About our Founder

Stateside Nurses began as a passion project by our founder Rod Galvez, a Registered Nurse who saw a disconnect between the need for qualified healthcare professionals and the individual candidates seeking work. To bridge that gap, he created our nursing agency so that patients would not experience any lack of care due to staffing shortages or high demand.

Rod began his nursing career while studying at the Colegio San Agustin-Bacolod in the Philippines. After receiving his BS in Nursing, he quickly achieved his board exams and began work in a High Dependency Unit. During this two-year work, Rod started to see how genuine, compassionate care was the best method to ensure every patient experienced the quality of life and medical attention necessary to their particular situation.

In 2009, Rod made the journey to beautiful Australia, where he began work on the Bridging and Reentry Program while working in Aged Care as an assistant in nursing. Once his registration was completed, he was able to leverage his RN through an agency that placed him in Orthopedics. After 7 years of quality care and building a solid reputation for patient communication, Rod started to look towards opening his own agency that could provide the same opportunities he received for other nurses.

Stateside Nurses has now grown from a small idea to a full-blown agency where Rod splits his time between working as a Clinical RN at Gold Coast University Hospital rotating in trauma, surgical, medical, and respiratory wards and expanding the reach of our agency. He even found time to complete a Post Graduate Certificate in acute care in 2018.

We are proud of Rod’s achievements through the years and are motivated by his dedication to the practice of compassionate care. His work ethic and goal of providing quality matches between healthcare facilities and professional nurses is the reason our reputation has continued to grow.