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International Nurse News Round-Up
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Australia
- Headline: Midwives delivering support and education on International Midwives Day
- Headline: Celebrating midwives
- Headline: Recognising the important contribution made by midwives.
- Headline: Celebrating our midwives: International Midwives Day 2017
- Headline: Tasmanian nurses union head Neroli Ellis banks on the ‘it’s time’ factor for Legislative Council elections
- Headline: Nurses do more than toileting, showering and pill-popping
- Headline: Qld midwives increasingly popular: union
- Headline: New fears for young Outback nurses, as governments fail to make work safer a year after murder Gayle Woodford
- Headline: Midwives in NSW recognised for tireless work
- Headline: Nurses rally for better nurse to patient ratios
- Headline: Wollongong workers hitting our streets for equality
- Headline: Vic health gets $2.9b, hospitals upgraded
- Headline: New Adelaide hospital to open in September
- Headline: New Royal Adelaide Hospital: State Government reveal opening date to be September 5, 2017
- Headline: Women to lead Labour Day march for first time
Canada
- Headline: Islander wins national award from Canadian Federation of Nurses Union
- Headline: P.E.I.'s Mary Boyd wins national award from Canadian Federation of Nurses Union
- Headline: 'Spit at or punched or poked': Sask. health staff top list of violently injured workers
- Headline: Nurses 'extremely concerned for patient safety': Survey
- Headline: Registered nurses sound alarm regarding Saskatchewan patients being put at risk
- Headline: Cancel bill, nurses union urges
- Headline: Manitoba unions make last effort to stop contentious labour bills
- Headline: Unions gather at Manitoba legislature to fight 'heavy-handed' collective bargaining cuts
- Headline: Public workers rally against provincial budget cuts
- Headline: Unions raise voice to Pallister cuts
- Headline: Staff, patients attend latest NDP-Liberal rally against closures at Misericordia Health Centre
- Headline: Demonstrators demand Tories keep open Misericordia urgent care centre
- Headline: Violence against nurses a huge problem
- Headline: Workers demand more rights
- Headline: SDHU nurses ratify new agreement
- Headline: Ontario to test giving seniors retirement home stays to ease hospital overcrowding
- Headline: How one of Canada’s busiest ERs made progress against overcrowding
- Headline: Nurses ratify new contract at Windsor Assembly Plant
- Headline: Windsor Chrysler nurses make small 'gains' in new deal
- Titre: La FIQ conteste le modèle de superclinique
Headline: The FIQ challenges the superclinic model - Titre: Violence en hausse dans les hôpitaux : l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue n'échappe pas à la tendance
Headline: Violence on the rise in hospitals: Abitibi-Témiscamingue is no exception to the trend - Titre: La FIQ préoccupée par le modèle de superclinique prôné par Gaétan Barrette
Headline: The FIQ concerned about the superclinic model advocated by Gaétan Barrette
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Trabajadores protestan en Hospital Ricardo Limardo de Puerto Plata, exigen varias reivindicaciones
Headline: Workers protest at Ricardo Limardo Hospital in Puerto Plata, make demands - Titular: Trabajadores marchan en demanda de mejoras para seguridad social
Headline: Workers march on demand for social security improvements - Titular: Realizarán vigilia mañana por abandono hospital público de Puerto Plata
Headline: Demonstration of vigil to be held over the de-funding of public hospitals - Titular: Hospital Ricardo Limardo de Puerto Plata sigue en condiciones muy precarias
Headline: Ricardo Limardo Hospital of Puerto Plata continues in very precarious conditions
France
- Titre: Clamart : quatre infirmières agressées aux urgences
Headline: Clamart: four nurses assaulted in emergency room - Titre: Les infirmiers en colère après une revalorisation d’1,50 euro de leur prime de nuit
Headline: Nurses are angry after salary reevaluation
Honduras
- Titular: ANEEAH solicita a Salud el pago de L90 millones por deuda acumulada
Headline: ANEEAH asks Health to pay L90 million for accumulated debt - Titular: Salud adeuda unos 90 millones de lempiras a enfermeras auxiliares
Headline: Health owes about 90 million lempiras to auxiliary nurses
