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Filipino nurses make up 4.5% of the nursing population but account for 25% of COVID deaths. At the height of the pandemic, nurses played a huge part in saving lives, but some — especially ...
The coronavirus pandemic brought to light the inequities of America's health care system — including access to care and underlying conditions that disproportionately affect certain communities ...
Filipinos make up about 4% of all registered nurses in the U.S., but accounted for 30% of COVID-19 related deaths among nurses in 2020, according to National Nurses United.
A continuous influx of Filipino nurses worked in New York City, and helped to meet to the demands of healthcare at that time. The Philippine Nurses Association – New York was established in 1928 by the Filipino nurses with the goals of promoting cultural understanding and streamlining professional guidance to other Filipino nurses. The first ...
Opinion: Celebrate health care workers during Nurses Week, May 6-12, and encourage a new generation of nurses. America faces a one-million nurse shortage. Here's how Nashville is filling the gap
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell by 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 219,000 for the week ended Dec. 21, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Meanwhile, those who have lost work ...
By the 1970s, 9,158 Filipino nurses had immigrated to the U.S., making up 60% of its immigrant nurses. [81] By 2000, one in ten Filipino Americans, or an estimated 100,000 immigrants, were employed as nurses. [75] in 2020, the estimate of Filipino American nurses increased to over 150,000, or 4% of the all nurses in the United States. [82]
A distinguished Filipino nurse named Anastacia Giron-Tupas presided a meeting with 150 nurses on September 2, 1922, which incorporated the establishment of an organization for professional nurses. That organization, the Filipino Nurses Association, was born and later was accepted by the International Council of Nurses as one of the member ...