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International Nurse News Round-Up
South Korea: 1,500 union members of the Eulji Foundation (two affiliates) have been out on strike for Seven days
Australia
- Headline: Aged care staff told to leave residents in soggy pads
- Headline: Ballarat Trades Hall rejects idea of protest permits
- Headline: Nurses union calls for parliamentary support
- Headline: Extra security for Eastern Health hospitals after fatal one-punch attack on doctor
- Headline: Bupa nurses and carers pay push heads to Federal Court, impacting operations at Bellarine Lakes in Moolap
- Headline: Under-resourced John Hunter Nurses to Ban Follow-Up Calls with Patients
- Headline: John Hunter nurses and midwives vote to introduce industrial bans
- Headline: John Hunter Hospital nurses and midwives staff still feel short-staffed
- Headline: Blue Care flags Toowoomba nursing home cuts
Canada
- Headline: Nursing at St. Boniface Hospital to be overhauled
- Headline: 40 Winnipeg nurses to lose their jobs at Victoria Hospital as of Friday: Union
- Headline: WRHA changes impact 1300 jobs
- Headline: WRHA pulls off staffing changes with little pain
- Headline: 50 new nurse positions to be added at St. Boniface Hospital in scheduling overhaul
- Headline: Expand nurse practitioners’ role, union says
- Headline: Concerns mount over Valley View Villa plans
- Titre: Violence au travail : le resserrement des règles à venir au N.-B. réjouit les infirmières
Headline: Workplace violence: Strengthening of legislation in NB delights nurses - Titre: Un loi pour mieux protéger les infirmières de la violence
Headline: Legislation to better protect nurses from violence - Titre: Un plan solide pour soutenir les personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle ou un trouble du spectre de l’autisme
Headline: A strong plan to support people with learning disabilities and austism - Titre: Ville-Marie : rupture de service en anesthésie
Headline: Ville-Marie: service breakdown in anesthesia - Titre: La situation à l’urgence de Granby inquiète
Headline: The worrying situation in the emergency department of Granby
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Cierran y militarizan sindicato de enfermería en Santiago
Headline: Nurses union office closed and militarized in Santiago - Titular: Militarizan oficinas del sindicato de enfermeras en Santiago
Headline: Nursing union office is militarized in Santiago - Titular: Oficinas del sindicato de enfermeras del hospital Cabral y Báez son cerradas y militarizadas
Headline: Offices of the nurses' union of the Cabral and Báez hospital are closed and militarized - Titular: Se profundiza crisis laboral en el sector salud
Headline: Deepening labor crisis in the health sector - Titular: Médicos volverán a paralizar hospitales
Headline: Doctors will strike hospitals again - Titular: El CMD paraliza desde hoy por 72 horas todos los hospitales
Headline: The CMD strikes from today for 72 hours at all hospitals - Titular: Funcionarios de Salud rehúyen al diálogo con los médicos en huelga
Headline: Health officials refuse to dialogue with physicians on strike - Titular: Waldo Suero dice autoridades de Salud mienten
Headline: Waldo Suero says health authorities lie - Titular: Presidente CMD advierte si Gobierno quiere confrontación, la tendrá
Headline: President of CMD warns if Government wants confrontation, it will have it - Titular: Médicos y enfermeras de Puerto Plata inician huelga por tres días
Headline: Puerto Plata doctors and nurses start strike for three days
Guatemala
Honduras
- Titular: Enfermeras profesionales decretan paro de labores progresivos
Headline: Professional nurses announce strike - Titular: Paro nacional de enfermeras profesionales del país
Headline: National strike of professional nurses throughout the country
Ireland
- Headline: Tensions rise for Laois nurses and midwives in hours and pay dispute
- Headline: INMO Claims Long Working Hours For Nurses Are Impacting Recruitment
- Headline: Beaumont Hospital to get €40m emergency department - McGrath
- Headline: 10,000 patients in the dark on treatment after cancellations
- Headline: Employers must pay employees time lost as a result of Ophelia
- Headline: No significant A&E backlog in Offaly after Hurricane Ophelia
- Headline: Normal services to resume in coming days
- Headline: INMO call for review after latest LUH trolley revelation
Kenya
- Headline: Nurses strike is still on, says union
- Headline: Nakuru County nurses vow to keep off work until government signs CBA
- Headline: Nurses’ union to hold key meeting to resolve four-month strike
- Headline: Meeting with nurses over biting 135-day strike aborts
New Zealand
- Headline: Over half of Canterbury GPs admit to working while sick
- Headline: Nurses alarmed at plan to employ non-professionals for mental health nursing
Peru
Portugal
- Manchete: Governo anuncia acordo com sindicatos dos enfermeiros
Headline: Government announces agreement with nurses' unions - Manchete: Enfermeiros dizem que acordo com Governo é formalização de medidas pré-acordadas
