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International Nurse News Round-Up
Argentina
- Titular: Alta adhesión de enfermeros al paro, pero con atención mínima esencial
Headline: High participation of nurses on strike, but with minimum essential care - Titular: Enfermeros anunciaron un paro de 48 horas
Headline: Nurses announced a 48-hour work stoppage
Australia
- Headline: Nurses and Midwives Association backs new health chief
- Headline: Unions battling privatisation of NSW disability services
Brazil
- Manchete: MEMBROS DO FÓRUM SERGIPANO EM DEFESA DO SUS SE REÚNEM
Headline: Members of the Sergipano Forum in Defense of SUS meet - Manchete: Reunião do CNS delibera ações sobre a Política Nacional de Atenção Básica
Headline: Meeting of the CNS deliberates actions on the National Policy for Basic Care
Canada
- Titre: Les CHSLD sont devenus « des milieux de fin de vie », dénonce Harold LeBel
Headline: CHSLDs have become "end-of-life environments", denounces Harold LeBel - Titre: Appel à une amélioration urgente des conditions de vie des personnes âgées hébergées
Headline: Call for urgent improvement of the living conditions of elderly people
Ireland
- Headline: 'People should take to the streets and voice their anger' - Fears frontline health staff are in for a chaotic winter
- Headline: A&E overcrowding persists at Tullamore Hospital
- Headline: Local TD speaks of outrage at rising number of patients on trollies
- Headline: Listen: Kildare TD Raises Concerns About The Scale Of Over-Crowding At Naas General.
- Headline: Hospital breakdown: 9,206 elderly people forced to wait over 24 hours in Emergency Departments
Kenya
New Zealand
- Headline: More than $1m investment in new nursing positions for Hawke's Bay
- Headline: The world is acting on antibiotic awareness
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
South Africa
- Headline: Calls mount for KZN health MEC to be held accountable
- Headline: Bodies, bodies everywhere: Gauteng health needs help
South Korea
- Headline: Eulji University Hospital continues to be on a strike for 35days in a row. Two branches of the KHMU are on a strike for over a month now
- Headline: The KHMU Is Awarded The 25th Jeon Tae Il Labour Prize
Spain
- Titular: Crítica de Satse al último Interterritorial: "Han perdido una nueva oportunidad"
Headline: Satse's criticism to the Interterritorial: "They have lost a new opportunity" - Titular: Satse alerta del "cierre" de dos quirófanos en horario de tarde en el Hospital de Utrera (Sevilla)
Headline: Satse warns of the "closure" of two operating rooms in the afternoon at the Hospital de Utrera (Seville) - Titular: SATSE denuncia cierre quirófanos hospital Utrera para presionar trabajadores
Headline: SATSE denounces closure of Utrera hospital operating rooms to pressure workers - Titular: Satse ya pidió el traslado de pacientes tras el primer contagio de Aspergillus en agosto
Headline: Satse has already requested the transfer of patients after the first contagion of Aspergillus in August - Titular: Enfermeros alertan de que España no está preparada para cuidar a sus mayores
Headline: Nurses warn that Spain is not ready to care for their elders - Titular: Leopoldo Cejas-Fuentes, nuevo secretario general del Sindicato de Enfermería
Headline: Leopoldo Cejas-Fuentes, new general secretary of the Nursing Union - Titular: Satse denuncia el “maltrato” a los profesionales del Servicio Madrileño de Salud
Headline: Satse denounces the mistreatment of the Madrid Health Service employees
Taiwan
Uganda
United Kingdom
- Headline: More than one in 20 nurses have taken out a payday loan to pay bills, survey claims
- Headline: A quarter of nurses hold down two jobs: Staff taking on agency roles to boost their salary because they pay more per hour
- Headline: Four in ten NHS nurses unable to sleep because of financial anxiety, survey finds
- Headline: Nurses are losing sleep over money worries, survey finds
- Headline: The staggering number of nurses taking out payday loans revealed
- Headline: NHS nurses say they can’t sleep at night because of money worries
- Headline: NHS funding cuts 'will lead to 100 avoidable deaths per day'
United States
- Headline: MCMH faces new union push
- Headline: Trump Nominates Big Pharma CEO for Health and Human Services Secretary
- Headline: HHS nominee Azar to get Senate hearing Nov. 29
- Headline: Southern Movement Assembly Creates a Framework With a Labor Sensibility for Southern Struggles
- Headline: Barton Health nurses to vote on joining union
- Headline: Barton Health nurses vote to join California Nurses Association labor union
- Headline: Barton Health RNs vote to unionize
- Headline: Barton nurses vote to unionize
- Headline: Long Beach officials push to keep Community Medical Center open
- Headline: As hospitals spend millions on seismic upgrades, Community Medical Center’s future in Long Beach is uncertain
- Headline: Stroller Brigade and Rally Held in Berkeley to Save Alta Bates Medical Center
- Headline: Judge denies union effort to block Duluth health system’s flu shot requirement
- Headline: Tax-exempt Mayo Clinic grows, but rural patients pay a price
- Headline: United Medical Center nurses say Bowser won't honor their contract
- Headline: Violence against nurses in hospitals not routinely tracked, reported