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International Nurse News Round-Up
Congo Ebola vaccination campaign begins with health workers
Australia
- Headline: Nurses union to meet with Healthscope today in attempt to save 400 jobs
- Headline: IRT workers to vote again on "substandard” offer
- Headline: Jobs To Go As Private Hospitals Close
- Headline: Vic nurses angry about redundancy pay
- Headline: 400 Vic hospital workers face joblessness
- Headline: Hiring more nurses will reduce number of preventable deaths in hospitals, research shows
- Headline: Nurses campaigning for more staff in Bathurst aged care facilities
- Headline: Labor uses female MPs in question time to make gender point – as it happened
- Headline: Illawarra nurses campaign for set nurse-to-patient ratios
- Headline: Union launches national campaign for minimum ratios in aged care
- Headline: Fairview Retirement Village gets onboard with nation-wide push to tackle chronic understaffing in the aged care sector
- Headline: Better nurse to patient ratios needed in Hunter hospital for improved health care and safety
- Headline: Nurses’ union stages International Nurses’ Day rally to campaign for staffing ratios – outside Labor MP’s office
- Headline: Two private hospitals to shut after operator says they're 'not viable'
- Headline: 'It's disgusting': Staff told of hospital closure by text, union says
- Headline: Two private hospitals to close in Victoria
- Headline: Nurses union pushes for staffing change in the Hunter
- Headline: 400 Vic hospital workers face joblessness
- Headline: New jobs after Vic private hospital closes
- Headline: Healthscope to close two Vic hospitals
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
- Headline: Alberta health-care unions launch back safety campaign calling for greater use of mechanical technology
- Titre: Combien de patients pour une infirmière?
Headline: How many patients for a nurse? - Titre: Conflit sur la mobilité
Headline: Conflict on mobility - Titre: 32 millions $ pour des heures supplémentaires au CIUSSS MCQ
Headline: $ 32 million for overtime at CIUSSS MCQ
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Gremios de enfermería declaran paro laboral en hospital Arístides Fiallo de La Romana
Headline: Nursing unions declare work stoppage at Arístides Fiallo hospital in La Romana - Titular: Enfermeras del Arístides Fiallo Cabral dan plazo para que nombren más personal
Headline: Arístides Fiallo Cabral nurses set date for appointing more staff
India
- Headline: State Govt’s notice to striking nurses
- Headline: Nipah Virus Leaves 6 Dead, 20 Infected in Kerala’s KozhikodeHeadline: Kerala nurse's death raises concerns for safety measures for medicos
- Headline: Nipah Virus: K’taka advises Malayali nurses, medical students to not go to Kerala
- Headline: Nursing students stage day-long hunger strike for demands
Ireland
- Headline: Nurses and midwives express 'serious concerns' over staffing levels at Mullingar Hospital
- Headline: BREAKING; Tipperary nurses to ballot for industrial action
- Headline: HOSPITALS IN CRISES Ireland’s hospitals have 2,299 fewer nurses than they had ten years ago – despite dramatic increase in the demands
- Headline: Offaly TD welcomes Tullamore Hospital recruitment drive announcement
- Headline: Overcrowding returns to Naas Hospital
- Headline: Tullamore has more people waiting for beds than Tallaght, Naas and St James' hospitals combined
- Headline: Tullamore remains one of the most overcrowded hospitals in Ireland today
Kenya
- Headline: Nurses asked to stay away from hospital's maternity block
- Headline: MBAGATHI HOSPITAL ON FIRE; MOTHERS, NEWBORNS STRANDED
- Headline: 600 nurses migrate annually in search for greener pastures abroad
- Headline: The Nairobi hopsital where nurses have been advised to keep off
New Zealand
- Headline: Panel recommends pay rise for nurses to avoid strikes
- Headline: Nurses say independent panel 'falls short' - cautiously awaiting new DHB offer
- Headline: Nurses to reportedly decide to strike this weekend
