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International Nurse News Round-Up
Bahamas: Nurses Threaten – 'We Won't Turn Up'
Australia
- Headline: Union movement mounts onslaught to put Liberals last
- Headline: Want to improve care in nursing homes? Mandate minimum staffing levels
- Headline: Provider and worker representatives to lead industry review
- Headline: Nurses rally against overcrowding
- Headline: Bupa nursing home in South Hobart stripped of federal funds over failure to meet regulator standards
- Headline: ANMF Tasmania escalates industrial action by banning overtime in theatres
Bahamas
- Headline: Nurses protest
- Headline: Nurses in GB stage solidarity protest
- Headline: Nurses Threaten – 'We Won't Turn Up'
Canada
- Headline: TBDHU nurses call meeting to present counter-offer
- Headline: Thunder Bay health unit's 'final offer' unacceptable, nurses union says
- Titre: L’interruption du service d’obstétrique à Bathurst est « inacceptable », affirme une médecin
Headline: Interruption of obstetrical care in Bathurst is "unacceptable," says doctor - Titre: Des infirmières praticiennes n’arrivent pas à trouver du travail au Nouveau-Brunswick
Headline: Nurse Practitioners cannot Find Work in New Brunswick - Titre: Obstétrique à Bathurst: «Ce n’est que la pointe de l’iceberg et ça situation pourrait empirer»
Headline: Obstetrics in Bathurst: “It’s just the tip of the iceberg and it could get worse” - Titre: Santé : nouvelle entente votée à 81,2 %
Headline: Health: new agreement voted 81.2% - Headline: Keep our nurses safe
- Headline: TBDHU nurses call meeting to present counter-offer
- Headline: Striking public health nurses in Thunder Bay appeal to Doug Ford for assistance
- Headline: Premiers announce agreement in principle on flow of alcohol across borders
- Headline: Job and funding cuts worry Sudbury's nurses
- Headline: Striking nurses await response
- Headline: Groundbreaking legal action alleges nursing home chains put profit ahead of care
- Headline: Bathurst obstetrics unit closed because province didn't heed warnings, union says
- Headline: Bathurst hospital obstetrics closed again
- Headline: Flu shot clinics underway to help rebound from this year’s deadly season
Honduras
- Titular: Enfermeras auxiliares y médicos en servicio social anuncian paros
Headline: Auxiliary nurses and social service doctors announce strikes - Titular: Aneah anuncia lucha para que Salud no cierre cursos de enfermería
Headline: Aneah announces fight so that Health Ministry does not close nursing courses - Titular: Secretaría de Salud notifica el cierre de los cursos de enfermeras auxiliares
Headline: Ministry of Health notifies the closing of auxiliary nurses courses
Ireland
- Headline: Agency nurses 'paid over €10,000 more a year than public staff'
- Headline: 'It’s not even peak season' - INMO records worst ever October for hospital overcrowding
- Headline: INMO Report Highest Ever Overcrowding Levels In October
- Headline: This month is worst October on record for hospital overcrowding
- Headline: Health services facing another chaotic winter
- Headline: Nurses seek direct talks with health service on pay
- Headline: UHG IS SECOND WORST HOSPITAL IN COUNTRY FOR OVERCROWDING
- Headline: Worst October on record for hospital overcrowding, says nurses’ union
- Headline: 129 patients stuck on trolleys for nine hours or longer
Kenya
- Headline: Seth Panyako arrested for inciting KNH nurses to strike
- Headline: Panyako arrested over KNH nurses’ strike
- Headline: KNH allows nurses to join union
- Headline: Nurses accuse KNH of barring them from union
- Headline: Health workers accuse Kenyatta hospital of blocking them from joining union
- Headline: Kenya National Union of Nurses issues a 7 day strike notice
- Headline: KNH nurses resume work after assurances on complaints
- Headline: Nurses’ union boss Seth Panyako arrested as KNH workers strike
New Zealand
- Headline: NZNO applauds Abortion Law Reform Report
- Headline: Hospitals begin push to fill staffing shortages
- Headline: NZ nurses group says promotion of Pacific labour ‘insulting‘
Nigeria
Portugal
- Manchete: Sindicatos desconvocam greve prolongada dos enfermeiros nos blocos cirúrgicos
Headline: Unions dismiss long-term nurses' strike in surgical blocks - Manchete: Enfermeiros do Centro Hospital Tondela Viseu prometem greve
Headline: Nurses at Tondela Viseu Hospital Center promise strike - Manchete: Enfermeiros. Longa greve mal convocada?
