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International Nurse News Round-Up
Portugal: Nurses advance with indefinite strike
Argentina
Australia
- Headline: Geelong Bupa aged care nurses campaign for more staff, better pay
- Headline: Industrial action hits aged care homes
- Headline: Fierce health advocate Neroli Ellis moves on
- Headline: Bupa Ballarat industrial action: residents remain priority
- Headline: Bupa nurses and carers strike
- Headline: Extra nurses if needed: Hospital
- Headline: Goulburn Base Hospital "under enormous pressure": Secord
- Headline: Hospital staff numbers can be increased to meet demand, says health district
- Headline: Short-staffing hurts regional hospital: Nurses
- Headline: Groom MP refutes claims of aged care centre cuts
Canada
- Headline: Huron Public Health Unit Registered Nurses attempting to avoid a strike
- Headline: Patient-centred or budget-driven? 117 seen as Victoria ER becomes urgent care centre
- Titre: Plus de 200 griefs déposés cet été dans les hôpitaux de la région
Headline: More than 200 grievances filed this summer in hospitals in the region - Titre: Hausse des heures supplémentaires des infirmières à des périodes inhabituelles
Headline: Overtime increases for nurses at unusual times - Titre: Heures supplémentaires des infirmières en hausse, Barrette veut plus de temps complet
Headline: Nurses’ overtime on the rise, Barrette wants more full-time - Titre: Le temps supplémentaire augmente encore à l’Hôtel-Dieu de Sorel
Headline: Overtime increases at Hôtel-Dieu de Sorel
Ireland
- Headline: Nurses' group submits a pre-budget demand to call for more workers
- Headline: Record levels of hospital overcrowding continue, says nurses’ union
- Headline: More than 500 people on trolleys waiting for hospital beds, says INMO
- Headline: University Hospital Limerick hits monthly high in patient overcrowding
- Headline: 5,000 patients waited on trolleys at UHG so far this year
- Headline: Harris aims to increase number of children with free GP care
- Headline: INMO urges funding recommended in Slaintecare Report
- Headline: MORE THAN 8,000 PATIENTS WERE ON TROLLEYS IN SEPTEMBER
- Headline: Misery for patients on hospital trolleys as September overcrowding sets new record
- Headline: Nurses' group reveals number of patients waiting for a trolley in Letterkenny hospital
Kenya
- Headline: Union denies some nurses have returned to hospitals
- Headline: Kenya: Nurses Teargassed in March to Parliament
- Headline: Nurses strike: The long struggle for better pay
- Headline: Strike still on, Mombasa nurses say, ask Joho to consult colleagues
- Headline: Fire strike nurses, Celopa Mailu tells governors
New Zealand
- Headline: Dunedin rest home nurse wrongly sacked
- Headline: Veteran nurse wrongly sacked, awarded $31k by ERA
- Headline: Hospital car parking: Shuttle trial extended
Paraguay
Portugal
- Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros adia entrega do pré-aviso de greve
Headline: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros postpones delivery of notice of strike - Manchete: Greve dos enfermeiros da próxima semana foi suspensa
Headline: Next week's nurses strike was suspended - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros Portugueses cancela greve
Headline: Union of Portuguese Nurses cancels strike - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros. Greve em suspenso até quarta-feira
Headline: Nurses' union strike postponed until Wednesday - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros Portugueses cancela greve prevista para próxima semana
Headline: Union of Portuguese Nurses cancels strike scheduled for next week - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros rejeita propostas do Governo e avança com greve
Headline: Union of Nurses rejects government proposals and moves forward with strike - Manchete: Enfermeiros avançam com greve por tempo indeterminado
Headline: Nurses advance with indefinite strike
South Africa
- Headline: South Africa: Denosa KZN Elated By Health Department's Move to Take Over Functionality At St Mary's Hospital
- Headline: Department of Health takes over St Mary’s Hospital in Mariannhill
Spain
- Titular: SATSE Castilla y León pide al consejero que deje de coaccionar a la Enfermería para que incumpla la legalidad con las vacunas
Headline: SATSE Castilla y León asks the counselor to stop coercing Nursing to breach the legality with the vaccines - Titular: Denuncian la 'insalubridad' de la base del Samu de emergencias del Grao de Castellón sin agua potable
Headline: The “insolubrity” of the Grao de Castellón Samu EMS base without potable water denounced - Titular: Satse insta al Gobierno y Junta a cerrar un acuerdo para mantener la jornada de 35 horas en Andalucía