Ireland
- Headline: INMO threatens Armageddon situation unless terms improve
- Headline: More nurses and midwives to be hired by year end
- Headline: Graduating nurses and midwives to be 'offered full-time contracts' - Harris
- Headline: 'Floor cleaners are paid more than me,' says nurse as union warns of strikes
- Headline: Simon Harris commits to giving graduating Irish student nurses full-time contracts
- Headline: INMO says HSE not showing enough urgency in recruitment
- Headline: Nurses' support for new deal hinges on special wage hike
- Headline: No end in sight for overcrowding at UHG
- Headline: INMO official fears Galway overcrowding crisis will not be resolved within at least five years
- Headline: Chocolates suggested as incentive for nurses' vaccinations
- Headline: Chocolate could encourage nurses to get flu vaccine, committee hears
- Headline: After Years of Reports, HSE Failings with Student Nurses and Midwives is Unsurprising
- Headline: Bring talks on reversing cuts to workers forward, unions tell Government
- Headline: Special deals unlikely despite need to fill shortages in key areas
- Headline: Pay deal sees some nurses take on additional tasks
- Headline: Hospital waiting lists hit new record of 666,000
- Headline: Nurses say they will strike for pay parity
- Headline: INMO has been my life, says retiring general secretary Liam Doran
- Headline: Midlands INMO Rep Pleased With Full Time Contract Offer For Graduates
- Headline: Negative experiences makes Ireland less attractive for Filipino nurses
- Headline: Numbers on hospital trolleys rising outside Dublin, INMO says
- Headline: INMO Highlights Challenge Of Recruiting Nurses In Midlands Hospitals
- Headline: Pay restoration and parity dominate INMO conference
- Headline: Nurses warn of national strike if pay demands not met
- Headline: CUH ‘the most overcrowded hospital in the country’
- Headline: INMO figures show sharp increase in overcrowding at LUH in 2017
- Headline: Nurses set to demand 12pc pay hike, union boss warns
Kenya
- Headline: Nyeri nurses strike, demand promotion and more staff
- Headline: Striking nurses hold street demos as vow to stay put
- Headline: Seth Panyako vows to list individuals in health scam
Mexico
Morocco
- Titre: Les infirmiers fêteront leur journée mondiale avec une grève
Headline: Nurses celebrate International Nurses' Day with strike - Titre: Malgré un appel au dialogue du ministère de la Santé, les infirmiers maintiennent leur marche de protestation le 12 mai
Headline: Despite a call for dialogue from the Ministry of Health, the nurses continue with their protest march on May 12
New Zealand
- Headline: Maori nursing workforce strategy missing
- Headline: Hospital accused of bullying and understaffing
- Headline: Decision on district nurses' move to health hub expected to take months
- Headline: Southern DHB looks to cut 23 jobs but promises more attention to primary care
- Headline: Proposal devastates nurses
- Headline: Healthcare petition on hospital stretcher to be delivered to MP
Philippines
Portugal
- Manchete: Enfermeiros seguem exemplo dos médicos e iniciam greve de zelo
Headline: Nurses follow doctors' example and start zealous strike - Manchete: Movimento dos utentes solidário com greves dos médicos e dos enfermeiros
Headline: Movement of workers in solidarity with doctors 'and nurses' strikes - Manchete: Médicos e enfermeiros fazem greves diferentes
Headline: Doctors and nurses make different strikes - Manchete: Enfermeiros iniciam quarta-feira greve de zelo por tempo indeterminado
Headline: Nurses start indefinite strike Wednesday - Manchete: Enfermeiros iniciam greve de zelo por tempo indeterminado
Headline: Nurses start indefinite strike
South Africa
- Headline: Nurses' crisis under spotlight
- Headline: WATCH: Durban health care professionals march on City Hall
- Headline: Count the ways SA state hospitals are 'badly managed'
- Headline: Unemployed nurses protest for jobs
South Korea
- Headline: Industry groups ask Moon to expand policy support
- Headline: Labour activists in South Korea, Indonesia campaign for release of Somyot
Spain
- Titular: SATSE celebra Día de Enfermería para reivindicar el trabajo de los enfermeros
Headline: SATSE celebrates Nursing Day to defend the work of nurses - Titular: SATSE pide mejorar condiciones laborales y profesionales de las enfermeras
