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International Nurse News Round-Up
Australia
- Headline: Govt faces growing rebellion over workers compo
- Headline: Bid to cut nurses' overtime not addressing root cause, union says
- Headline: Unions back calls to include super in PPL
- Headline: Health Minister Michael Ferguson puts cap on nurses’ overtime
- Headline: Queensland Nurses Union worried about Gympie jobs amid looming aged care centre closure
- Headline: Truss calls for smooth transition in aged care system
Canada
- Headline: Alberta coal taking its lumps as phase-out fight goes public
- Headline: The cost of cargiving: how compassion fatigue is hurting Manitoba helpers
- Headline: QHC proposes cutting 162 positions
- Headline: Nurse assaulted by patient at Hants Community Hospital, RCMP say
Congo
- Titre: Kasaï-Oriental: deuxième jour de grève des infirmiers
Headline: East Kasai: second day of nurses’ strike - Titre: Grève des infirmiers : le gouvernement plaide pour un service minimum
Headline: Nurses’ strike: government calls for minimum service
Honduras
India
- Headline: Civic hospitals' nurses on strike
- Headline: Nurses at Delhi civic body-run hospitals go on strike
- Headline: NURSING A KEY PROFESSION
Ireland
Kenya
- Headline: Kenya: Nurses Want Okoa Kenya to Help Push for Formation of a Health Service Commission
- Headline: Health Workers Cry Foul After NHIF Declines to Cater for Comprehensive Treatment
Mexico
Pakistan
Philippines
Portugal
Spain
- Titular: Satse alerta del cierre de consultas en el centro de especialidades de Fleming por la falta enfermeras
Headline: Satse alerts about the closure of consultations in the Fleming specialties center for lack of nurses - Titular: El Sindicato de Enfermería de Madrid exige el cese inmediato de los Pactos de Gestión
Headline: The Nursing Union of Madrid demands the immediate halt of Management Pacts - Titular: Podemos se declara ‘anti-RD’ de prescripción
Headline: Podemos declares “anti-RD” on prescription - Titular: Enfermería ya tiene listo su arsenal jurídico
Headline: Nursing readies its legal arsenal - Titular: Los enfermeros denuncian contagios de una bacteria por falta de camas
Headline: The nurses denounce infections of a bacteria for lack of beds
UK
- Headline: Frontline hospital staff are the punch bag of strained NHS- nurses’ union warns
- Headline: Biggest nursing union to ballot for industrial action
- Headline: Violence: Rise in attacks on NHS staff in Bradford could be just the ‘tip of the iceberg’
USA
- Headline: Nurses’ Union Sides With Sanders Over Clinton in Democrats’ Health Care Battle
- Headline:SuperPAC Or Not, This Group Has Money To Bern For Sanders
- Headline: Sanders campaign ‘honored’ by $500k support from super PAC
- Headline: March to end debt joins nationwide protest
- Headline: Trumka kicks off anti-TPP drive at town hall meeting in New Hampshire
- Headline: Nurses Rip Clinton on Single Payer
- Headline: UC Santa Cruz Students Participate in Million Student March
- Headline: Students protest rising tuition
- Headline: UCSB #MillionStudentMarch Exceeds Expectations With Crowd of 1500
- Headline: Catching Sanders Fever
- Headline: Clinton sheds progressive façade with bold rightward lurch
- Headline: Hillary Clinton attacks Bernie Sanders’ plan for single-payer healthcare
- Headline: Opponents spread the word about hazards posed by TPP
- Headline: Nurses Hold Rally, Speak Out on Unsafe Patient Lift Practices at UC Medical Centers
- Headline: Boston: opioid bill designed to ‘disrupt status quo’
- Headline: County Supervisors Approve Nurse Labor Contract
- Headline: Massachusetts Nurses Association says opioid bill proposal would overburden emergency departments
- Headline: Mass. nurses call opioid bill a 'disservice'
- Headline: Nurses oppose extended ER commitments for addicts
- Headline: Dayton considers health review of PolyMet copper mine
- Headline: Labor Board prepared to take complaint against CHS to court