Headline: Nurses. Lengthy strike ill-conceived?
Spain
- Titular: Satse reclama al Gobierno un aumento del gasto sanitario público de hasta el 7,5% del PIB
Headline: Satse demands the government increase public health spending up to 7.5% of GDP - Titular: Extender la titularidad de las oficinas más allá de los farmacéuticos, nueva petición de Satse
Headline: Extending the ownership of the offices beyond the pharmacists, Satse's new request - Titular: Especialidades enfermeras, el siguiente avance tras el RD de prescripción
Headline: Specialist nurses, the next breakthrough after the prescription RD - Titular: El sindicato Satse indica que en Balears faltan 3.534 enfermeras
Headline: The union Satse indicates that Balears lacks 3,534 nurses - Titular: Carrera profesional: exigen que médicos y enfermeros no fijos accedan ya
Headline: Professional career: calls for reforms for non-permanent doctors and nurses - Titular: Satse gana una sentencia que obliga al SAS a reconocer a un enfermero interino de Huelva el nivel de carrera profesional
Headline: Satse wins a judgement that forces the SAS to recognize a temporary nurse from Huelva at the professional level - Titular: Madrid. satse madrid pide al gobierno regional la contratación de más de 6.000 enfermeras
Headline: Madrid. Satse Madrid asks the regional government to hire more than 6,000 nurses - Titular: Satse, "muy contento" por la abstención de Ciudadanos a la Ley de Farmacia
Headline: Satse, "very happy" citizens abstained from voting for the Pharmacy Law - Titular: SATSE y ANPE proponen que se destinen enfermeros a los centros educativos de Baleares
Headline: SATSE and ANPE propose that nurses be assigned to schools in the Balearic Islands
United Kingdom
- Headline: Violence against nurses could see body cameras rolled out across the NHS
- Headline: 'Budget boost for mental health will be worthless without nurses'
- Headline: Brexit: NHS Tayside told to expect staff exodus post-Brexit
- Headline: Violence against NHS staff in England reaches five-year high
- Headline: Clampdown on violence against NHS staff
United States
- Headline: Federal labor board finds Johns Hopkins Hospital tried to deter nurses from forming union
- Headline: Will California elections stop ‘an unhinged president’? Put us on ‘a path to gridlock’?
- Headline: Medicare for All policy has become politics' sticking point
- Headline: 'Medicare for all' suddenly popular on campaign trail even in deep-red states: ANALYSIS
- Headline: VA and 11,000 Nurses Reach Impasse as Secretary Rejects Negotiated Contract Proposal
- Headline: Medicare For All PAC Announces First Candidate Endorsements
- Headline: Federal anti-union charges against Johns Hopkins Hospital move forward
- Headline: NLRB: Johns Hopkins tried to deter nurses from unionizing
- Headline: National Labor Relations Board: Johns Hopkins Tried To Deter Nurses From Unionizing
- Headline: California nurses move their ‘Medicare-for-all’ fight to the national stage
- Headline: Family says baby almost died at hospital because no nurses were around
- Headline: Election 2018: Trump looms over it all
- Headline: Calif.’s nurse staffing law offers lessons for Mass.
- Headline: Johns Hopkins stifled unionizing efforts, federal labor board finds
- Headline: Opinion: This nurse supports Jovanka Beckles, who has long been fighting for our health care
- Headline: Marlo Rodriguez Runs for City Council District 6
- Headline: Will California elections stop ‘an unhinged president’? Put us on ‘a path to gridlock’?
- Headline: Battle in Blue Country: How A Sleepy Assembly Race Got Real Ugly, Real Fast
- Headline: PROP 10 HAS ALREADY WON
- Headline: On Question 1, What Can Massachusetts Learn From California?
- Headline: Maine State Nurses Association endorses Question 1, refutes false claims from opposition