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Nursing Theorist

Cecilia Laurente •Local nursing theorist in the Philippines, who focused her works on helping a patient through systems specifically the family. •She has a publication entitled "Categorization of Nursing activities as Observed in Medical Surgical Ward Units in Selected Government and Private Hospitals in Metro Manila

•She became a dean of the College of Nursing in UP Manila from 1996-2002

• Theory of nursing practice and career In the recent study of Laurente, she states that another entry point of helping the patient is though the family, when nurses can be of great assistance to prevent at the very beginning serious complications. The nurse can help strengthen the family’s term of knowledge, skills, and attitude through effective communication, employed informative, psychotherapeutic, modeling, behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, and/or hypnotic techniques are summarized and evaluated.

Carmelita Divinagracia • Finished her Masteral degree in Nursing in 1975 and a doctoral degree holder in 2001 • She has been lauded for developing the art and competency of teaching nursing. • She has lectured and written about her work as a nurse and how she has used her hands-on experience to develop better ways to teach nursing. • Her love for nursing and her dedication to carve out learning tools for nursing students has been a commendable and rare field of discipline.

Carmelita Divinagracia • As a teacher, she could not be anything else but a perfect thesis adviser. She has teamed up with the Commission on Higher Education for the drafting of a higher standard of competency in nursing schools in the Philippines. • She was the former president of the Association of Deans of Philippine Colleges of Nursing (ADPCN) and the dean of UERMMMC College of Nursing. She is also a member of CHED’s Technical Committee on Nursing Education. On 2008, Dean Divinagracia received the Anastacia Giron Tupas Award.