Headline: Nurses say that agreement with Government is formalization of pre-agreed measures - Manchete: Governo anuncia acordo e fim das greves de enfermeiros
Headline: Government announces agreement and end of nurses' strikes - Manchete: Enfermeiros especialistas terão subsídio transitório já em 2018
Headline: Specialist nurses will have transitional allowance as early as 2018 - Manchete: Suplemento de 150 euros para os enfermeiros
Headline: Bonus of 150 euros for nurses - Manchete: Governo e enfermeiros chegaram a acordo
Headline: Government and nurses reach agreement - Manchete: Utentes e enfermeiros manifestam-se para impedir encerramento de unidades no HLA
Headline: Patients and nurses demonstrate to prevent closure of HLA units - Manchete: Protesto no Hospital do Litoral Alentejano exige medidas
Headline: Protest at the Alentejo Litoral Hospital demands action - Manchete: Governo deve manter valências no Hospital do Litoral Alentejano
Headline: Government should keeps its promises at the Alentejo Litoral Hospital
South Korea
Spain
- Titular: Satse traslada a Sacyl 200 incidencias en la plantilla de enfermería durante el verano
Headline: Satse reports to Sacyl 200 incidents in the nursing staff during the summer - Titular: El Satse exige un vigilante las 24 horas en el centro Castilla del Pino
Headline: Satse demands a 24 hour security guard in Castilla del Pino - Titular: Satse denuncia la ‘marcha atrás’ de las comunidades en la OPE
Headline: Satse denounces the 'retreat' from the communities in the OPE - Titular: Satse exige al Sescam revisar el Plan Perseo y adoptar medidas para evitar agresiones como las de El Casar
Headline: Satse demands that Sescam revise the Perseus Plan and adopt measures to prevent workplace violence such as that in El Casar - Titular: SATSE critica retrasos en implantar la enfermera especialista en salud mental
Headline: SATSE criticizes delays in hiring mental health nurse specialists - Titular: 750 enfermeras demandan al IB-Salut para reclamar el 100% de la carrera profesional
Headline: 750 nurses sue the IB-Salut to claim 100% of the professional salary - Titular: Sindicatos convocan huelga en el Sergas el 2 y 3 de noviembre para exigir a la Xunta la "recuperación de derechos"
Headline: Trade unions call strike at Sergas on November 2 and 3 to demand the "recovery of rights" from the Xunta - Titular: SATSE cuestiona la apertura de quirófanos en el Hospital El Bierzo sin aumentar la plantilla de enfermería
Headline: SATSE questions opening of operating rooms at El Bierzo Hospital without increasing nursing staff - Titular: Satse denuncia el "olvido" de la Unidad de Reanimación de Adultos del Reina Sofía
Headline: Satse denounces the "abandonment" of the Adult Reanimation Unit of Reina Sofía - Titular: Satse ve positivo el incremento del presupuesto para salud pero pide la devolución de los recortes
Headline: Satse favors increases in the health budget but calls for increased staffing
United Kingdom
- Headline: Brexit means fewer EU nurses in East Lancashire
- Headline: Brexit sparks 'ever worsening' NHS staffing crisis
- Headline: The number of EU workers leaving our hospitals is growing... is Brexit to blame?
- Headline: Share of European Union staff leaving NHS rises following Brexit
- Headline: Nursing unions in plea for rights of 'vital' EU nationals working for NHS
- Headline: Nurses welcome end of pay cap
United States
- Headline: 'The People of Puerto Rico Are Dying': Action Is Needed Now
- Headline: Instead of health care for all, Assembly has a do-nothing committee
- Headline: She flew to Puerto Rico to aid relief efforts. Then she found out her home was in the path of a wildfire
- Headline: About 1 million Americans without running water. 3 million without power. This is life one month after Hurricane Maria.
- Headline: 'People Are Dying' But Trump Gives Himself Perfect '10' for Puerto Rico Response
- Headline: West Anaheim Medical nurses vote to unionize
- Headline: Union coalition to AFL-CIO: Make single-payer health care a priority
- Headline: Rosa Clemente on Puerto Ricans drinking toxic water and San Juan Mayor’s message to the Diaspora
- Headline: Labor unions bring real rebuilding assistance to Puerto Rico
- Headline: Officials: Calif. hospitals overcrowded with fire evacuees
- Titular: Grupo de sindicatos vio de primera mano la catástrofe que dejó María
Headline: Group of unions saw first hand the catastrophe left in Maria's wake - Headline: Magnet Status: Superior Care or Marketing Gimmick?
- Headline: Feinstein’s big name and big money will make it hard for Kevin de León
- Headline: Democratic divisions in California complicate hope for national party gains
- Headline: Dem divisions in California complicate party hopes for gains
- Headline: Defeating Dianne Feinstein will be expensive. Where will Kevin de León get the cash?
- Headline: Over 10,000 Californians Mobilized Over the Weekend for Single Payer Bill SB 562
- Headline: Maine State Nurses Association announces support of new bill\
- Headline: Operator of United Medical Center tells DC it will replace CEO
- Headline: Bill proposes healthcare protection for patients in rural area