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International Nurse News Round-Up
Ireland: Patients forced to wait as ambulances queue outside St Lukes Emergency Department
Argentina
- Titular: Se necesitan 100.000 enfermeros más en el país
Headline: 100,000 more nurses needed in the country - Headline: Government turns to overseas recruitment to fill nursing vacancies
- Headline: Aged-care nurses rally in Melbourne
- Headline: Bupa aged care workers in VIC reject 11% pay offer over three years
- Headline: Tasmanian nurses fear wage rise caps will deliver lowest national pay and skills exit
- Headline: Medication stocks at some Royal Adelaide Hospital wards are dangerous low, staff warn
- Headline: Big pharma's cash splash on nurses, dietitians and pharmacists for services
- Headline: Wollongong Hospital's maternity services failing mums, staff
- Headline: Public-private partnership for Shellharbour Hospital scrapped
- Headline: Claims 320 eight-hour shifts have not been filled in the past 10 months at Hornsby Hospital
Brazil
Canada
- Headline: Peter Watts: Home care a growing concern
- Headline: Health unit, nurses enter conciliation to try to reach collective agreement
- Headline: Manitoba health care changes improving system: WRHA
- Headline: Liberals' last throne speech aimed at consumers, workers
- Headline: New workplace regulations in New Brunswick aim to prevent violence
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Gremios de Salud paralizarán desde hoy todos los hospitales
Headline: Health unions will strike at all hospitals starting today - Titular: Los hospitales están repletos de pacientes tras concluir tres días de paro médico
Headline: Hospitals are full of patients after completing three days of medical strike - Titular: Personal salud del Estado marcha para que gobierno cumpla acuerdos
Headline: State health workers march for government to reach agreements - Titular: Sindicato de enfermería recupera oficina en Cabral y Báez, tras una semana de lucha
Headline: Nursing union recovers office in Cabral and Báez, after a week of struggle - Titular: Enfermeras hospital Cabral y Báez de Santiago, anuncian huelga para este miércoles
Headline: Cabral and Báez Hospital nurses in Santiago announce strike for this Wednesday - Titular: Fedosalud anuncia paro de 48 horas en hospitales públicos
Headline: Fedosalud announces 48-hour strike in public hospitals
Ireland
- Headline: Demand for health services to jump
- Headline: Care staff will not have pay docked after being told not to go to work during Storm Ophelia
- Headline: Patients forced to wait as ambulances queue outside St Lukes Emergency Department
- Headline: Minister convenes emergency team over superbug CPE
Kenya
- Headline: Governor's change of mind leaves nurses' union official out in the cold
- Headline: Nurses’ union says CoG and Health CS frustrating signing of CBA
New Zealand
- Headline: New govt largely seen as good for health
- Headline: Canterbury DHB 'extremely concerned' at increasing assaults on mental health staff
Paraguay
- Titular: Convocan a manifestación de enfermeras
Headline: Call for demonstration of nurses - Titular: Enfermeros se movilizarán para tener mayores recursos en el rubro
Headline: Nurses will mobilize to have greater resources in the field - Titular: Enfermeros están en terapia y piden un aumento del 30%
Headline: Nurses are in crisis and request an increase of 30% - Titular: Tormenta no detuvo marcha de enfermeras por el centro
Headline: Storm did not stop nurses march through the center - Titular: Enfermeras se movilizan para exigir mejor salario
Headline: Nurses mobilize to demand better salary - Titular: Pese a la lluvia, enfermeras se movilizan este jueves
Headline: Despite the rain, nurses are mobilizing this Thursday - Titular: Enfermeros anuncian "marea blanca"
Headline: Nurses announce "white tide" - Titular: Gremio de enfermeros descarta trasfondo político en movilización
Headline: Nurses' Guild denies political agenda in mobilization - Titular: Enfermeros paraguayos protestan en Asunción por una mejor sanidad pública
Headline: Paraguayan nurses protest in Asunción for better public health
Philippines
Portugal
South Africa
Spain
- Titular: Los enfermeros podrán prescribir determinados medicamentos
Headline: Nurses may prescribe certain medications - Titular: Satse aplaude la puesta en marcha de la prescripción de enfermería
Headline: Satse applauds the implementation of the nursing prescription - Titular: Los enfermeros empezarán a recetar determinados medicamentos
