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International Nurse News Round-Up
Kenya: Nurses strike shows poor management of health care
Australia
- Headline: Bupa nurses, carers strike in Victoria
- Headline: Bupa strikes for better pay and conditions
- Headline: Strategy to boost aged care workforce underway with June deadline
- Headline: Bupa aged care staff continue industrial action over staffing levels in Victoria
- Headline: Bupa industrial action
- Headline: Geelong working women’s conference to feature leading union activists
- Headline: Nurses rally as Westmead Hospital closes B3A ward
- Headline: Nurses take action as Blacktown Hospital staffing woes continue
- Headline: Nursing home backs down from huge proposed staffing cuts
- Headline: Queensland Nurses and Midwives' Union Letter to the Editor
- Headline: Union worried for patients in wake of nursing home cuts
Canada
- Headline: Hallway patient numbers 'shocking' but most hospitals over capacity, nurses' association says
- Headline: Ontario Nurses' Association Election Results: Vicki McKenna, RN is Incoming President, Cathryn Hoy, RN is Incoming First Vice-President
- Headline: Conciliation talks continue as WDGPH nursing strike looms
- Headline: Pre-election hospital bed funding 'cynical': OHC
- Headline: Manitoba nurses part of 'Wear White Wednesday' national movement
- Headline: Nurses Are Not Numbers
- Headline: Grace Hospital nurse fears for patient safety amid changes
- Headline: Exclusive: Manitoba nurse laid off says province has broken promise
- Titre: Infirmières surchargées : la FIQ et le ministère de la Santé divergent d'opinion sur un sondage
Headline: Overworked nurses: the FIQ and the Ministry of Health diverge on an opinion on a poll - Titre: Sondage sur la santé: guerre de mots entre la FIQ et le ministre Barrette
Headline: Health Survey: war of words between the FIQ and Minister Barrette - Titre: Réforme du réseau de la santé - Un échec sur toute la ligne, selon une majorité de Québécoises et de Québécois
Headline: Reforming the health system - An entire failure, according to a majority of Quebeckers - Titre: Les Québécois conscients de la surcharge de travail des professionnels de la santé, dit la FIQ
Headline: Quebeckers aware of the work overload of health professionals, says FIQ - Titre: Système de santé: le niveau monte-t-il ou descend-il?
Headline: Health system: has the quality of care gone up or down? - Titre: Sondage: la surcharge de travail des infirmières inquiète les Québécois
Headline: Survey: nurses' work overload worries Quebeckers - Titre: Les Québécois craignent d'être soignés par des infirmières surchargées
Headline: Quebeckers fear being treated by overworked nurses
Costa Rica
Honduras
- Titular: Expira plazo de enfermeras auxiliares para que gobierno cumpla sus demandas salariales
Headline: Auxiliary nurses strike for government to meet their wage demands - Titular: Enfermeras y enfermeros salen a las calles para exigir pago de salarios
Headline: Nurses take to the streets to demand wage payments - Titular: Paralizado el rubro de enfermeras a nivel nacional
Headline: Nurses on strike across the country
Ireland
- Headline: Portlaoise hospital downgrade part of crisis in health service says Laois TD
- Headline: Waiting list for a bed in Letterkenny hospital at year low
- Headline: Waiting list for a hospital bed in Letterkenny almost doubles overnight
Kenya
- Headline: End of nurses' extended strike welcome news
- Headline: Nurses call off strike after 150 days
- Headline: Sh7.5bn deal ends five month nurses boycott
- Headline: Kenyan nurses end 150-day strike
- Headline: Kenyan Nurses Halt Five-Month Strike
- Headline: Five months nurses’ strike called off
- Headline: Nurses strike shows poor management of health care in Kenya
- Headline: Labour Court stops four governors from axing striking nurses
- Headline: Court blocks four counties from recruiting nurses to replace strikers
- Headline: Avoid temporary Red Cross jobs, nurses told
- Headline: Kenyan nurses end their 5-month strike after deal with State
Philippines/United States
Portugal
