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International Nurse News Round-Up
Hong Kong: Time to be more receptive to overseas-trained doctors and nurses. Photo: RTHK
Australia
- Headline: Nurses and Midwives' Association claims victory in dispute with Hunter New England Health
- Headline: Aged care ratios: the right call?
- Headline: Union calls for nursing home changes after redundancies at Nazareth House
- Headline: Audit the 'tip of the iceberg' for aged care facilities
Brazil
- Manchete: Reunião do Conselho Nacional de Saúde (CNS) debate Atenção Básica, Fórum Social Mundial e saúde dos imigrantes venezuelanos
Headline: Meeting of the National Health Council (CNS) debates Basic Attention, World Social Forum and health of the Venezuelan immigrants - Manchete: Presidente da FNE se reúne com líder do Governo e debate assuntos da Enfermagem
Headline: President of FNE meets with Government leader and debates nursing issues
Canada
- Headline: Quebec nurses push for new law to limit nurse-to-patient ratios
- Headline: Angry Quebec nurses push for lower patient ratios, less overtime
- Headline: Audit calls for action to recruit more nurses in remote and rural B.C.
- Headline: Alberta, registered nurses ratify deal that includes wage freeze, job security
- Headline: United Nurses of Alberta delegates ratify three-year deal with Alberta Health Services
- Headline: They might not be doctors, but these health-care professionals say they could be doing more
- Headline: Accepting violence in P.E.I. health care: 'The culture needs to change'
- Titre: Crise des infirmières: Barrette s'engage à revoir à la baisse les ratios
Headline: Crisis of nurses: Barrette agrees to lower ratios - Titre: Des projets-pilotes pour tester les ratios d’infirmières
Headline: Pilot projects to test nurse ratios - Titre: Trois-Rivières: nurses working conditions still in the hot seat
Headline: Trois-Rivières: les conditions de travail infirmières encore sur la sellette - Titre: La Vérif : plus d'heures supplémentaires des infirmières, plus de risques de décès de patients
Headline: Check : more nurses' overtime, more risk of patient deaths - Titre: Le personnel de l'hôpital de Lodève, près de Montpellier, entame une grève illimitée
Headline: The staff of Lodève hospital, near Montpellier, starts an indefinite strike
Hong Kong
- Headline: In Hong Kong’s public hospitals, distressed nurses left feeling like Allied troops at Dunkirk
- Headline: Time to be more receptive to overseas-trained doctors and nurses
Italy
Ghana
- Headline: Striking Ankaful nurses back to work – Health Ministry
- Headline: Health personnel at Ankaful Hospital on strike
Ireland
- Headline: Hospitals invoked top-level protocol for tackling overcrowding hundreds of times
- Headline: ‘Unattractive’ consultant posts draw no applications
- Headline: Number of midwives leaving health service 'significantly' outpaces recruitment
Kenya
- Headline: Siaya nurses on strike over Sh420m unpaid salaries
- Headline: Embu contract nurses strike demanding permanent employment
- Headline: Stalemate in health sector deepens
- Headline: Patients robbed of dignity in congested hospitals
- Headline: [VIDEO] 6,000 medics suffering in 'Nasa counties', Panyako says, threatens legal action
Mexico
- Titular: Levantan en Oaxaca paro de médicos y enfermeras
Headline: Doctors and nurses strike in Oaxaca - Titular: Continua el paro de enfermeros del Salvatierra; exigen pagos de hasta 3 quincenas
Headline: Salvatierra nurse's strike continues; require payments of up to 3 fortnights
New Zealand
- Headline: Dearth of jobs for graduate nurses adds to looming nurse shortage
- Headline: Funding in Auckland health sector not keeping up with population growth, politicians told
- Headline: Christchurch's Hillmorton Hospital plagued by safety issues
Peru
Portugal
- Headline: Doctors and nurses drive wave of strikes set to hit Portugal
- Manchete: Enfermeiros mantêm greve apesar de anúncio de pagamento de subsídio
Headline: Nurses strike despite subsidy payment announcement - Manchete: Enfermeiros marcam dois dias de greve nacional
Headline: Nurses mark two days of national strike - Manchete: Enfermeiros e médicos ponderam greves
Headline: Nurses and doctors weigh strikes
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
- Titular: Enfermería lleva a la UE los fallos españoles en el manejo de biopeligrosos
Headline: Nursing brings to the EU the Spanish failures in the handling of biohazards - Titular: Los opositores de salud mental llevan 4 meses esperando las notas
Headline: The mental health opponents have been waiting for the notes for 4 months - Titular: Colectivos aplauden el proyecto, pero exigen un Chare además en la zona este
Headline: Collectives applaud the project, but demand a hospital center in the eastern district - Titular: SATSE denuncia un nuevo "colapso" en Urgencias "sin que la gripe pueda ser excusa"
Headline: SATSE denounces a new "collapse" in the Emergency Room "without the flu being an excuse" - Titular: Demandan enfermeros en las Urgencias del Infanta Margarita
Headline: Nurses in demand at the Infanta Margarita Emergency Room - Titular: Satse critica que la Unidad de Neonatos haya estado tres días a cargo de una sola enfermera para once bebés
Headline: Satse critical of neonatal unit where single nurse was in charge of eleven infants for three days - Titular: Enfermeros gallegos denuncian que son el "colectivo más agredido" del Sergas
Headline: Galician nurses denounce that they are the "most attacked collective" of Sergas - Titular: Satse denuncia “las pésimas condiciones laborales” en el Materno-Infantil
Headline: Satse denounces "the terrible working conditions" in the Mother-Infant Hospital - Titular: El sindicato de enfermeras reclama los prometidos botones antipánico para evitar agresiones
Headline: Nurses union demands promised panic buttons to avoid attacks - Titular: Satse León organiza un curso de defensa tras conocer que el 57% de los enfermeros reconoce haber sufrido agresiones
Headline: Satse León organizes a defense course after learning that 57% of nurses acknowledge having suffered attacks - Titular: Satse pide al SAS que defienda la capacidad de la enfermería para dirigir Unidades de Gestión Clínica
Headline: Satse asks SAS to defend nurses’ ability to lead Clinical Management Units - Titular: Enfermeros alertan de "pésima" gestión enel aumento de las urgencias en el área norte
Headline: Nurses warn of "terrible" management in the increase of emergencies in the northern area - Titular: Denuncian falta de personal de Enfermería en el hospital
Headline: Lack of hospital nursing staff denounced
United Kingdom
- Headline: Nurses should call doctors by their first names to prevent patient deaths, says Jeremy Hunt
- Headline: NHS England has one in 11 posts unfilled
- Headline: Improvement framework for children and young people’s services launched by regulator
- Headline: These NHS Staff Were Told The Swine Flu Vaccine Was Safe, And Now They're Suffering The Consequences
United States
- Headline: Nurses Throughout California Rally Against Supreme Court Case
- Headline: Salinas nurses say Supreme Court case could undermine patient care
- Headline: Nurses to St. Joe CE: ‘respect nurses and other health care workers’
- Headline: Healthcare leaders worry Supreme Court case on union fees could hurt workplace harmony and quality of care
- Headline: Minnesota Nurses Association approve of new Red Wing labor contract