The World Health Organization has cited the Philippines as the largest exporter of Nurses to foreign countries. Filipino nurses can be found everywhere around the world --- in the big cities of United States and England, in urbanized centers of Europe and Asia, in the far corners of Africa and South America, remote desert clinics and state-of-the-art hospitals in the Middle East.

Philippine nursing schools, 181 of them in 1998, graduate more than 35,000 students every year, 20,000 of whom will eventually become registered nurses. In 2002, nearly 300,000 students enrolled in nursing schools. The training of nurses features apprenticeship, laboratory work, experiments residency, and community based projects.  All lectures and school works are done in the English Language.