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By Sheila Crisostomo
The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) yesterday said the number of Filipino nurses who have sought employment in the United States during the first quarter of 2009 has gone down by 10.5 percent.
By Yong Chavez, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau
Filipino caregivers are helping the oldest person in the world live longer.
At 115, African American Gertrude Baines is officially the world’s oldest person since the January 2, 2009, death of Portuguese woman Maria de Jesus, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
By Bonna Johnson - THE TENNESSEAN.COM
By now, Kenneth Hegna should be working as an operating room nurse at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital in West Tennessee, where he was offered a job nearly two years ago.
A fraudster using the Internet to offer non-existent nursing jobs in London was finally arrested while claiming money deposited by one of his victims at a pawnshop in Manila.
New nurses are advised not to limit their job hunting abroad to the United States as opportunities for healthcare professionals are abundant in other countries like the Middle East and the United Kingdom.
