Far Eastern University Institute of Nursing

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motto = Hominem Non Morbum Cura (Treat the Man, Not the Disease)
established = June 1955The FEU Advocate - University Profile]
dean = Annabelle R. Borromeo, RN, PhD, CNS
colors = Peach
campus = Far Eastern University - Manila
city = Manila
state = Metro Manila
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The Far Eastern University Institute of Nursing is one of the top performing nursing schools in the Philippines in terms of Philippine Nurse Licensure Examination performance and employment into various nursing settings. It currently offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree that qualifies the graduate to take the Philippine Board Licensure Examination. Its Master of Arts in Nursing (MAN) program is one of the best Master's program in the Philippines and in Asia. Backed up by its new Dean; Annabelle R. Borromeo, RN, PhD, CNS, strict selection and retention policies on students, technological investment, and master's prepared faculty, the FEU-IN is one of the current driving force both in nursing practice and education in the Philippines. FEU-IN is also dubbed as the Philippine's most technologically equipped institute of nursing in the country because of its Virtual Integrated Nursing Education Simulation (VINES) Laboratory; the first nursing virtual laboratory in the Philippines, second in Asia.

History of the Institute of Nursing

The Institute of Nursing in 1955. Initially it offered a three-year diploma program leading to a non-degree Graduate in Nursing (GN), with Teofista G. Villarica as its first principal.

By second semester a two year Advance professional Program (supplemental program) was offered, a post-basic program designed to provide graduates of the GN program opportunities to broaden their knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the profession. Lucrecia Llanera was the first directress of the new program. Most of the enrolees were nurses holding important positions in different health agencies and schools of nursing,

In 1960, Felicidad D. Elegado was appointed principal of both programs. About this time, the School of Nursing was elevated to the status of an Institute with Elegado as first dean. To upgrade the curriculum, the three-year course was converted to a five-year baccalaureate program leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).

Upon the retirement of Dean Egelado in 1978, the then Institute secretary, Lydia A. Palaypay, assumed deanship. The five-year baccalaureate program was converted to the revised four-year BSN curriculum. Under her administration, the nursing curriculum became more competency-based and community health-centered, closely attuned to the needs of contemporary Philippine society. The reoriented curriculum is believed to be responsible for the Institution's near perfect passing rate of its graduates in yearly licensure examination.

Upon the appointment of Dean Palaypay as the vice president for Academic Affairs in 1994, Prof. Norma M. Dumadag took over as dean of the Institute. Under her stewardship, the Institute has attained Level II PAASCU standards of CMO No. 27 series of 1998, the BSN curriculum was reconfigured effective SY 1998-1999, which required the student to undergo two years of Associate in Health Science Education (ASHE).

Because of the consistent and sterling performance of nursing graduates in the licensure exams over the years and after complying with the CHED's requirements on Graduate Education, the Institute of Graduate Studies was certified to offer a master's degree in Nursing effective SY 2002-2003.

Graduates of the Institute of Nursing occupy key positions in different health institutions in the country such as the UP PGH, St Luke's Medical Center, Makati Medical Center, National Kidney Center, and Philippine heart Center; as well as abroad (such as in the United States, Canada, Europe and the Middle East).

The FEU-IN is the pioneer in virtual nursing laboratory in the Philippines through its Virtual Integrated Nursing Education Simulation (VINES) Laboratory established in December 2006 under the Deanship of Dean Borromeo with Mr. Cyrill Consuelo as its first VINES Coordinator.

