The College of Nursing of St. Paul University Iloilo offers a 9-semester nursing program aimed at the formation of a professional nurse towards a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree and the acquisition of music and art competencies as a nursing intervention utilized in the healing profession.
In general, the college imparts nursing education centered on Christian values, and basically ensures that the nursing graduates from their university are compassionate and competent care-givers, who are able to think creatively and critically in the application of the nursing process, as they deliver various levels of care involving clients across the life span at any given setting. In addition, a concrete sense of leadership is also inculcated among their students.
The Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres began their apostolic activities in Iloilo by establishing St. Paul’s Hospital in 1911. Their primary aim was to care for the poor and the sick, However, the care of the poor and the sick was not the only apostolic mission of the Sisters of St. Paul; they have also been founded for the purpose of training and educating the young. So it was, with the great desire emboldened by the formative component of their mission, coupled with the pressing need of the hospital for trained competent Catholic nurses, the Sisters under the leadership of Mother Josephine de Jesus opened the School of Nursing in June, 1946. Seventy (70) students were admitted into the first Graduate Nurse Training Program, sixty-eight (68) females and two (2) males, and early sign of the openness and the universality which is a mark of St. Paul. Sr. Marie Louise Limbaga, SPC became Dean from 1946-1947.
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