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International Nurse News Round-Up
Argentina
- Titular: Las enfermeras del Hospital Angel Marzetti pelean por un sueldo digno
Headline: Nurses at Angel Marzetti Hospital fight for a decent salary - Titular: Se cumple una semana de lucha de los enfermeros del Marzetti
Headline: A week of struggle of the nurses of Marzetti is fulfilled
Australia
- Headline: Staff ratios in aged care should help ensure quality care
- Headline: Premier Will Hodgman admits health system 'clearly failed' in death of Anne Woulleman-Jarvis
- Headline: Illawarra hospital staff take petition to Parliament House
- Headline: Nurses say no to CSG in New South Wales
- Headline: Outback NSW community backs nurses to stem violence against emergency workers
- Headline: Nurses welcome review following Lismore Hospital death
- Headline: Seclusion, restraint and observation practices to be reviewed
- Headline: Health expert warns of health risks associated with the increase of traffic from WestConnex
- Headline: NSW Coalition votes to cut registered nurses from aged care
- Headline: Vote against RNs will harm aged care residents
Brazil
- Manchete: Greve dos servidores da Saúde Municipal é julgada legal pelo TJ
Headline: Strike of Municipal Health workers is deemed legal by TJ - Manchete: Servidores da Prefeitura de Nossa Senhora do Socorro terão aumento salarial de 7,58%
Headline: Health workers of the Municipality of Nossa Senhora do Socorro will have a salary increase of 7.58% - Manchete: CAS pode votar quantitativo mínimo de enfermeiros nos serviços de saúde
Headline: CAS can vote for minimum staffing of nurses in health services
Canada
- Headline: Ontario Nurses Association declares victory in northern Ontario membership vote
- Headline: SUN grant helps purchase new fridges, freezers for the Salvation Army
- Headline: Unions to province: 'Come and talk to us"
- Headline: Nurses' safety report termed a good start
- Titre: Changements majeurs dans le mouvement syndical québécois
Headline: Major changes in the Quebec labor movement - Titre: Changement de culture nécessaire
Headline: Change of culture required
Dominican Republic
- Titular: En pie de lucha continuaron hoy las integrantes del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de Enfermería (SINATRAE) en esta ciudad San Felipe de Puerto Plata
Headline: Members of the National Union of Nursing Workers (SINATRAE) continued the struggle today in San Felipe de Puerto Plata - Titular: Enfermeras denuncian males en hospitales
Headline: Nurses report ills in hospitals
France
Guatemala
Ireland
- Headline: Safety concerns over new emergency department in Limerick
- Headline: Nurses want concern over Limerick A&E addressed
- Headline: Nurses notify HSE over 'critical patient safety' issues in new Limerick ED
- Headline: Coveney highlights lack of costings for rival's policies
- Headline: AGSI criticises Varadkar's proposals on right to strike
- Headline: St Luke's Hospital in Kilkenny have highest number of patients on trolleys in country
- Headline: UL Hospital Group Rejects Claims That New ED Opening Would Be Unsafe
- Headline: “Huge Patient Safety Issue” Due To Hospital Recruitment Problems
- Headline: Staffing Shortage Forces Partial Closure Of St Vincent’s Care Centre
Kenya
- Headline: Kenya: Nyeri Nurses Call Off Strike
- Headline: Nyeri nurses call off three-week strike as county promotes staff
- Headline: Nyeri nurses refuse to end strike despite receiving show cause letters from county
- Headline: Nurses skip work over promotions, hiring of more staff
Mexico
- Titular: Resistencia. Enfermeras vencen al sistema de salud en Chiapas
Headline: Resistance. Nurses beat the health system in Chiapas - Titular: Que la Sección 50 del SNTSA defienda a las enfermeras en huelga de hambre, exigen
Headline: Local 50 of the SNTSA defends nurses on hunger strike, makes demands - Titular: Trabajadores de salud piden intervención del SNTSA en huelga de hambre de enfermeras
Headline: Health workers call for SNTSA intervention on hunger strike for nurses - Titular: “Toman” Congreso y exigen se atiendan demandas de enfermeras huelguistas en Chiapas
Headline: They "occupy" Congress and demand it meets the needs of striking nurses in Chiapas - Titular: Enfermeras de Oaxaca apoyan con paro la huelga en Chiapas
Headline: Oaxaca nurses support the strike in Chiapas - Titular: En Oaxaca se solidarizan con enfermeras de Chiapas
Headline: In Oaxaca they sympathized with the Chiapas nurses
New Zealand
- Headline: Frustration, disappointment over health funding in Budget 2017
- Headline: MÄori Nurses want $2.3 bil returned to health budget
- Headline: Kiwi doctors and nurses unions have called on the government to pump an extra $1.1b of funding into health services as part of this year's budget.