Previous Deans of the Institute of Nursing

*Teofista G. Villarica (1955 - 1960) Principal of three-year diploma program leading to a non-degree Graduate in Nursing (GN)
*Lucrecia Llanera (1955 - 1960) Directress of two year Advance professional Program
*Felicidad D. Elegado (1960 - 1978) School of Nursing elevated to Institute status, first dean of the Institute of Nursing
*Dean Lydia A. Palaypay (1978 - 1994)
*Prof. Norma M. Dumadag (1994 - 2006)
*Dean Annabelle R. Borromeo (2006 - present)

ANNABELLE REYES BORROMEO, RN, PhD, CCRN, CNS, CPAN

Dean Borromeo obtained her basic nursing degree from the UP-PGH School of Nursing. She obtained her Master of Science in Nursing Degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas, and her Doctorate in Philosophy, major in nursing, minor in statistics from the Texas Woman’s University in Houston, Texas.

After working for 2 years as a Rural Health Unit Nurse in Cebu and as a Clinical Instructor in Baguio, she left for the U.S. where she embarked on a career in Critical Care Nursing.

Her leadership skills were soon recognized as she moved from staff nurse, unit teacher, head nurse, and eventually director of nursing in various health care institutions in the U.S.

She has received various certifications. She has a certification in critical care nursing from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, a certification in post anesthesia nursing from the American Society of Post Anesthesia Nurses, and is a licensed Clinical Nurse Specialist in the State of Texas as well as here in the Philippines. She is also a member of the prestigious honor society for nursing, the Sigma Theta Tau.

She has obtained many honors and awards and has written books, book chapters, magazine and journal articles. The most recent article was published in the newsmagazine Newsbreak which described the decline of nursing education in the Philippines. She has been listed in the “Who’s Who in American Nursing” and “Who’s Who in American Nursing Education” since 1993.After working 30 years in the United States, she decided to come home to the Philippines in 2000 to “give back” to her country of birth.

She became the first Chief Nursing Officer of the Asian Hospital and Medical Center in Alabang, Muntinlupa, the first new hospital to be built in the last 25 years. Currently, she is Senior Consultant of her very own consulting firm, helping hospitals with organizational development and helping individual students pass the necessary licensure examinations. Presently, she is a Quality Consultant for Joint Commission on International Accreditation (JCIA) for the Division of Nursing at St. Luke’s Medical Center and also the Dean of the Institute of Nursing at the Far Eastern University.

She is married to an orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Andy Borromeo and has one son, Andrew.Her life’s mission is to teach, motivate, and inspire.

Vision/Mission Statement

Among the schools offering nursing courses, FEU Institute of Nursing will be the choice school in the next five (5) years because it will produce graduates who can function and practice independently in any setting and not only looking at employment as the sole center career opportunity after graduation.

The Institute of Nursing aims to develop competent nurse graduates who are God-fearing, nationalistic and responsive to the changing needs of society - local, national and international.

The Institute is committed to the provision of quality of education through a program of study that strives for academic excellence and the development of nursing student as a total person.

The educational program is given substance in a competency based, community health-centered curriculum complemented with co and extracurricular activities of socio-cultural and spiritual nature in-and-off campus.).Official Website of Far Eastern University - Institute Profile]

Academic Programs

*Associate in Health Science Education

*Bachelor of Science in Nursing

*Master of Arts in Nursing

(Note: 3rd & 4th year of Medical Technology & Physical Therapy to be taken at the Far Eastern University Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation Campus – FEU Medical Center)Official Website of Far Eastern University - Institute Profile]

Affiliated Hospitals

Below is a list of some of the hospitals in the Philippines currently accredited and affiliated with the Far Eastern University - Institute of Nursing wherein students from the Institute are being trained and supervised by qualified Clinical Instructors from the university and nursing theories are applied as part of delivery of nursing care.

