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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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