- Headline: Recommendations for nurses' pay rise 'fall short'
- Headline: Nurses unhappy with pay rise recommendations
- Headline: NZ Nurses Organisation says Government-appointed panel's recommendation of 3% pay rise does not go far enough
- Headline: Nurses' strike could still be on the cards as pay dispute continues
- Headline: Panel recommends nurses get immediate three per cent pay rise and one-off $2,000 sum
- Headline: Nurses' strike could still be on the cards as pay dispute continues
- Headline: Nurses want pay parity with teachers
- Headline: Nurses gather over human rights in Tauranga
Nigeria
- Headline: JOHESU: Blame FG, Health Ministry for death during strike
- Headline: NMA dominance in health sector responsible for strike: JOHESU
- Headline: JOHESU vows to continue strike
- Headline: JOHESU: Unresolved strike with many issues
Portugal
- Headline: Nurse crisis ‘threatens hospitals’
- Manchete: Enfermeiros em greve à porta do Hospital de Santa Maria para exigir "contratação imediata "de profissionais
Headline: Nurses on strike at the door of Santa Maria Hospital to demand "immediate hiring" of professionals
South Africa
Spain
- Titular: Satse presenta el manual 'La profesión enfermera, hoy' para conocer mejor la labor y competencias de las enfermeras
Headline: Satse presents the manual 'The nurse profession, today' to learn more about the work and skills of nurses - Titular: Satse exige a Amazon que deje de comercializar "cientos de productos con una imagen sexista de las enfermeras"
Headline: Satse demands Amazon stop marketing "hundreds of products with a sexist image of nurses" - Titular: El 87% de los enfermeros de Baleares cree que hay estereotipos sexistas vinculados con la enfermería
Headline: 87% of nurses in the Balearic Islands believe that there are sexist stereotypes linked to nursing - Titular: Movilizaciones de SATSE por el retraso en los procesos selectivos del SAS
Headline: SATSE mobilization due to the SAS delay on selective processes - Titular: El personal de Enfermería de Navarra se siente "humillado" por el consejero y le acusan de "mala praxis"
Headline: Nursing staff of Navarra feels "humiliated" by the counselor and they accuse him of "malpractice" - Titular: Satse: "El Observatorio de la Mujer debe ser una realidad cuanto antes"
Headline: Satse: "The Observatory on Women must be a reality as soon as possible" - Titular: Sanidad negocia con SATSE la subida de retribuciones pero recuerda que el Gobierno establece limitaciones
Headline: Health Ministry negotiates salary increases with SATSE but maintains Government limitations - Titular: El sindicato Satse critica la falta de enfermeras en la Unidad del Dolor del CHUO
Headline: Satse criticizes the lack of nurses in CHUO Pain Unit - Titular: ANPE y SATSE consideran "indispensable" la figura de la enfermera escolar
Headline: ANPE and SATSE consider "indispensable" the figure of the school nurse
United Kingdom
- Headline: The NHS pay deal – accept or reject?
- Headline: 'Accommodation must be considered if the NHS is to retain staff'
- Headline: Tories axe nearly 700 'essential' children's nurses from schools
- Headline: How HMRC’s IR35 reforms are destroying locum nurses’ livelihoods and patient care
- Headline: Welshpool nurses looking to First Minister to stop renal services being privatised
- Headline: Community trusts concerned about shortage of ‘linchpin’ nursing staff
- Headline: Bid to retain Wigan's nursing staff
- Headline: Backing for Welshpool's under-threat dialysis nurses
United States
- Headline: Senate Votes to Extend Community Care for Veterans
- Headline: SRMC nurses reach tentative settlement in contract talks
- Headline: Sweeping VA reforms to increase private care, expand caregiver benefits approved
- Headline: $5.2B bill extending VA private sector options passes Congress
- Headline: Senate on verge of passing further VA privatization
- Headline: Trump’s VA Strips Protection From Workers’ Contract
- Headline: Glasson: changes to Medicaid, collective bargaining motivated run for governor
- Headline: Houlton hospital making headway in reducing its debt