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International Nurse News Round-Up

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Travail posté de nuit : des risques pour la santé des infirmières


Shift work at night: the risks to nurses’ health
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Australia

Nursing students kicked and punched during clinical placements, research shows

Queensland election 2015: Labor promises to employ an extra 400 health workers

Nurses call for health professionals to be exempted from WA Government budget savings measures

Internal report exposes major safety risks at Royal Perth Hospital

Farmers and unions question scheme which provides drilling funding to mining companies
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Canada

Union wants CAMH criminally charged after nurse “beaten beyond recognition”

Another Nurse Beaten at CAMH, ONA Blame Insufficient Funding for Hospitals

Nurses decry delay in cancer centre

Patient beating of nurse raises safety concerns anew; union blames staff cuts

Patient beating of nurse raises safety concerns anew; union blames staff cuts

Patient beating nurse raises safety concerns anew

Ministry of Labour investigating alleged attack on CAMH nurse

CAMH nurse assaults result of staffing cuts, union says

Nurse beating again raises safety concerns

CAMH nurse assaults result of staffing cuts, union says

Les infirmières investies de nouveaux pouvoirs
Nurses invested with new powers
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Chile

Enfermeras en huelga denuncian que las reemplazan con menores de edad
Striking nurses complain they are being replaced with minors
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France

Infirmières toujours en grève aux urgences traumatiques de Purpan (Toulouse)
Nurses still on strike at traumatic emergencies in Purpan (Toulouse)
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Honduras

Enfermeras hondureñas no han recibido aguinaldos
Honduran nurses have not received bonuses
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Ireland

Nurses to protest at conditions in A&E

Nurses to vote for industrial action

Irish hospitals: Record number of patients waiting for beds

Number of patients on trolleys drops sharply after record highs

Patient left in ambulance for 90 minutes because Galway Hospital had no trolley to spare

Nurses body concerned about overcrowding at Cork hospitals

STATE OF EMERGENCY: Nurses’ strike likely as 600 are on trolleys

Midwest Nurses and Midwives consider strike action
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Kenya

Nurses Reject Bid to Abolish Allowances

Nairobi health workers issue strike notice
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Mexico

Enfermeras tambien organizaron marchas en los estados
Nurses also organized marches in the states

Marcha enfermeras en diversos estados
Nurses march in a variety of states

(LA JORNADA) SINTESIS NACIONAL
National Synthesis

Enfermeras en pie de Lucha!
Nurses in the fight

No habrá paro de enfermeras
There will not be a nurses’ strike

Convocan enfermeras marcha el 6 de enero
Nurses convene march on January 6

Marchan enfermeras en el Edomex
Nurses march in the State of Mexico

Enfermeras “festejaran” en las calles del pais
Nurses "will celebrate" on the streets of the country

Enfermeros marchan en la Ciudad de México en demanda de reconocimiento professional
Nurses march in Mexico City to demand professional recognition

Reconocen la labor de enfermeras
Recognize the work of nurses

Miles de enfermeras realizan manifestacion en el DF
Thousands of nurses hold demonstration in Mexico City

Exigen enfermeras mejora salarial, sindicato se deslinda de movimiento
Nurses demand salary improvement, union disclaims movement

Impulsan formacion de enfermeras
Driving training of nurses
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Nigeria

Katsina health workers vow to continue with strike

Kwara health workers continue strike

In solidarity, Zamfara health workers set for strike

Zamfara State Health Workers Threaten To Join Strike

Nigeria: Nurses, Midwives Begin Full Strike

Nigeria: FG, Striking Health Workers Locked Over Failed Meeting
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Philippines

P16 Thousand Minimum Wage Urged to avert more hunger, deprivation
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Portugal

Indicato de Enfermeiros acusa Governo de não apostar no sector
Nurses union accuses government of not betting on sector
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Sierra Leone

Ebola: nurses go on strike in northern Sierra Leone


Sierra Leone nurses strike over Ebola hazard allowances

S. Leone nurses strike over Ebola hazard pay amid lockdown

Sierra Leone nurses strike over Ebola hazard pay amid lockdown

S. Leone nurses strike over Ebola hazard pay

Sierra Leone hospital staff strike over Ebola payments
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Spain

Satse denuncia el «colapso» de las Urgencias del Infanta Margarita
Satse denuncia the “collapse” of de Infanta Margarita emergency department

Las enfermeras denuncian la “tomadura de pelo” de Montoro con la devolución de la extra

Las urgencias hospitalarias viven una vuelta de la Navidad colapsadas
Hospital emergency departments collapse around Christmas
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UK

Proposed new willful neglect law could scapegoat nurses

EXCLUSIVE: Scandal of NHS hospital wards with so few staff they are unsafe

Hospitals should display nurse numbers, say Tories

Nurse critically ill with Ebola praised for bravery by RCN

Nurses in Wales will get lump sum payment in January pay packet


Wards should display nurse numbers, say Scottish Conservatives
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USA

Another View: Nurses on the side of patients, not profits

Registered Nurses at Community Hospital Approve First-Ever Collective Bargaining Agreement

Zephyr Teachout, Hands Up United and John Oliver Made Our 2014 Progressive Honor Roll. Who Else Made the List?

Proposed regulations would mandate nurse staffing levels in state’s intensive care units

En huelga enfermeras de Washington Hospital Center

DC Nurses Strike Over Labor Practices

Nurses strike at Medstar Washington Hospital Center

Registered Nurses at Medstar Washington Hospital stage strike

Nurses at Washington Hospital Center strike Monday

Nurses Go On Strike at Medstar Washington Hospital Center

Nurses on Strike at Washington Hospital Center

Nurses at Medstar Washington Hospital Center Hold One-Day Strike

Medstar nurses strike at Washington Hospital Center

Nurses Stage 24-Hour Strike at WHC, Which Retaliates with 10-Day Lockout

CentraCare requires flu vaccine for workers, volunteers

NLRB orders 2 W.Va. hospitals to recognize nurses union

Nurses' union hails NLRB order as victory

Planned sale of 6 hospitals to for-profit ignites debate

Nurses to hold vigil at Washington Hospital Center

Texas Matters: The Lessons Of Ebola

12 Great Advocacy Stories in 2014

The great PetKoch battle of the Southeast Side

Health care workers protest sale of St. Francis Medical Center

Daughters of Charity protest in San Jose: It's nurses versus healthcare union at rally
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Zimbabwe

Nurses threaten to go on strike