Inhibition against practice of nursing by unregistered persons.
Section 10
SEC. 10. Inhibition against practice of nursing by unregistered persons.—Unless exempt from registration as hereinafter provided, no person shall practice the profession of nursing in the Philippine Islands without having previously obtained the proper certificate of registration from the Board of Examiners for Nurses. A person shall be deemed practising the profession of nursing, within the meaning of this section, who shall, for " compensation or reward, either direct or indirect to himself or other person, perform nursing services, that is, give bedside care or treatments; administer medicines or attend and take care of sick persons in their houses, or be employed as graduate nurse in any hospital, institution, school, office, corporation or society, either public or private, or engage as instructor in any training school for nurses; but this provision shall not apply to student nurses practising in any legally chartered school or college of nursing, or in any clinic or hospital under the direction of a professor of such school or college or of a physician or dental surgeon of such clinic or hospital; nor shall this section be construed to interfere with the legitimate practice of physicians, surgeons or midwives in conformity with the provisions of the Medical Law.