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International Nurse News Round-Up
Argentina: Justice orders reincorporation of Posadas Hospital workers
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Australia
- Headline: Three Tasmanian nurses have been violently assaulted in an overcrowded hospital
- Headline: Nurses punched and bitten in Launceston General Hospital emergency department
- Headline: Male midwife breaks down gender barriers and says men need to bring their A-game every day
- Headline: Canberra Hospital ED one of three 'putting patients at risk'
- Headline: Tasmanian mental health patients languish in emergency departments for up to for six days
- Headline: Patients spent up to six days waiting in Royal Hobart Hospital ED for psych bed, stats show
Canada
- Headline: Data shows big disparity in hospital occupancy rates
- Titre: Le CISSS des Laurentides signe l’entente avec la FIQ
Headline: CISSS des Laurentides signs agreement with FIQ - Titre: Action collective: vaincre la peur des représailles
Headline: Collective action: overcoming the fear of reprisals - Headline: St. Boniface hospital needs 200 more nurses: NDP candidate
- Headline: Helping those in health care
- Headline: Nova Scotia introduces $1.4m nurse practitioner incentive program
- Headline: 'We know better': Medical professionals react to Caraquet woman's stage 4 bedsore
Dominican Republic
Honduras
- Titular: ¡Cuidado con las estafas ! en escuelas de enfermería “de maletín” recomienda la ANEEAH
Headline: Beware of scams! of nursing schools "out of a briefcase" recommends the ANEEAH - Titular: ¡Al fin! Se aprueba contratación de 280 plazas para auxiliares de enfermería
Headline: Finally! Hiring of 280 places for nursing assistants is approved
India
Ireland
- Headline: Clontarf Hospital lost 26% of its staff in just two years
- Headline: Pay and burnout forcing nurses out of Ireland, says INMO
- Headline: INMO warns that poor pay and short staffing are driving nurses out
- Headline: Government’s plans for 2,600 more hospital beds ‘will not be sufficient’
- Headline: Listen: INMO Says Nursing Roles Must Be Expanded.
- Headline: Listen: HSE Can't Retain Nurses Because Of Pay & Conditions.
- Headline: 40% Increase In No. Of People On Trolleys At Naas General.
- Headline: Nurse challenges dismissal of racial discrimination complaint
- Headline: Indian nurse alleges racial discrimination after being passed over for promotion 11 times
Kenya
- Headline: No health services as go-slow persists
- Headline: Congestion crisis in Mbagathi Hospital as mothers share beds
Malta
New Zealand
- Headline: New Zealand nurses' strike spotlights fiscal challenge for government
- Headline: 'Be fair to those who care': New Zealand hospitals in chaos as 30,000 nurses strike
- Headline: Health Minister David Clark out of the country before nurses' strike
- Headline: Nurses strike: 'That is the offer' - David Clark
- Headline: Patient supporting nurses' strike despite searing pain, surgery delay
- Headline: Nurses return to work as national strike ends
- Headline: New Zealand teachers and nurses to hold first mass strike in a generation
- Headline: Rotorua nurses rally at Kuirau Park as strike action begins
- Headline: Nurses made the right decision
Philippines
- Headline: Health workers call for P16-K national minimum wage
- Filipino: DAGDAG-PONDO| Alliance of Health Workers nagsagawa ng kilos protesta sa harapan ng DBM
Headline: DAGDAG-PONDO | Alliance of Health Workers protest in front of the DBM
Portugal
- Manchete: ULS GUARDA ANUNCIA A CONTRATAÇÃO DE 16 ENFERMEIROS, SINDICATO DOS ENFERMEIROS PORTUGUESES DIZ QUE É UMA “GOTA NO OCEANO”
Headline: ULS GUARDA ANNOUNCES THE HIRING OF 16 NURSES, UNION OF PORTUGUESE NURSES SAYS IT IS A "DROP IN THE OCEAN" - Manchete: Ordem alerta Ministério da Saúde para suicídios entre enfermeiros
Headline: Ministry of Health Issues Alert Order for Suicides Among Nurses - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros diz que ministro está a falhar diagnóstico
Headline: Union of Nurses says minister is failing diagnosis
South Africa
- Headline: It's painful to be called uneducated, says community care worker
- Headline: Healthworkers say they are undervalued and poorly equipped
Spain
- Titular: Denuncian agresiones a enfermeros en dos centros de salud en una semana
Headline: Nurses denounce aggressions in two health centers in one week - Titular: SATSE pide a la Junta adaptar el complemento específico de los enfermeros a la realidad de su trabajo
Headline: SATSE asks the board to adjust nurses bonuses to match the reality of their work - Titular: SATSE demanda retribuciones acordes e igualitarias para los enfermeros de CyL
Headline: SATSE demands equal salaries for CyL nurses - Titular: SATSE exige unas “retribuciones acordes” para los enfermeros de la comunidad en su puesto de trabajo
Headline: SATSE demands "commensurate rewards" for community nurses at their workplace - Titular: Los enfermeros denuncian el cierre de 14.000 camas en verano en toda España
Headline: Nurses denounce the closure of 14,000 beds during summer throughout Spain - Titular: Montón quiere “nuevos roles” para Enfermería: ¿cuáles pide el colectivo?
Headline: Montón wants "new roles" for Nursing: what does the union ask for? - Titular: Enfermeros denuncian una plaga de cucarachas en centro de salud de L'Eliana
Headline: Nurses denounce a plague of cockroaches in L'Eliana health center
United Kingdom
- Headline: Immigration 'vital' for care industry's future
- Headline: Nurses say they are struggling to keep patients safe
- Headline: RCN concerned nursing associate role ‘remains ill-defined’
- Headline: RCN calls for greater nursing input in designing NHS IT systems
- Headline: Nursing course applications have crashed by third in two years
- Headline: How do NHS staff protect their physical and mental health?
United States
- Headline: “Medicare-for-all” means something. Don’t let moderates water it down.
- Headline: Turnover rate among Blake Medical Center nurses is high. Here's what they're doing about it.
- Headline: Nurses picket, fighting for staffing changes
- Headline: HCA nurses picket at five Tampa Bay area hospitals over staffing concerns
- Headline: Osecola nurses rally for staffing changes: report
- Headline: Nurses picketed Thursday to protest shortage at major hospitals
- Headline: ‘We had a nurse almost strangled with IV tubing’
- Headline: Nurses picket at local hospitals during contract negotiations
- Headline: Andrew Gillum Surging in Democratic Primary for Florida Governor
- Headline: DFL candidates in race for Minnesota governor highlight health care plans
- Headline: Health: US Soldiers In Liberia Receive 4 Hours Of Ebola Training And Are Quartered In Hotels
- Headline: Tax haircuts and concerts – or the rich? Californians consider the options
Venezuela
- Headline: Venezuelan Nurses’ Strike for Better Salaries and Work Conditions
- Titular: Enfermeras cumplen 15 días de protesta para exigir salarios justos
Headline: Nurses carry out 15 day protest to demand fair wages - Titular: VIDEO | Personal de enfermería de hospital en Carúpano protestó para exigir reivindicaciones salariales
Headline: VIDEO | Hospital nursing staff in Carúpano protested to demand wage claims