Headline: SATSE calls for better working and professional conditions for nurses - Titular: Satse reclama fijar por ley el cupo de pacientes de Enfermería
Headline: Satse demands nurse-to-patient ratios - Titular: «Una sola enfermera atiende a ocho pacientes críticos, en vez de a dos, en el Virgen del Rocío»
Headline: «A single nurse attends to eight critical patients, instead of two, in the Virgen del Rocío» - Titular: Rosa Peñalver se ha reunido con SATSE por la celebración del Día Internacional de la Enfermería
Headline: Rosa Peñalver meets with SATSE for the celebration of the International Day of Nursing - Titular: Satse Madrid lanza una campaña para visibilizar el trabajo diario de los enfermeros
Headline: Satse Madrid launches a campaign to make visible the daily work of nurses - Titular: Satse muestra la labor de los enfermeros con una campaña y pide nuevas plazas
Headline: Satse shows the work of the nurses with a campaign and asks for increased staffing - Titular: SATSE reclama a Sanidad que lidere sistema información integral sobre accidentes y enfermedades en el ámbito sanitario
Headline: SATSE calls for Health to lead comprehensive information system on accidents and diseases in the health field - Titular: El Sindicato de Enfermería denuncia la escasez de matronas y reclama más plantilla para atender a las mujeres
Headline: The Nursing Union denounces the shortage of midwives and calls for more staff to serve women - Titular: Satse Toledo pide más enfermeras y mejores condiciones laborales en Urgencias
Headline: Satse Toledo calls for more nurses and better working conditions in ER - Titular: Sanidad destaca la consolidación de la Red de Expertos de Urgencias creada hace un año
Headline: Health highlights the consolidation of the Network of Emergency Experts created a year ago - Titular: Satse toma el puso a la situación laboral de las enfermeras
Headline: Satse highlights working conditions of nurses - Titular: Satse critica que el foro being one madrid pida enfermeras para trabajar gratis
Headline: Satse criticizes the Being One Madred Forum for asking nurses to work for free - Titular: Satse alerta de que el centro de salud está desbordado por la falta de enfermeras
Headline: Satse warns that the health center is overrun by the lack of nurses
United Kingdom
- Headline: New international recruitment campaign aims to boost nursing numbers in Wales
- Headline: Nurse recruitment campaign under way in Wales
- Headline: PM under fire over plight of nurses forced to use food banks
- Headline: Safe staffing 'must be priority' in election, says RCN
- Headline: Nurses, have your vital say
- Headline: LETTER: 'Back nurses over pay'
- Headline: Nurses will see their pay ‘cut by 12% over a decade’
- Headline: Nursing: too many struggling
- Headline: Pay cut is fuelling nursing crisis
- Headline: Low-paid nurses are being forced to pay up to £90 a month to park at work, Unison finds
United States
- Headline: No Congress, Nurses Won’t Accept ‘Lord Of The Flies’ Health Care
- Headline: A nurses’ week retrospective on the hard work of NNU’s mighty, mighty nurses
- Headline: Nurses demand better health care for Americans
- Headline: San Diego Nurses Rally In Washington For Lower Patient-To-Staff Ratio Nationwide
- Headline: California's free health care plan moves forward
- Headline: Appalachian Regional Healthcare nurses ratify new contract
- Headline: Scarborough hospice workers vote to join union
- Headline: Maine hospice nurses celebrate union organizing victory
- Headline: Why unionists marched for climate, jobs, justice
- Headline: March against Climate Change
- Headline: California Single Payer Bill SB 562 Clears First Hurdle
- Headline: After Cruel Trumpcare Vote, Sanders Calls on California to Lead Nation on Single Payer
- Headline: 'Thank You, Mr. President': Trump Praises Universal Healthcare Hours After Shameful Trumpcare Vote
- Headline: Trump, Congress may undo progress on workplace safety
- Headline: With powerful nurses union behind him, Jimmy Gomez gets more progressive support in L.A. congressional race
- Headline: Will California's surge of liberal activism pull legislators to the left?
- Headline: California Senate Health Committee approves universal healthcare bill: 5 things to know
- Headline: Bernie Sanders returns to California this weekend
- Headline: Marin General Hospital employees complain of understaffing