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International Nurse News Round-Up
Australia: Nurses and midwives from John Hunter Hospital voice their concerns about staffing levels. Picture: Marina Neil
Australia
- Headline: What is it like to be a nurse in Australia?
- Headline: Staff 'extremely concerned' over cuts at nursing home: Union
- Headline: SA nurses threaten industrial action over new RAH safety concerns
- Headline: Health workers attacked and abused over hospital smoking ban
- Headline: Vic hospital's smoking ban could be reviewed
- Headline: Nurse shortage for Upper Spencer Gulf hospitals
- Headline: Staff shortages blamed for problems with hospital care
- Headline: Rural South Australian nurses are threatening industrial action at four rural hospitals
- Headline: SA nurses consider industrial action
- Headline: Neroli Ellis replaces Nicole Wells on Tasmanian Industrial Commission
- Headline: Bendigo Health backs hospital smoking ban
- Headline: Weatherill ‘to go it alone’ on $1bn hospital site redevelopment
- Headline: Ministers’ resignations force Jay Weatherill into cabinet reshuffle
- Headline: Union members hit phones for Yes campaign
- Headline: Nurse injured after alleged assault by psychiatric patient at Dandenong Hospital
- Headline: John Hunter Hospital nurses are fed up with staff shortages during worst flu season on record
- Headline: NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association launches anti-violence campaign
- Headline: Nurses' protest calls for more hands on deck at Blacktown Hospital
- Headline: Belmont Hospital fails to meet minimum nurse staffing requirements
- Headline: John Hunter Hospital nurses and midwives demand a fix to short-staffing problem
Brazil
- Manchete: FNE participa de reunião do CNS e debate revisão da PNAB
Headline: FNE participates in CNS meeting and discusses review of PNAB - Manchete: Presidente em exercício da FNE participa de debate no Conselho Estadual de Saúde da Bahia
Headline: President-in-Office of the FNE participates in a debate at the State Health Council of Bahia
Canada
- Headline: Nursing shortage forces Hull Hospital to relocate surgeries
- Headline: Don’t Let NAFTA 2.0 Stand In The Way Of Pharmacare
- Headline: WRHA says it's ready for health care overhaul
- Titre: Des infirmières courtisées jusqu’en France, un geste prématuré selon la FIQ
Headline: Nurses recruited from France, a premature gesture according to the FIQ - Titre: Un dur été pour les patients et le personnel du CIUSSS
Headline: A tough summer for patients and staff of CIUSSS - Headline: New attacks on workers' rights in Nova Scotia
Dominican Republic
Guatemala
- Titular: Salubristas bloquean carreteras del país
Headline: Health workers block country roads - Titular: Trabajadores en contra de la implementación de hospital para reclusos
Headline: Workers against the implementation of hospital for prisoners - Titular: Salubristas bloquean varios puntos del país
Headline: Health workers block several points of the country
Honduras
Ireland
- Headline: Doctors, nurses and midwives to accept public service pay agreement
- Headline: Doctors, nurses and midwives accept new public service pay deal
- Headline: Doctors, nurses and university lecturers vote in favour of public service pay deal
- Headline: Almost 500 sick people waiting for hospital beds across Ireland
- Titre: Pénurie d’infirmières au bloc opératoire du CUSM
Headline: Nursing shortage at the MUHC operating room - Headline: Overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick worst in country
- Headline: Trolley Watch sees big rise in 24 hours of patients waiting to be admitted
- Headline: Number of patients waiting for a bed in Letterkenny hospital doubles overnight
- Headline: Public service unions to ratify new pay deal
- Headline: Over 300 patients waiting for a hospital bed nationally - and 11 in LUH
Kenya
- Headline: Nurses dig in, fault SRC and governors over stalemate
- Headline: Governors vow to dismiss all striking nurses
- Headline: Union boss reveals two National Super Alliance leaders behind nurses’ strike
- Headline: Counties start advertising nurses’ jobs
- Headline: Firing of striking nurses begins in counties
- Headline: Governor Samboja forms taskforce to probe healthcare challenges
- Headline: Police disperse striking nurses from Afya house
- Headline: Cops teargas nurses during peaceful march to Parliament
- Headline: Kenya: Nurses Firm on Strike Amid Threats to Send Them Home
- Headline: Panyako demands closure of nursing colleges amid standoff
- Headline: Kenya: Governors Vow to Dismiss All Striking Nurses
New Zealand
- Headline: Safe staffing ratios make nurses “happy again”, says visiting US union leader
- Headline: Nurses organisation 'concerned' by midwife's poverty, incest post
- Headline: Patients left waiting as Wellington nurses and midwives struggle under pressure
