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International Nurse News Round-Up
Australia
- Headline: Nurses Union Pushes for Nurse to Patient Ratio Legislation
- Headline: ANMF launches powerful new advertising campaign targeting protection of penalty rates
- Headline: ANMF Launches New Advertising Campaign
- Headline: Wagga Wagga nurses slow elective surgeries in response to major staff shortage at new hospital
- Headline: 1400 RPA staffers have lost their car parking passes with a multistorey car park being privatized
Brazil
- Manchete: Atendimento em Hospital de Macaé é normalizado após fim de greve
Headline: Care in Macaé Hospital is normalized after the end of strike - Manchete: Enfermeiros realizam manifestação em maternidade de Manaus
Headline: Nurses hold demonstration at Manaus maternity
Canada
- Headline: Unions may get more bargaining power with new Alberta labour bill: U of C prof
- Headline: Nurses' union takes Alberta to court over nursing home staffing
Titre: Tensions entre des infirmières et le CISSS de l'Outaouais - Headline: Tensions between nurses and Outaouais CISSS
Titre: «Je ne demanderai jamais à une infirmière de laver les toilettes» - Headline: “I would never ask a nurses to wash the toilets”
- Headline: Nurses fear job cuts at Orillia Hospital
- Headline: Guelph General Hospital nurse bitten, had urine thrown in face
- Headline: Province, nurse managers and supervisors sign deal
- Headline: N.B. signs new collective agreements with health care unions
- Headline: Alberta public sector workers to be allowed to strike under proposed legislation
Colombia
- Titular: Enfermeras y especialistas de hospital de Valledupar protestan por falta de pago
- Headline: Nurses and specialists of Valledupar hospital protest over lack of pay
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Médicos y enfermeras protestan frente a Palacio con sus bocas tapadas
Headline: Doctors and nurses protest in front of the Palace with their mouths covered - Titular: Personal de salud protestó “mudo” frente al Palacio
Headline: Health personnel protested “silent” in front of the Palace - Titular: Médicos protestan con la boca tapada
Headline: Doctors protest with covered mouths - Titular: Médicos y enfermeras montarán vigilia frente al Palacio Nacional
Headline: Doctors and nurses mounted vigil in front of National Palace
France
- Titre: Les anesthésistes en grève le mardi 22 mars
Headline: Anesthetists on strike Tuesday, March 22
India
- Headline: Nurses’ strike put on hold after Health Minister’s assurance
- Headline: Nurses federation postpones strike after J P Nadda’s assurance
- Headline: Nurses' unions call off strike
- Headline: Nurses postpone strike after assurance by health minister
- Headline: Chandigarh: Over 2,000 nurses to go on strike from Tuesday, resident doctors refuse to work in their place
- Headline: Meeting fails to cut ice with nurses’ unions
Ireland
- Headline: HSE assures nurses on efforts to tackle hospital overcrowding
- Headline: INMO happy overcrowding plan will be implemented
- Headline: Emergency departments '400 nurses short' of safe levels
- Headline: Nurses ‘dread’ working on St Patrick’s Day- INMO
- Headline: Nurses' union disappointed as HSE is 'short senior people' during crucial A&E strike talks
- Headline: Third of women giving birth by c-section with main-factor seen as increasing age of first-time mothers
- Headline: Over 500 people on trolleys in Irish hospitals
Mexico
- Titular: Protestan enfermeras; piden basificación y mejor salario
Headline: Nurses protest; ask “basification” [turn temporary jobs into permanent ones] and more wages - Titular: Asoma paro de enfermeras
Headline: Nurses’ strike shows - Titular: Amenazan enfermeras con paro laboral en Semana Santa
Headline: Nurses threaten work stoppage at Easter - Titular: Protestan enfermeras(os)
Headline: Nurses protest - Titular: Se manifiestan enfermeras por aumento de salario
Headline: Nurses demonstrate for wage increase
New Zealand
South Korea
- Headline: Emergency medical units too crowded in South Korea
