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The bill would replace the 2002 Nursing Act with a new law that sets a minimum salary for new government nurses, adds mandatory health‑insurance and housing benefits, creates career‑advancement pathways, and requires the government to plan and monitor the nursing workforce.

The proposed New Philippine Nursing Practice Act aims to raise nurses’ pay, set safe staffing levels, create a national database of nurses, and establish a board that will oversee licensing, advanced‑practice training, and career progression.

The bill proposes a new Philippine Nursing Practice Act that would replace the 2002 nursing law, create a Board of Nursing, set a minimum entry salary, require a 1‑to‑10 nurse‑to‑patient ratio, and establish advanced‑practice nursing and a national nursing workforce database.

The New Philippine Nursing Practice Act proposes higher entry salaries, a 1‑to‑10 nurse‑to‑patient staffing rule, a national data system to track nurses, mandatory service for scholarship graduates, and new training funds for advanced‑practice nurses.

The bill creates a new Nursing Practice Act that sets up a nursing board, defines advanced nursing roles, guarantees a salary floor, and establishes a data system to plan nursing staff, all aimed at improving health care across the Philippines.

The bill creates a new nursing law that raises salaries, sets staffing ratios, creates career‑advancement tracks, and gives nurses legal tools to refuse unsafe work, all funded through the national budget.