Filipino nurses are reportedly choosing other countries over the United States for employment. “The deepening recession in America has clearly diminished the desire of some Filipino nurses to seek employment there,” said former senator Ernesto Herrera, secretary general of the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP).

A Filipina nurse has filed charges against a hospital for allegedly forcing her to assist in a late-term abortion procedure in Brooklyn, New York City.

By Emilia Narni J. David
With the additional 32,000 new nurses who passed the recent licensure examinations, recruiters are worried that many would not be able to immediately find jobs in other countries due to the requirement of two or three years experience in tertiary hospitals.

By Charlie Lagasca
An initial batch of 15 nurses from this landlocked province is bound for employment in northern Spain’s Bizkaia (Vizcaya) province as a result of a sisterhood agreement signed between this province and its Spanish namesake.

By Llanesca T. Panti
Spain, despite suffering from the global economic crisis, was still in need of foreign nurses including Filipinos, the Department of Foreign Affairs announced Wednesday.