- Headline: Incheon St. Mary's Hospital Receives 'Obstacle to Gender Equality Award' on March 8 2016 International Women's Day
Spain
- Titular: Trece años de enfermería con contratos temporales en el Hospital del Mar
Headline: Thirteen years of nursing with temporary contracts at the Hospital del Mar - Titular: El sindicato de Enfermería advierte del «abandono» del Hospital Monte Naranco de Oviedo
Headline: The Nursing Union wards of “abandonment” of Hospital Monte Naranco de Oviedo - Titular: SATSE pide que no impongan a las enfermeras "actuaciones ilegales"
Headline: SATSE asks that they not impose on the nurses “illegal actions” - Titular: Satse reclama una nueva Ley contra las agresiones a los sanitarios
Headline: Satse calls for a new law against attacks on health workers - Titular: Satse observa un aumento de agresiones a enfermeras y afirma que el botón "antipánico" no funciona
Headline: Satse sees an increase in attacks on nurses and says that the “panic” button doesn’t work - Titular: SATSE denuncia un aumento de agresiones al personal de enfermería como consecuencia del deterioro de las condiciones laborales
Headline: SATSE denounces an increase in attacks on nursing staff as a consequence of the deterioration of working conditions - Titular: El Sindicato de Enfermería se manifiesta ante la sede del Salud para exigir mejoras salariales y laborales
Headline: The Nursing Union demonstrates at the Health headquarters to demand better wages and labor - Titular: Médicos y enfermeras reclaman apoyo de la Administración ante las agresiones
Headline: Doctors and nurses demand help from the Administration against the attacks - Titular: Miles de firmas para volver a las 35 horas semanales
Headline: Thousands of signatures to return to the 35-hour week
UK
- Headline: Hospital chiefs slammed after failing to attend meeting on planned fertility unit closure
- Headline: Nursing associate role “will lead to less registered nurses”, say RCN members
- Headline: Former A&E doctor attacked four nurses in a drunken rage when she was taken to hospital while off duty
USA
- Headline: Kaiser Permanente nurses strike in California, pick up support from Bernie Sanders
- Headline: Reclaim Chicago Hits The Streets To Get Out The Vote For Progressive Candidates
- Headline: It’s not over til it’s over: inside the Sander’s campaign’s do-or-die moment
Titular: Sector de enfermería sigue firme en paro de labors - Headline: Nursing industry remains steadfast in work stoppage
Titular: Enfermeros de Kaiser Permanente hacen paro laboral - Headline: Kaiser Permanente nurses hold work stoppage
Titular: Enfermeras realizan paro de labores en Los Ángeles - Headline: Nurses carry out work stoppage in Los Angeles
Titular: Enfermeras inician huelga en Los Ángeles, California - Headline: Nurses begin strike in Los Angeles, California
Titular: Enfermeras realizan paro de labores en Los Angeles - Headline: Nurses carry out work stoppage in Los Angeles
- Headline: New Report Claims More than 2700 instances of unsafe staffing in Minnesota Hospitals Since 2014
- Headline: KAISER PERMANENTE NURSES ON STRIKE, DEMAND IMPROVEMENTS IN WAGE, STAFFING
- Headline: Minnesota nurses report record 2,741 unsafe staffing incidents
- Headline: Joy, sorrow for Jews as John Kasich beats Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton beats Bernie Sanders in Ohio
- Headline: Unionized news outlet shuns big labor for backing Clinton
- Headline: Another Major Union Just Endorsed Bernie Sanders
- Headline: Kaiser Permanente nurses launch strike for higher wages, more staffing
- Headline: Nurses begin 7-day walkout at Los Angeles Medical Center
- Headline: Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center nurses begin weeklong strike
- Headline: Kaiser Permanente Nurses Begin Weeklong Strike
- Headline: Kaiser LA Medical Center RNs to strike over staffing, wages
- Headline: Kaiser Permanente nurses launch strike for higher wages, more staffing
Venezuela
- Titular: Enfermeros: aumentan el trabajo pero no los salarios
Headline: Nurses: increase the work but not the wages