Asia-Pacific Who, What, Why: Andre Rosario on nursing and immigration policies

Nursing Ph.D. student Andre Rosario’s research examines how Filipino immigrant nurses in the U.S. have influenced policies related to recruiting nurses from other countries.

Nursing Ph.D. student Andre Rosario’s research looks at nurse migration, the lack of regulation around international nurse recruitment, and its impact on the nursing workforce in the United States. His path to these interests was personal.

“My parents immigrated to the U.S. from the Philippines and my mom worked as a registered nurse in a critical care trauma unit in Atlantic City for the majority of her 30-year-plus career,” he says. Rosario himself went to Penn for the undergraduate nursing program and his brother is also a nurse.

“We saw the opportunities that my mom was able to create for us with her career in nursing,” he says. “That’s something that blossomed for us as well.”

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