Metropolitan Manila Area

=Number of Successful Examinees - June 2007 [http://www.feuadvocate.com/advocaterates/passingrates_main.htm|The FEU Advocate - Board Examination Rates and Results] ] =

FEU-IN Virtual Integrated Nursing Education Simulation Laboratory (VINES)

The "Primus Interpares" or first among equals in the Philippines to have a real nursing virtual lab uniquely designed as a simulated hospital proudly carries the [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gold_standard "Gold Standard"] the yardstick by which all other nursing skills laboratories are measured. The hospital set-up closely approximates the standards of the Joint Commission, the leading health care accrediting body in the USA, and other international hospital and infection standards in terms of bed-to-sink ratios, hospital door widths, functionality and work and patient flow. In addition, Austco, the leader in quality nurse call systems, has partnered with Far Eastern University to house the only advanced, cutting-edge nurse call system in the Philippines. With the Nurse Call System, students will learn to respond to patient calls within two minutes of the call, enhancing the student's customer service and interpersonal or relational skills.

FEU-IN's Position Paper on the Nursing Leakage

POSITION PAPER ON THE NURSING LEAKAGE FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITYInstitute of Nursing "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." “The day we stop living, is the day we keep silent about things that matter.” -Martin Luther King, Jr. We, the Dean, Associate Deans, faculty, and students, would like to add our collective voice to the clamor for truth and justice to prevail in the investigation of the leakage issue in the recent Nurse Licensure Examination. We contend that the results of the examination should not have been released prematurely without all of the questions about the examination’s integrity being answered. We strongly object to the application of a statistical solution to a problem that is fundamentally moral or ethical in nature. Cheating is cheating, and no amount of statistical justification will correct it. Whether people benefited or not from the leaked questions, is immaterial. The fact is, the Board of Nursing and the Professional Regulations Commission found enough proof of a leakage, therefore, the tests, or at least, Tests III and V, should be invalidated. We believe that the reasoning behind the use of a statistical treatment to “right” the test is faulty. Statistics used are only as good as the soundness of the thinking behind the use of the statistics. We therefore disagree with the formula used by the Board of Nursing as described in Resolution No. 31, Series of 2006 to compute a score for Test V, because scores obtained in the four tests do not, and cannot, be reflective of competency in Neuro-Psychiatric Nursing, which is the aspect of nursing tested by Test V. The NLE was designed to test the knowledge and critical thinking aspects of a beginning nurse in four general areas of practice: Community Health Nursing (CHN) (Test I), Maternal and Child Health Nursing (MCN) (Test II), Medical-Surgical Nursing (Tests III and IV), and Neuro-Psychiatric Nursing (Test V). The Test, with its five parts, must necessarily test a representative sample of competencies that a beginning Registered Nurse MUST demonstrate to practice SAFE care that prevents complications and does no harm to the patient. We have consulted our students, and they have signified their intention to re-take Tests III and V or the entire test, if only to prove that they, indeed deserve to pass. However, our students are calling for the following: That the questions be 1. objective and answers can be backed by two known references2. based on a competency framework3. developed by a new set of examiners and that the tests be administered4. at no cost to them5. with at least 2 months’ notice to enable them to adequately prepare for the examination. While we recommend the above, we recognize that these solutions are short-term. We believe, that the more important issue is to find long-term solutions, rather than a quick-fix approach, to assuring the integrity of future nursing board examinations: First, we call for a review of the screening process for potential Board of Nursing members. Second, we call for potential members of the Board to be screened for item writing competencies and for the top quality of integrity. Third, we call for a thoughtful and bias-free method of developing questions, building a data bank of questions, and ensuring that the questions that are asked are:•Objective and appropriately referenced•Not subject to religious or cultural bias In line with the above, we also suggest that the Board of Nursing release a current list of references that are used as basis for formulating questions and determining the answers to the questions. Fourth, we ask review centers to put a stop to the practice of requiring their reviewees to memorize questions and share the questions with the review center. We also ask for stricter regulation of review centers and their practices. Fifth, we call on all nursing students who “passed” the 2006 June NLE to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country. It is now a matter of pride that we redeem ourselves in the best possible and most honorable way. Now is the time to practice the dictum, “Country first, before self.” Let there be no doubt as to the legitimacy of your using the “Registered Nurse” title. The eyes of the world are upon us. Let us acquit ourselves with honor and dignity.

Prominent Institute Alumni

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