Headline: Nurses will start prescribing certain medications - Titular: Fin a la guerra de la prescripción enfermera
Headline: End of the war over the nurse prescription - Titular: El Sindicato de Enfermería afirma que "los recortes no han acabado" y pide que aumente el porcentaje del PIB en Sanidad
Headline: The Nursing Union affirms that "the cuts are not over" and calls for an increase in the percentage of GDP in Health - Titular: Denuncian falta de enfermeras en la UCI infantil de Son Espases
Headline: Report of lack of nurses in the children's ICU of Son Espases - Titular: Pide un protocolo contra las agresiones a enfermeros
Headline: Calls for a protocol against attacks on nurses - Titular: Los enfermeros reclaman medidas contra las "continuas" agresiones que sufren en sus puestos de trabajo
Headline: Nurses call for measures against "continuous" assaults on their jobs - Titular: SATSE dice actitud de la patronal puede llevar a huelga en la sanidad privada
Headline: SATSE says attitude of the bosses can lead to strike in private health - Titular: Satse llama a la huelga a la sanidad privada madrileña
Headline: Satse calls strike to Madrid's private healthcare - Titular: Satse insiste en que el Gobierno continúa con los recortes en Sanidad
Headline: Satse warns that the Government will continue to cut Health budget
United Kingdom
- Headline: Nurses warn of a ‘blind spot’ in new system of recording NHS staff assaults
- Headline: Government to stop recording assaults on NHS staff
- Headline: Scrapping staff assault data collection to create ‘dangerous blind spot’
- Headline: ‘There are not enough registered nurses to go round’ - Colchester Hospital suffers staff shortage
United States
- Headline: Nurses returning from Puerto Rico accuse the federal government of leaving people to die
- Headline: “As Puerto Rico suffers, where is our government?” Nurses Join Congress Members to Urge Action on Healthcare Crisis
- Headline: How Is FEMA Helping Puerto Rico? The National Nurses' United Says It's "Leaving Them To Die"
- Headline: Nurses in Puerto Rico See First-Hand Health Crisis from Climate Disasters
- Headline: California Nurses Say Puerto Rico Residents Are 'Desperate' After Hurricane
- Headline: Puerto Rico’s plight, Trump’s response dominates a day at AFL-CIO
- Headline: Eureka nurse returns from Puerto Rico relief mission
- Headline: Water-borne infections push Puerto Rico death toll higher
- Headline: This Merced nurse went to help in Puerto Rico. Now she’s going to Washington D.C.
- Headline: Puerto Ricans at Risk of Waterborne Disease Outbreaks in Wake of Hurricane Maria
- Headline: The Time to Move Off Fossil Fuels is Now
- Headline: Eureka nurse returns from Puerto Rico relief mission
- Headline: About 1 Million Americans Without Running Water, 3 Million Without Power
- Headline: US Labour Movement Steps Up For Puerto Rico
- Titular: Enfermeras acusan a Administración de “abandonar” a damnificados en Puerto Rico
Headline: Nurses accuse Administration of "abandoning" victims in Puerto Rico - Titular: Nancy Pelosi percibe ineptitud en el contrato de Whitefish
Headline: Nancy Pelosi perceives ineptitude in Whitefish contract - Titular: Enfermeras que vinieron de misión a la isla acusan al gobierno federal de "dejar morir a la gente"
Headline: Nurses who came from mission to the island accuse the federal government of "letting people die" - Headline: Bangor Nurse Returns Home after Aiding in Relief Efforts in Puerto Rico
- Headline: Redding nurse returns from relief mission in Puerto Rico
- Headline: Bay Area Nurses Improvise as First Responders
- Headline: Universal health care debate returns to California Capitol
- Headline: California Nurses Association rallying for single-payer healthcare plan for California
- Headline: Special Assembly committee begins hearings on health insurance
- Headline: Instead of health care for all, Assembly has a do-nothing committee
- Headline: Tri-City Medical Center Nurses OK Labor Deal
- Headline: California debates implementing universal health care
- Headline: Universal health care debate returns to California Capitol
- Headline: The Minnesota Nurses Association wants to have a big say in who the next governor is
- Headline: AFL-CIO resolution pleases Medicare-For-All advocates
- Headline: Ames teach-in addresses health care 'crisis'
- Headline: United Medical Center's operator is replacing the hospital's CEO. Vincent Gray isn't satisfied.
- Headline: Dem divisions in California complicate party hopes
- Headline: Imagine our way beyond neoliberalism: A dialogue with Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin