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International Nurse News Round-Up
Australia
- Headline: More nursing jobs in Qld as patient ratios introduced
- Headline: New nurse-to-patient ratio to see 250 nurses hired in Queensland
- Headline: More nursing jobs in Qld as patient ratios introduced
- Headline: Staff to protest Stockton Centre closure
- Headline: Night shift nurses call for equal rates after pay 'oversight'
- Headline: n Nursing and Midwifery Federation expects up to 110 redundancies at Essendon Private Hospital
- Headline: QNU secretary Beth Mohle has described the redevelopment of the old Royal Children’s Hospital site as a great opportunity
- Headline: Frustrations rise over workforce
Brazil
Canada
- Titre: Des infirmières occupent le bureau de Sam Hamad
Headline: Nurses occupy the office of Sam Hamad - Headline: Rally protests health-care cuts
- Titre: La FIQ manifeste devant le bureau de Jacques Daoust
Headline: FIQ demonstrates in front of the office of Jacques Daoust - Headline: Registered nurses will pick up more shifts at Marshall Gowland Manor following arbitrator’s ruling
- Titre: La FIQ se bute à une porte fermée
Headline: FIQ comes up against a closed door - Titre: Action surprise de professionnels au bureau de la ministre Charbonneau
Headline: Surprise action of professionals at the office of Minister Charbonneau - Titre: Négociations dans le secteur public
Headline: Negotiations in the public sector - Titre: La privatisation du secteur de la santé est en marche
Headline: The privatization of the health sector is in motion - Headline: Santa breakfast cancelled, $26 million in cuts coming at St. Joe's
Congo
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Enfermeras del Cabral y Báez radicalizarán lucha con suspensión de servicios en emergencias
Headline: Nurses of Cabral y Báez radicalize struggle with suspension of emergency services - Titular: Enfermeras de Mao realizan paro por 24 horas
Headline: Mao nurses hold strike for 24 hours
Greece
- Headline: Greeks Strike to Protest Latest Austerity Measures
- Manchete: Governo enfrenta segunda greve geral em menos de um mês
Headline: Government faces second general strike in less than a month
Guinea Bissau
Honduras
- Titular: Salud despide a dirigente de enfermeras auxiliares
Headline: Health [Ministry] dismisses leader of auxiliary nurses - Titular: Yanet Almendarez: “se le viene un tsunami a la ministra”
Headline: Yanet Almendarez: a tsunami is coming to the minister
India
- Headline: Post the suspension of Kolkatta doctors over baby deaths, nurses and doctors protect action
- Headline: Kolkata baby deaths: Nurses, doctors protest disciplinary action
Ireland
- Headline: Public meeting to take place in Limerick on A&E cutbacks
- Headline: Talks between nurses and HSE begin at Workplace Relations Commission
- Headline: Nurses and HSE enter talks to avert industrial action over overcrowding
- Headline: Nurses To Come Up With Their Own Solutions To Health Crisis
- Headline: Taoiseach tells Dail Galway A&E is 'not fit for purpose'
- Headline: Patient at Drogheda hospital was charged €75 a night for trolley
- Headline: Hospitals could cope with terror attack, but it won't be pretty – Leo
- Headline: Varadkar’s response to trolley crisis ‘pathetic’, says Sinn Féin
- Headline: UHG nurses to strike this month
Kenya
- Headline: Busia health workers end two-week strike
- Headline: Health workers issue fresh strike notice
- Headline: Private Hospitals Cash in On Health Staff Strike
New Zealand
- Headline: Thonds to march for safer climate
- Headline: Christchurch hospital afternoon staff call for safe car parking
Panama
- Titular: Enfermeras continúan en pie de guerra por ajuste de salario
Headline: Nurses continue on warpath for salary adjustment - Titular: Saldrán a pedir ajuste salarial al MINSA y CSS
Headline: They will demand a salary adjustment of MINSA and CSS - Titular: Enfermeras no descartan paro de labores
Headline: Nurses do not rule out work stoppages
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Portugal
Spain
- Titular: Casi un millar de enfermeros protestan ante el Parlamento por la recuperación de los derechos y salarios, según Satse
Headline: Almost a thond nurses protest before Parliament for the recovery of the rights and wages, according to Satse - Titular: Tres de cada cuatro enfermeras irán a la huelga
Headline: Three out of four nurses will go on strike - Titular: La mayoría de enfermeras españolas se muestran dispuestas para la "huelga competencial"
Headline: The majority of Spanish nurses are ready for the “jurisdictional strike” - Titular: Frente sindical para exigir a Díaz que devuelva derechos a empleados públicos
Headline: Union front to demand that Díaz return rights to public employees
UK
- Headline: Scottish nursing shortage ‘not sustainable’, health union warns
- Headline: Jeremy Hunt defends scrapping of nurse bursaries as 'system is not working'
- Headline: Nurses would not train without bursaries, Unison finds
USA
- Headline: Nurses' Unions Endorse Gavin Newsom for Next California Governor
- Headline: Big Climate Change Rally Today in Los Angeles
- Headline: California Nurses Association Endorses Gavin Newsom’s Bid For Governor
- Headline: Unions press for action on climate change
- Headline: Hospital systems plan merger as nurses labor groups call for AG review
- Headline: Gavin Newsom picks up California nurses endorsement
- Headline: Influential California Nurses Association endorses Democrat Newsom for governor in 2018
- Headline: For people in healthcare, violence is an occupational hazard
- Headline: Southern California hospitals with Catholic roots closer to merging
- Headline: Unions slam state pension board for refusing to divest from fossil fuels
- Headline: Nashoba nurses ratify first union contract
- Headline: Baker proposal would allow addicts to be committed for up 72 hours without court order
- Headline: Minnesota Nurses Association elects new officers
- Headline: Clinton wins union endorsements but still struggles to win over hearts
- Headline: Are Masks a Good Alternative to Flu Shots for Healthcare Workers?
- Headline: Nurses Super PAC Puts Up Iowa Billboards for Sanders
- Headline: Baker proposal would allow addicts to be committed for up 72 hours without court order
- Headline: Bill draws critics, support
- Headline: Despite Sanders' protests, super PAC comes to his aid in Iowa
- Headline: California nurses union endorses Gavin Newsom in governor's race
- Headline: Armed patient took nurse hostage on 8th floor of Denver Veterans Affairs hospital
- Headline: Drugs and health professionals in Worcester: Is this a growing problem?
- Headline: Governor's opioid proposal faces opposition