Filipino Nurses News & Updates

A number of hospitals in Northern Ireland are planning to hire more than 600 nurses from the Philippines and India to address shortage of qualified health professionals. About 622 will be recruited, mainly from the Philippines, by 2020,…

Three or four Filipino nurses held hostage by terrorist group Islamic State remain missing and are feared dead, Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr said in an interview Monday. This comes a day after he received eight Filipino…

A forum for Filipino nurses who are working as domestic workers in Hong Kong will be held to provide them with understanding on opportunities to work in their field, Labor Attaché Jalilo dela Torre said. Dela Torre said the forum, to be…

There are plenty of firsts in a Duterte presidency. He will be the first president to come from Mindanao, the first to rise from a local executive to the country's chief executive, and the first to file his candidacy after the mandated…

Construction of new hospitals in Kuwait usher the demand for more Filipino nurses to work in the country. According to Elsa Villa, president of the Philippine Association of Service Exporters, Inc. (PASEI), Kuwait labor minister and a…

Germany is reportedly looking at the Philippines as its main source to hire up to 200,000 nurses for employment. According to Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz, nurses specializing in geriatric care are…

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has issued a warning to Filipino nurses and caregivers looking for jobs in Japan not to engage with private recruitment agencies. POEA administrator Hans Leo Cacdac said in a…

The Philipine ambassador to Qatar has confirmed that close to two dozen Filipino nurses have been laid off at the country's government-operated healthcare centers. In a television interview at ABS-CBN network ambassador Wilfredo Santos…

A total of 306 out of 790 passed the special nurse licensure examination given by the Board of Nursing in certain cities in the Middle East, according to the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) on Friday. The exams were conducted in…

A Singapore court has sentenced a Filipino nurse to four months in prison for posting inflammatory comments on Facebook against Singaporeans and lying to police investigators. Ello Ed Mundsel Bello, 28, earlier pleaded guilty to three…