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International Nurse News Round-Up
Australia
- Headline: OPINION: Border Force Act contradicts duty of care
- Headline: Who cares for nurses’ health?
- Headline: Nurses at Cabrini Health, Malvern threaten industrial action
- Headline: National midwife shortage puts pressure on Canberra hospitals; no jobs for new graduates
- Headline: New Royal Adelaide Hospital hit with costly delay to avoid winter peak flu season
Brazil
- Manchete: Enfermeiros do Nosso Lar cogitam greve
Headline: Nurses of Nosso Lar consider strike - Manchete: Protesto de funcionários de hospital particular pede redução de jornada
Headline: Protest of hospital employees asks reduction in work day - Manchete: Sem previsão de salário, enfermeiros do Nosso Lar devem entrar em greve
Headline: Without salary forecast, the Nosso Lar nurses should go on strike - Manchete: Enfermeiros são agredidos com frequência em MS, diz Sindicato
Headline: Nurses are assaulted often in MS, says union
Canada
- Titre: Infirmières: la grève se profile à l’horizon dans l'Est du Québec
Headline: Nurses: the strike is looming on the horizon in Eastern Quebec - Headline: Workers celebrated at Labour Day barbecue
- Headline: Nurses say lack of resources affecting their ability to properly care for patients
- Headline: Make health a priority
- Headline: Union says nurses can’t be forced to wear masks in flu season
- Headline: Public Nurses Wait for Response
- Headline: Nurses urge voters to take a stand on health care cuts
- Headline: Nurses union worried health care not on federal election radar
- Titre: Les patients au rendez-vous pour la première clinique sans médecin
Headline: Patients appointment for first clinic without doctors - Headline: ONA Local 46 spearheaded battle to strike down policy; SAH 'disappointed' by the arbitrator’s decision
- Headline: Old stock Canadians? Social media used for fun and fact checks during debate
- Titre: FIQ et CSN manifestent lors d'un discours de Coiteux
Headline: FIQ and CSN demonstrate at speech by Coiteux
Chile
- Titular: Servicio de Salud Coquimbo manifiesta su disconformidad con paro de enfermeras
Headline: Coquimbo Health Service expresses its disagreement with nurses’ strike - Titular: Enfermeras y enfermeros responden a críticas del Servicio de Salud Coquimbo
Headline: Nurses respond to criticism of Coquimbo Health Service - Titular: Enfermeras de Coquimbo y La Serena marchan y entregan petitorio al Servicio de Salud
Headline: Nurses Coquimbo and La Serena march and deliver petition to Health Service
Congo
Costa Rica
- Titular: Huelga en Hospital de La Anexión va para largo
Headline: Strike in La Anexión Hospital goes for long - Titular: Sindicatos reunidos en Limón analizan huelga general que realizarían en el mes de octubre
Headline: Unions gathered in Limón analyze general strike that will be held in month of October
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Comienzan protestas en sector dominicano de la Salud
Headline: Protests begin in Dominican health sector - Titular: Enfermeras requieren 5 % del PIB para el sector de la salud
Headline: Nurses require 5% of GDP for health sector - Titular: Fedosalud advierte que sin 5% el Servicio Nacional de Salud fracasará
Headline: Fedosalud warns that without 5% of the National Health Service will fail - Titular: Afirman cinco por ciento del PIB a la salud en la República Dominicana
Headline: They assert five percent of GDP to health in the Dominican Republic - Titular: Enfermeras exigen incremento de salarios y pensiones
Headline: Nurses demand increase of salaries and pensions - Titular: Pacientes desbordan Moscoso Puello; gremios exigen 5% PIB
Headline: Patients overflow Moscoso Puello ; unions demand 5% of GDP - Titular: Enfermeras dicen teleférico no es una prioridad cuando languidece servicio de salud
Headline: Nurses say cable car is not a priority when health service languishes
France
- Titre: 35 heures à l'AP-HP: les grévistes réclament un médiateur
Headline: 35 hours a AP-HP: the strikers demand a mediator - Titre: Hôpitaux de Paris: les agents en grève manifestent contre la réforme des 35 heures
Headline: Paris Hospital: striking workers demonstrate against the 35-hour reform
Ireland
- Headline: Nurses protest over disability cuts
- Headline: INMO criticises "dangerous" situation as elderly man is left on trolley for five days
- Headline: Our Lady of Lourdes hospital declared 'dangerous' by Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation
- Headline: INMO may take industrial action due to overcrowding
