Far Eastern University Institute of Nursing

The Far Eastern University Institute of Nursing is one of the top performing nursing school in the Philippines in terms of Board Licensure 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, Ph.D, 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.

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).

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.).

Academic Programs

 * Associate in Health Science Education leading to Nursing Medical Technology and Physical Therapy


 * 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)

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.

Student Organizations

 * Institute of Nursing Music Ministry (FEU-INMM)
 * Institute of Nursing Theater Arts Committee (FEU-INTAC)
 * Institute of Nursing Red Cross Youth Council (FEU-RCYC)

Student Publication

 * The Lamp

Academic Performance
The Institute's graduate student nurses are required to undergo the examination administered by the Philippine Government in order to attain Registered Nurse status in order to legally practice the prescribed nursing profession according to nursing standards as established by the Board of Nursing of the Philippine Regulation Commission which is held every June and December of each year.

Number of Successful Examinees - June 2007

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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 "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.