizational Structure: The

CNGP is governed by a Board
composing 11 Board Members who
meet every month and elected every
2 years.

The CNGP is composed of

representatives/presidents of the
local chapters of different
hospitals/institutions accredited by
the national organization.

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 IRNUP
Integrated Registered
Nurses of the
Philippines
As early as the 1960s, the
concept of integration was
already being discussed by
many nurse leaders and various
nursing groups.
What is Integration?
Is a means of bringing together
all individual registered nurses
The purpose and objectives of
IRNUP:
- To provide a medium through
which Filipino registered nurse
can share their common interests
working in a unified manner to
develop the contribution of
nursing to the health of the
Filipino people.
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IRNUP Objectives
1. Provision of direction and guidance in
nursing development in the country.
2. The improvement of nursing practice
through education and research
3. Serving as a unified voice for nurses
and nursing nationally
4. The improvement of the professional,
social and economic positions of nurses
5. Serving as the reference/referral center
for information on nurses and nursing
6. Provision of forum through meetings
and and conventions where they may
come in contact with their peers,
exchange information's and seek support.
7. Representation of nurses and nursing
in any forum requiring nursing input and
be the authoritative voice for nursing
8. Working with health and health-
related sectors in the pursuit of achieving
health goals influencing Philippines.
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THANK
YOU 