- Headline: Elderly man on trolley for five days in Drogheda ED
- Headline: Pensioner spends five days on trolley in overcrowded hospital
- Headline: Emergency department at Lourdes Hospital “severely overcrowded”
- Headline: New €16.5m UHL complex set to free up beds
- Headline: Public service pay increase deal to be formally ratified
- Headline: Nursing staff backlog shuts beds
- Headline: EU study blames long shifts for nurse burnout
Kenya
- Headline: Ministry Holds Talks Over Strike of Nurses
- Headline: Union Asks Parliament to Help Set Up National Health Service Commission
- Headline: Kenya's public-sector teachers, nurses go on strike
- Headline: Doctors, Nurses Threaten Strike Over Pay Flaws
- Headline: Nyeri County Sacks Striking Nurses, Advertises Their Jobs
Mexico
- Titular: Enfermera heridos
Headline: Nurse injured - Titular: Se manifestan enfemeras de Mazatlán en SSA de Culicán
Headline: Mazatlán nurses demonstrate in SSA of Culicán
New Zealand
Panama
- Titular: Enfermeras con nueva escala salarial
Headline: Nurses with new pay scale - Titular: Gobierno y enfermeras anuncian acuerdo sobre escala salarial
Headline: Government and nurses announce accord over pay scale - Titular: Enfermeros tendrán salario base de mil 80 dólares
Headline: Nurses will have base salary of $80,000 - Titular: Salario base de enfermeras será de $1080 a partir de enero de 2016
Headline: Base salary of nurses will be $1080 from January 2016
Poland
- Headline: Polish Nurses Set to Strike over Low Pay
- Headline: Polish nurses call for rise in Warsaw protest
Portugal
- Manchete: Enfermeiros com contrato individual terão melhores salários, promete PS
Headline: Nurses with individual contracts will have better wages, PS promises - Manchete: Enfermeiros e Governo agendam nova reunião
Headline: Nurses and Government schedule new meeting
Spain
- Titular: Turnos de más de 12 horas: enfermeras agotadas e insatisfechas
Headline: Shifts longer than 12 hours: nurses out and dissatisfied - Titular: El Sindicato de Enfermería solicita a Domínguez ampliar la OPE
Headline: The Nursing Union requests Dominguez expand OPE - Titular: Alertan de que el cierre de quirófanos en el Materno ha postergado 220 operaciones
Headline: Warned that the closure of operating rooms in the Maternity has delayed 220 operations - Titular: Protesta ante la Cámara por el estado del hospital "privado" de Vigo
Headline: Protest at the House over the state of Vigo “private” hospital - Titular: El sindicato de enfermería Satse reclama la Mesa de la Sanidad para la devolución de los recortes
Headline: The nursing union claims the Board of Health for the return of cuts - Titular: Profesionales y pacientes denuncias el "caos" del nuevo hospital de Vigo
Headline: Professionals and patients denounce the “chaos” in the new Vigo hospital - Titular: Quejas por la supresión de una enfermera en el Nóvoa Santos
Headline: Complaints over the suppression of a nurse in Nóvoa Santos
UK
- Headline: Anger over agency nurses on double pay brought into Fairfield Hospital
- Headline: Children’s palliative care is ‘challenge’ for Welsh nurses
USA
- Headline: How U.S. Hospitals Are Defending Themselves Against The Next Big Outbreak
- Headline: The Outsider: How Bernie Sanders is Winning over Democratic Voters
- Headline: One Year Later, U.S. Nurses Feel Unprepared For The 'Next Ebola'
- Headline: Labor for Bernie Pushing Unions To Back Bernie Sanders, Prevent Early Hillary Clinton Endorsements
- Headline: Man charged after stabbing two nurses at Knoxville hospital
- Headline: Nurses bash 'The View' hosts, start #NursesUnite social media campaign
- Headline: ‘The View’ loses two national advertisers after mocking nurses
- Headline: “The View” Nurses Controversy: Advertisers Bail On Show
- Headline: #NursesUnite: Critical to patient experience, nurses fight back after being dismissed
- Headline: North Adams mayoral candidates debate health care, hospital closing
- Headline: North Adams mayoral candidates debate hospital closure future
- Headline: Norton to push for stricter gun laws in final term
- Headline: Coalition advocates taxing the “1 percent” on ‘occupy’ anniversary
- Headline: CNA report deserves a serious response from St. Joseph
- Headline: Agreement Reached In Contract Dispute Between Henry Mayo Nurses And Hospital Officials
- Headline: Patient stabs two nurses at Knoxville, Tenn. Hospital
- Headline: North Memorial punished nurse applicant who wanted sabbath off
- Headline: Area hospitals boost flu worker vaccination rates
- Headline: Labor movement celebrated at Brewer event