Panama
Portugal
South Africa
South Korea
- Headline: The KHMU held the temporary delegate convention and confirmed 2017 industry-level bargaining requests and action plans for continuing fights
- Headline: With lack of facilities, local governments taking lead in providing medical care
Spain
- Titular: Satse exige que Sanidad cree la categoría de Enfermería pediátrica
Headline: Satse demands that Health create the category of Pediatric Nursing - Titular: Alianza transatlántica para mejorar la profesión enfermera
Headline: Transatlantic Alliance to Improve the Nursing Profession - Titular: Satse alerta de riesgos para la asistencia por "la falta de personal de enfermería" en el Hospital de Riotinto
Headline: Satse warns of risks of "lack of nursing staff" at Riotinto Hospital - Titular: SATSE y Confedampa reclaman la implantación de la Enfermera Escolar
Headline: SATSE and Confedampa demand the requirement of the School Nurse - Titular: CSIF y Satse alertan del "retraso" en el proceso de interinización del SAS y exigen "acabar con la incertidumbre"
Headline: CSIF and Satse warn of the "delay" in the SAS interim process and demand "to end the uncertainty" - Titular: Satse critica el funcionamiento de la plataforma web del SAS
Headline: Satse criticizes the functioning of the SAS web platform - Titular: Sindicatos piden a SAS "un auténtico proceso de negociación" del plan de verano y "garantizar la atención con seguridad"
Headline: Unions ask SAS for "a real bargaining process" of the summer plan and "guaranteed security" - Titular: Los sindicatos anuncian que continuarán con las movilizaciones en la sanidad en Málaga
Headline: The unions announce that they will continue with the mobilizations in health in Málaga - Titular: Satse denuncia el estado de Psiquiatría Infanto-Juvenil
Headline: Satse denounces the state of Child and Youth Psychiatry - Titular: Los enfermeros alaveses denuncian las “precarias condiciones” de seguridad
Headline: Nurses from Alava denounce the "precarious conditions" of security - Titular: Satse pide más atención para profesionales dedicados a labores investigación
Headline: Satse asks for more attention for professionals dedicated to research work - Titular: Satse solicita la separación de las áreas sanitarias de la provincia de Córdoba
Headline: Satse requests the separation of health centers in the province of Córdoba - Titular: Denuncian la falta de enfermeros en las urgencias pediátricas y en neonatología
Headline: Criticism over the lack of nurses in emergency pediatrics and neonatal wards - Titular: Piden a Sanidad que no cierre quirófanos en verano para agilizar las listas de espera
Headline: Health Ministry is asked not to close operating wards in the summer to streamline waiting lists
United Kingdom
- Headline: Nurses to stage 'summer of protests' over pay
- Headline: NHS nurses to stage 'summer walkouts' over pay cap
United States
- Headline: Hospice Of Southern Maine votes to unionize
- Headline: Nurses rally for quality care
- Headline: Nurse Rally Support For Healthcare Bill, Elk Grove Legislators Demur at State Convention
- Headline: Democratic divisions on display as Bauman wins California party chairmanship
- Headline: House Democrats See ‘Medicare For All’ As The Answer To Trumpcare
- Headline: Anti-Corporate Protesters Drown Out Democratic Party Chair Tom Perez with Chants of “Liar!”
- Headline: Amid F-Bomb and Uproar, Dems Face Demands to Get Behind Single Payer
- Headline: Another small Maine hospital to stop delivering babies
- Headline: Nurses heckle Democratic leader, threaten legislators over health care
- Headline: Inside the California Democratic Party's rowdy weekend feud
- Headline: California Democrats choose new chair as divisions break into the open
- Headline: Ahead of showdown over who will lead California Democrats, 'Berniecrats' have a message: 'We don't have to behave'
- Headline: California Single Payer Bill SB 562 Takes Another Step Forward
- Headline: As D.C. attacks Obamacare, California takes steps toward single-payer health care
- Headline: Election of California Democrats' Leader Exposes Party's Divide
- Headline: Party Insider Claims Democratic Chair After Dramatic Race
- Headline: The Latest: Single-payer health backers disturb convention
- Headline: Bernie Sanders backers say Democrats are ‘in absolute crisis and denial’
- Headline: Tom Perez Bombs Speech, California Dem Chair Tells Protesters ‘Shut the F*ck Up’
Venezuela
- Titular: “No queremos bombas, queremos medicinas”, gritaba el gremio de la salud en la Fajardo
Headline: "We do not want bombs, we want medicines," shouted the health union in La Fajardo - Titular: Dispersan con gases manifestación de médicos y enfermeras en Venezuela
Headline: Tear gas used to disperse demonstration of doctors and nurses in Venezuela - Titular: Reprimen marcha de médicos y enfermeras en Caracas
Headline: Repression of doctors and nurses in Caracas - Titular: Olivares: Este lunes 22M nos movilizaremos por la crisis humanitaria
Headline: Olivares: This Monday 22M we will mobilize for the humanitarian crisis - Titular: Piden medicinas y Maduro los ataca con chorros de agua
Headline: They ask for medicines and Maduro attacks them with water jets - Titular: El lunes marcharemos hacia el Ministerio de Salud — Olivares
Headline: On Monday we will go to the Ministry of Health - Olivares - Titular: MUD convoca a gremio médico a marchar el lunes en Caracas
Headline: MUD calls for medical guild to march on Monday in Caracas - Titular: VENEZUELA: Conmemoraron Día de la Enfermera en hospital de Calabozo
Headline: VENEZUELA: Commemorate Nurse's Day at Calabozo Hospital