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  2. Nursing in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Nursing in the Philippines is provided by professionally trained nurses, who also provide a quarter of the world's overseas nurses. Every year, some 20,000 nurses work in other countries. [1] Nurses in the Philippines are licensed by the Professional Regulatory Commission.

  3. History of Filipino nurses in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1907, formalized nursing education patterned on the U.S. curriculum was established in the Philippines to train nurses there. A shortage of nurses was increasingly urgent due to the epidemics of tuberculosis, typhoid and other communicable disease and the start of World War I.

  4. Nursing shortage - Wikipedia

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    Nursing shortage is a problem in several districts of Norway. This nurse is employed at a nursing home. A nursing shortage occurs when the demand for nursing professionals, such as Registered Nurses (RNs), exceeds the supply locally—within a healthcare facility —nationally or globally. It can be measured, for instance, when the nurse-to ...

  5. Philippines offers nurses in exchange for vaccines from ... - AOL

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    The Philippines will let thousands of its healthcare workers, mostly nurses, take up jobs in Britain and Germany if the two countries agree to donate much-needed coronavirus vaccines, a senior ...

  6. Overseas Filipinos - Wikipedia

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    A healthcare problem arises as migrating women from the Philippines and other developing countries often create a nursing shortage in the home country. Nurse to patient ratio is down to 1 nurse to between 40 and 60 patients, in the 1990s the ratio was 1 nurse to between 15 and 20 patients.

  7. Angels of Bataan - Wikipedia

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    The Angels of Bataan (also known as the "Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " and "The Battling Belles of Bataan" [1]) were the members of the United States Army Nurse Corps and the United States Navy Nurse Corps who were stationed in the Philippines at the outset of the Pacific War and served during the Battle of the Philippines (1941–1942).

  8. Health care in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    This low number of personnel can be attributed to the increase in migration and resignation of Philippine nurses. Comparing data from 2014 between Philippines, United States of America, and Canada, Philippines only spent 4.7% of their GDP on health while USA and Canada spent 17.1% and 10.4%. Efforts are being performed to bridge the gap. On ...

  9. Health in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Philippines faces a large burden of disease: Proportional Death due to NCDs. The main Non-Communicable Diseases are Diabetes, Heart disease, Stroke, Cancer, and Chronic diseases that affect the airways and lungs. While these diseases affect different parts of the body in different ways, they often share common origins.