- Headline: Ticks and crosses as NZNO compares party promises ahead of election
Nigeria
Paraguay
- Titular: Enfermeras piden equidad a Hacienda
Headline: Nurses ask for equity in budget - Titular: “Al sistema de salud le faltan 5.000 enfermeros”
Headline: "The health system lacks 5,000 nurses" - Titular: “Hace 8 años que el área de enfermería no cuenta con mejora salarial”
Headline: "For 8 years the nursing area has not had a salary improvement"
Peru
Portugal
- Manchete: "Ministro está a proteger os dele", acusa Sindicato dos Enfermeiros
Headline: "Minister is protecting his own," accuses Union of Nurses - Manchete: Enfermeiros exigem aumento mínimo de 400 euros até ao fim do ano e ameaçam com mais uma greve em outubro
Headline: Nurses demand a minimum increase of 400 euros by the end of the year and threaten another strike in October - Manchete: Apesar de compromisso do Governo, Sindicato dos Enfermeiros mantém greve
Headline: Despite a commitment from the Government, the Nurses' Union maintains strike - Manchete: Enfermeiros querem aumento mínimo de 400 euros
Headline: Nurses want minimum increase of 400 euros - Manchete: Enfermeiros pedem aumento de 400 euros. Ministro diz que é "absolutamente incomportável"
Headline: Nurses ask for an increase of 400 euros. Minister says it is "absolutely unfeasible" - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros Portugueses avança com greve de três dias
Headline: Union of Portuguese Nurses advances with three-day strike - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros prepara nova paralisação para depois das autárquicas
Headline: Union of Nurses prepares new strike
South Africa
- Headline: Schools‚ municipalities and mines expected to be disrupted by Cosatu march
- Headline: #CosatuStrike - 10 things you should know
- Headline: Cosatu march to bring city to standstill
- Headline: DENOSA supports COSATU National Strike
- Headline: Mental illness stigma fuels suicidal tendencies
Spain
- Titular: La Enfermería pide 140.000 profesionales más sólo para llegar a la media europea
Headline: Nursing calls for 140,000 more professionals only to reach the European average - Titular: Madrid. El Sindicato de Enfermería anima a denunciar la falta de enfermeras en las residencias
Headline: Madrid. The Nursing Union denounces the lack of nurses in nursing homes - Titular: La Consejería de Salud decide recuperar la carrera profesional ante el recelo del sector
Headline: The Ministry of Health decides to recover the professional career before the suspicion of the sector - Titular: Manifestación de trabajadores de la Casa de Misericordia por «un convenio digno»
Headline: Demonstration of workers of the House of Mercy for "a worthy agreement" - Titular: Satse condena el asesinato de la cooperante segoviana en Afganistán
Headline: Satse condemns murder of Segovian aid worker in Afghanistan - Titular: Satse acude a los tribunales para recuperar la jornada de los 35 horas tras el incremento del PIB
Headline: Satse goes to court to recover the 35 hour work week after the increase in GDP - Titular: Los enfermeros exigen triplicar la subida de sueldo propuesta por Hacienda
Headline: Nurses demand to triple the salary increase proposed by the Treasury - Titular: Satse rechaza las «irreales» cifras del SAS sobre las listas de espera
Headline: Satse rejects the "unreal" SAS figures on waiting lists - Titular: Satse Extremadura exige 35 horas laborales semanales "con plena seguridad jurídica"
Headline: Satse Extremadura demands the 35 working hours per week "with full legal certainty" - Titular: Satse considera "insuficiente" el número de enfermeras para Atención Primaria
Headline: Satse considers the number of nurses for Primary Care "insufficient" - Titular: Satse denuncia la saturación de las Urgencias del Hospital de Galdakao
Headline: Satse denounces the saturation of the ER of the Galdakao Hospital - Titular: Satse denuncia "la saturación" de las Urgencias del Hospital de Galdakao, con "boxes doblados y pacientes en pasillos"
Headline: Satse denounces "the saturation" of the Emergency Hospital of Galdakao, with "boxes folded and patients in corridors" - Titular: Satse pide la apertura de la quinta planta del hospital
Headline: Satse calls for opening of the fifth floor of the hospital - Titular: Sindicatos valoran el incremento de plantilla en atención primaria pero lo consideran "absolutamente insuficiente"
Headline: Unions support the increase in staff in primary care but consider it "absolutely insufficient"
United Kingdom
- Headline: Nursing unions demand 3.9% pay rise and £800
- Headline: Too many patients die alone on understaffed wards, say nurses
United States
- Headline: A growing movement for single-payer health care
- Headline: Until Elected Officials Champion Medicare for All, They Can Expect Nurses at Their Offices — and in Their Seats
- Headline: Why do nurses support Sen. Sanders’ Medicare for All Act?
