A nurse checks on a patient who has recovered from COVID-19 as he donates plasma at a hospital in Manila. (Maria Tan / AFP/Getty Images) After decades of exporting its nurses to other countries, the ...

MANILA, Philippines – Nurses have become one of the Philippines' top exports, helping fill shortages of caregivers at hospitals around the globe. But credentials for thousands of would-be nurses are ...

New Filipino nurses place their hands on their chests during an oath-taking ceremony for new professional nurses at a 2010 convention in the Philippines. New Filipino nurses place their hands on their ...

A New York federal judge ordered a nursing agency and recruiter to pay $1.56 million on Tuesday, for threatening the Filipino nurses they brought to the U.S. with large fines if they prematurely left ...

Henry Ford applied to the Philippines in the fall and received permission in mid-December to hire 500 nurses to staff its facilities. Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When Felice Abad ...

The need for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic escalated to such an extent that nurse Rosary Celaya Castro-Olege came out of retirement to join the frontlines.

When John returned to Canada after spending a month and a half in the Philippines, he said he felt a mix of emotions. The ...

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LOS ANGELES — Catherine Rubio had planned on retiring from a 30-year full-time nursing career in the second half of 2020. But shortly after stay-at-home orders were issued in Los Angeles County ...

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