- Manchete: Direcção da ‘Domus Fraternitas’ acusada de perseguir trabalhadores
Headline: Leadership of ‘Domus Fraternitas’ accused of union busting - Manchete: Activistas sindicais denunciam situação de IPSS de Braga
Headline: Union activists denounce IPSS situation in Braga
Spain
- Titular: Osakidetza acuerda con SATSE, SME y UGT un concurso de traslados de más de 3.000 plazas
Headline: Osakidetza signs agreement with SATSE, SME and UGT over a contest of transfers of more than 3,000 seats - Titular: Satse lleva a la Fiscalía las convocatorias de cargos "irregulares"
Headline: Satse calls out the Prosecutor's Office for "irregular" charges - Titular: Sanidad y sindicatos acuerdan revisar la carrera y el desarrollo profesional
Headline: Health and unions agree to revise professional salaries and development - Titular: Satse ve "insuficiente" la propuesta inicial de incorporación de enfermeras especialistas en salud mental en el SAS
Headline: Satse sees the initial proposal of incorporation of mental health nurses in the SAS as "insufficient" - Titular: Ante la llegada de la gripe el Sindicato de enfermería (SATSE) pide planificación y menos improvisación
Headline: Before the arrival of the flu, the Nursing Union (SATSE) calls for planning and less improvisation - Titular: Los enfermeros de Madrid alertan de plantas cerradas en hospitales ante la campaña de la gripe
Headline: Nurses in Madrid warn of closed plants in hospitals before the flu campaign - Titular: Satse reclama una enmienda al presupuesto sanitario de la Comunidad de Madrid
Headline: Satse demands an amendment to the health budget of the Community of Madrid
United Kingdom
- Headline: Number of EU nurses registering to work in Britain falls by 90 per cent
- Headline: European nurses and midwives leaving UK in droves since Brexit vote
- Headline: NMC reveals 27% more nurses leaving the register than joining
- Headline: Number of NHS managers recruited soars as shortage of nurses grows
- Headline: Scotland facing NHS crisis as Brexit sees nurses fleeing UK
- Headline: Maternity support workers feel ‘undervalued’ at band 3
United States
- Headline: Nurses urge Trump to increase aid to Puerto Rico after seeing desperation firsthand
- Headline: National Nurses United Providing Puerto Rico Relief
- Headline: Things in Puerto Rico are worse than our government's admitting | Opinion
- Headline: Kaiser nurses plan to picket Thursday afternoon
- Headline: Marin nurses, back from Puerto Rico, urge more hurricane relief
- Headline: San Rafael Kaiser nurses allege inadequate staffing
- Headline: Kaiser nurses to picket in Vacaville, Vallejo
- Headline: Bay Area Kaiser nurses to hold informational pickets Thursday
- Headline: Kaiser nurses take to picket lines
- Headline: Nurse Volunteers Say Puerto Ricans Are Dying- Here's How Nurses Can Help.
- Headline: NAVY’S LARGEST FLOATING HOSPITAL DOCKS IN PUERTO RICO
- Headline: Kaiser nurses picket 21 campuses, including Vacaville
- Headline: Turning energy into action is the message of the first Women’s Convention in forty years
- Headline: Minnesotans play active role at AFL-CIO convention
- Headline: Trump’s Emergency Response In Puerto Rico Is A Massive Moral Failure
- Titular: Enfermeras acusan al gobierno federal de “dejar morir a la gente” en la isla
Headline: Nurses accuse the federal government of "letting people die" on the island - Headline: Meet the Legal Theorists Behind the Financial Takeover of Puerto Rico
- Headline: Utah Nurse Waives Lawsuit, Settles for $500,000 in Patient Privacy Case
- Headline: Utah nurse settles with police department after brutal arrest went viral
- Headline: Launching a "Down-Ballot Revolution" in Chicago
Headline: Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: Breaking Through the Political Barriers to Free Education - Headline: Nurses union dives deeply into local, state politics
- Headline: A health care company comes under fire for mandating its employees to get flu shots
- Headline: Timeline: A Quick Guide To Veritas’ United Medical Center Contract
- Headline: United Medical Center leader argues case for hospital operator as contract decision looms