- Headline: We Need Nurses More Than Ever. Why Are We Letting Them Burn Out?
- Headline: Healers as Fighters: Union Convention Celebrates Power of Organized Nurses In Trump Era
- Headline: It Shouldn't Take a Hurricane to Gain Health Care Access: Nurses Report Back From Disaster Zones
- Headline: Bernie Sanders Addresses Healthcare at Nurses Union Convention
- Headline: Sanders’s bill electrifies growing single-payer movement
- Headline: ‘Run Bernie run’ – California crowd wants Sanders for president in 2020
- Headline: The push for single-payer healthcare just went national. What does that mean for the California effort?
- Headline: More unions jump on single-payer caravan
- Headline: Antonio Villaraigosa jabs at Gavin Newsom over his apparent embrace of single-payer healthcare bill
- Headline: Fil-Am nurses join union support for Sen. Sanders' single-payer health care system
- Headline: How Bernie Sanders is cultivating California for 2020
- Headline: Kaiser nurses rally statewide, including Vallejo, Vacaville
- Headline: Kaiser nurses hold protest rally in Santa Rosa for more staffing
- Headline: Nurses protest at more than 20 Kaiser locations over staffing
- Headline: Nurses at Kaiser Permanente rally for patient care
- Headline: Kaiser nurses rally for better patient care, staffing
- Headline: Corporate owner of Doctors Medical Center, under pressure to cut losses, may be sold
- Headline: Arm in arm: Organized labor in SLO County
- Headline: Minnesota Nurses Association endorses Rep. Erin Murphy for governor
- Headline: Nurses union exec suggests U.S. asks: is health care a right or a privilege?
- Headline: Alta Bates closure may be prevented with passing of bill through state assembly
- Headline: MSNBC Panel Trolls Sanders With 'Scurrilous, Illogical' Assault on Medicare for All
- Headline: A Diagnosis for American Health Care
- Headline: Newsom backs single-payer plan
- Headline: Gubernatorial Candidate Vows ‘Firm And Absolute Commitment’ To Universal Health Care
- Headline: Time for California to get moving on universal health care bill, Gavin Newsom says
- Headline: Supporters speak out for single-payer healthcare
- Headline: Sanders’s bill electrifies growing single-payer movement
- Headline: Military hospitals like DC's Walter Reed could ease national ER overcrowding, save lives
- Headline: Dawn of the Berniecratic Party
- Headline: Gavin Newsom says “it’s time to move” California single-payer health care bill along
- Headline: Is Single Payer Becoming a Litmus Test for Democrats?
- Headline: Bernie Sanders to Promote Medicare for All at San Francisco Nurses Convention
- Headline: Bernie Sanders to visit SF on Friday for state nurses convention
- Headline: Bernie Sanders’ Single-Payer Proposal Puts Spotlight Back on SB 562
- Headline: What's the next step toward Medicare for All?
- Headline: As GOP Attacks Health Care, Movement for Single-Payer Grows Across Country
- Headline: Why Are Centrist Democrats Bashing Bernie with Obamacare on the Brink?
- Headline: It shouldn’t take a hurricane to gain health care access: Nurses report back from disaster zones
- Headline: After wins against GOP, Democrats scramble to rally troops for another Obamacare fight
- Headline: ‘John McCain has a conscience,’ Bernie Sanders says in San Francisco
- Headline: California is Bernie Sanders’ battleground for health care