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  2. (PDF) The Lived Experience of Filipino Nurses' Work in COVID-19

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  4. (PDF) Filipino Nurses' Attitudes and Cultural Competency in Caring for

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  5. Why Are Filipinos Drawn to Nursing? RN Explains

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  6. How Filipino Nurses Have Propped Up America's Medical System

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  1. How Filipino Nurses Propped Up America's Medical System

    Since the early 20th century, the U.S. has relied on Filipino nurses to mend staffing gaps in America's patchwork healthcare system.

  2. When the Reporter Asks You Why There Are So Many Filipino Nurses in the

    When the reporter asks you why there were so many Filipino nurses migrating to the US beginning in the 1960s, you explain that a confluence of Great Society programs, social movements, and new immigration policies increased the demand for nursing services, resulted in nursing shortages, and encouraged the immigration of foreign-trained nurses.

  3. Frontliners Then and Now: The State of Filipino Nurses

    (Note: The first version of this essay appeared as "Fighting for Filipino Nurses" last year on "Of Brush Pens and IV Needles", my WordPress…

  4. PDF Essential Workers or Exports: Filipino Nurses in the Era of

    The Philippines responds to COVID-19: bars nurses from applying for new contracts abroad. The Philippines' recommended ratio of nurses to pa-tients is 1:12, but the actual ratio of nurses to patients varies from 1:50 to 1:80, depending on the region of the country.11 A ratio of 1:50 nurses to patients is a significantly higher nursing burden ...

  5. Advancing Filipino Healthcare: The Plight of Filipino Nurses in a

    Globally, nurses' well-being and morale are low, and a substantial percentage of them plan to leave the field ( Alibudbud, 2022 ). Nearly 4,500 posts at public hospitals in the Philippines go empty because certified Filipino nurses are reluctant to work there due to low pay, long hours, and a lack of benefits ( Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, 2023 ). Labrague (2021) also examined the ...

  6. PDF The Trajectory of Filipino Nurse Migrants in The United States and Canada

    Conclusion Abstract nes have led the pack of workforce nursing migrants in developed nations. Numerous studies have worked to nderstand the push and pulls factors leading to Filipino nurse migration. This research seeks to add to the discourse by shedding light on questions and enabling us to understand what Filipino nurses go through, the ...

  7. Why are there so many Filipino nurses in the U.S.?

    Many Filipino nurses, already trained in American-style nursing, came to the U.S. Then, in 1965, the Immigration and Nationality Act was passed, which allowed a larger number of immigrants from around the world to come to the U.S.

  8. Advancing Filipino Healthcare: The Plight of Filipino Nurses in a

    This commentary explores the future of nursing in the Philippines, with a focus on post-COVID-19 solutions to address exist-ing challenges. The Philippines, known for exporting nurses worldwide, faces urgent issues such as understaffing, inadequate infrastructure, low wages, and limited educational opportunities within its healthcare system. The COVID-19 pandemic inten-si fied these challenges ...

  9. Why Are There So Many Filipino Nurses in California?

    California is home to the largest Filipino-American population in the nation with over 1.6 million of Filipino descent. In the process of becoming essential to California, Filipino nurses have changed the definition of what we describe as care by bringing their own cultural practices and sensibilities to the bedside.

  10. 'I chose to stay for a while': Aspirations and capabilities in the

    Abstract Focusing on Filipino nurses, who are situated in a culture of migration where nursing is seen to pave way for overseas migration, this article explores the (non)migration decision-making process and the temporal and agentic dimensions of the decision to stay. While regimes of mobility may restrict or enable cross-border movements through immigration regulations, this article focuses ...

  11. Advancing Filipino Healthcare: The Plight of Filipino Nurses in a

    This commentary explores the future of nursing in the Philippines, with a focus on post-COVID-19 solutions to address existing challenges. The Philippines, known for exporting nurses worldwide, faces urgent issues such as understaffing, inadequate infrastructure, ...

  12. The global Filipino nurse: An integrative review of Filipino nurses

    Filipino nurses experienced differences in the practice of nursing in terms of work process, roles and autonomy. Moreover, they encountered challenges such as work-related discrimination and technical difficulties within the organisation.

  13. From imperialism to inpatient care: Work differences of Filipino and

    In Empire of Care, the first book‐length study of the history of Filipino nurses in the United States, Choy ( 2003) asserts that the initiation of Filipino nurse migration dates all the way back to the American imperialism of the Philippines (1898-1946) that included bringing in westernized ideals into government, education and healthcare.

  14. How Filipino Nurses Have Propped Up America's Medical System

    Read historian Catherine Ceniza Choy's essay on the mortality statistics of Filipino nurses. Watch the Caretakers documentary series on PBS, which tells the story of Filipino-Americans on the frontlines. Read why Filipino-American nurses dread another COVID-19 wave, via the New York Times.

  15. The global Filipino nurse: An integrative review of Filipino nurses

    Results: Filipino nurses experienced differences in the practice of nursing in terms of work process, roles and autonomy. Moreover, they encountered challenges such as work-related discrimination ...

  16. Immigration of Filipino Nurses to the United States Essay

    The migration of Filipino nurses to the United States in the twentieth century has raised many concerns as to the cause of such a trend.

  17. Filipino Nursing Essay

    1976 Words8 Pages. 1.0 Introduction. Filipino nurses have been the most in demand nurses around the globe for the reason that they are highly skilled and because of their passion to deliver quality health care service. Thus, they go abroad in the pursuit of having a better and secured job, a higher pay, and greater opportunities for their career.

  18. Philippine Nurse Migration: Assessing Vulnerabilities and Accessing

    The qualitative study described in this chapter uses semi-structured, open-ended interviews with Filipino nurses working in different parts of the world to elicit exploratory perspectives and understand respondents' views on nurse migration and policy. Top of page

  19. The State and the Globalisation of Care: The Philippines and ...

    Abstract. Nurse migration, particularly from the Philippines, has attracted significant attention in the literature, which largely discusses the issues of brain-drain, rights violations, human agency, structural determinants and impact of the exodus. This essay argues that the Philippine state, in coping with neo-liberal restructuring, has been ...

  20. There'S No Place Like Home: Capturing the Experiences of Filipino

    As cited by Garcia et al. (2018), some Filipino nurses opted to stay in their workplace due to various reasons like their strong-willed motivation despite the many challenges they may have faced.

  21. Longer Hours, Smaller Numbers: Filipino Nurses and Mass Migration

    BY JULIA ABU The nurse population in the Philippines is declining — and statistics point to low wages and intense overseas recruitment as potential culprits. Low pay and minimal benefits have driven Filipino nurses to speak out. In Metro Manila, private hospitals pay nurses as low as 12,000 pesos ($215) a month, according […]

  22. FILIPINO NURSES AMIDST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

    This made the Philippines the largest supplier of nurses to OECD countries [ 2 ]. The high nurse-to-patient ratio and low wages were among the common reasons for Filipino nurses to work in other countries [ 2 ].

  23. Managing health worker migration: a qualitative study of the Philippine

    Background The emigration of skilled nurses from the Philippines is an ongoing phenomenon that has impacted the quality and quantity of the nursing workforce, while strengthening the domestic economy through remittances. This study examines how the development of brain drain-responsive policies is driven by the effects of nurse migration and how such efforts aim to achieve mind-shifts among ...