Headline: Satse urges the Government and Board to close an agreement to maintain the 35-hour day in Andalusia - Titular: Médicos y enfermeros volverán hoy a "plantar" al IB-Salut y recurrirán el decreto del catalán
Headline: Doctors and nurses will return today to "reinforce" the IB-Salut and will resort to the decree of Catalan - Titular: Interior se compromete a integrar a los enfermeros en el plan de agresiones
Headline: Interior promises to integrate the nurses in workplace violence prevention plans - Titular: SATSE asegura que otros países europeos se benefician de los enfermeros “que España no valora”
Headline: SATSE asserts that other European countries benefit from nurses "that Spain does not value" - Titular: Última semana para inscribirse en el curso de preparación de la Oferta Pública de Empleo de Ingesa
Headline: Last week to enroll in the preparation course for the Ingesa Public Employment Offer - Titular: SATSE alerta de los "problemas" que va a generar "escasa" OPE de Enfermería en Navarra
Headline: SATSE alert of the "problems" that will generate "scarce" OPE Nursing in Navarre - Titular: Satse denuncia «coacciones» a Enfermería para que incumpla la ley
Headline: Satse denounces "coercion" of Nursing to break the law - Titular: Satse: la Enfermería española está mejor valorada en el resto de Europa
Headline: Satse: Spanish nurses are better valued in the rest of Europe - Titular: Satse pide una mejora de las condiciones de trabajo en residencias públicas
Headline: Satse calls for improved working conditions in public residences - Titular: "Si no mejoran las condiciones laborales, nadie querrá trabajar en las residencias públicas"
Headline: "If they do not improve working conditions, nobody will want to work in public residences" - Titular: Satse tilda de "fraude" que el SAS no les incluya en el plus salarial
Headline: Satse calls it "fraud" that the SAS does not include them in the salary increases - Titular: SATSE León denuncia la falta de equipos de protección individual para las enfermeras
Headline: SATSE León denounces the lack of individual protective equipment for nurses - Titular: El Satse reclama aumentos para las guardias de las enfermeras
Headline: Satse demands increases for nurses' guards
United Kingdom
- Headline: NHS: Jeremy Hunt wants 5,000 new nursing training places
- Headline: Jeremy Hunt to announce plans to boost nursing numbers
- Headline: Jeremy Hunt pledges 5,000 extra trainee nurses places
- Headline: Urgent review of understaffing urged after nurses ‘blow the whistle’ on shortages
- Headline: Action 'being taken' on nurse staffing
- Headline: Nursing staff levels may be unsafe, warns RCN
- Headline: Half of Scottish nurses believe staff shortage has compromised patient care
- Headline: Staff shortages cost GWH Trust £15m last year
- Headline: Rachael Bletchly: Nurses are driven to despair by NHS cuts and staff shortages but Theresa May doesn't care
- Headline: Nurse shortages are putting patients' lives at risk and it's the same thing at Cornwall's largest hospital
- Headline: Nurses hand out postcards in Weybridge to protest cap on NHS pay
- Headline: Nurses reveal stress and impact on patients caused by staff shortage
United States
- Headline: Bay Area Nurses on Their Way to Puerto Rico to Provide Medical Aid
- Headline: Bay Area Nurses Heading To Puerto Rico To Assist In Hurricane Relief Effort
- Headline: Bay Area nurses deploy to Puerto Rico for Hurricane Maria relief work
- Headline: Local nurse helps people in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
- Headline: United Hospital Nurse Puerto Rico Bound For Hurricane Victims
- Headline: This St. Joe’s Nurse is En Route to Puerto Rico, and You Can Help Her Help People
- Headline: Hurricane Maria: United brings volunteers, flies evacuees to Newark from Puerto Rico
- Headline: AFL-CIO, several unions send volunteers to Puerto Rico
- Headline: RN Response Network Deploying Big Team to Puerto Rico
- Titular: Llega avión de sindicatos de la AFL-CIO con especialistas y suministros
Headline: AFL-CIO unions fly in with specialists and supplies - Headline: More than 300 protest Albert Lea hospital consolidation
- Headline: Murphy puts health care at center of campaign for governor
- Headline: As GOP attacks health care, movement for single-payer grows across country
- Headline: California game changers: birthing a single payer health care system
- Headline: Zelin: Medicare for All: An Argument for Implementation
- Headline: Ways you can make a difference for Puerto Rico
- Headline: Nurses union votes “no confidence” in United Medical Center leadership
- Headline: What will happen to Sutter's Berkeley hospital after state bill to save ERs?
- Headline: Preckwinkle unveils new budget as beverage tax repeal vote looms
- Headline: Transforming tribal healthcare at Standing Rock, South Dakota
- Headline: National Nurses United endorses former NAACP president Ben Jealous for Maryland governor