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International Nurse News Round-Up
Global
- Headline: Patient-to-nurse ratio impacts survival of cardiac arrest patients
- Headline: Nurse staffing key higher survival rates of in-hospital cardiac arrest patients
Australia
- Headline: Queensland hospital nurse assaults spark political blame game
- Headline: Alcohol the main problem in hospital staff assaults, Queensland doctors and nurses say
- Headline: Nurses, midwives may walk away from jobs if they lose penalty rates
- Headline: Nurses must have power to discharge patients from hospitals
Brazil
- Manchete: Sem aumento, enfermeiros prometem entrar em greve
Headline: Without increase, nurses promise to go on strike - Manchete: Enfermeiros da rede pública paralisam atividades na sexta-feira e anunciam indicativo de greve
Headline: Nurses of the public system paralyze activities on Friday and announce indication of strike
- Manchete: Enfermeiros param atividades em Cuiabá para pedir plano de carreira
Headline: Nurses stop activities in Cuiabá to ask for career path
Canada
- Headline: Nurse left unconscious, second attacked in beating by St. Joe's West 5th patient
- Headline: Nova Scotia unions rally against Bill 148 at Province House in Halifax
- Headline: Nova Scotians target Bill 148 with protests, presentations
- Headline: Public sector workers in Nova Scotia gather to protest wage-limit bill
Colombia
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Enfermeras del IDSS realizarán paro de 72 horas si no les pagan regalía
Headline: IDSS nurses will hold 72-hour strike if they are not paid bonus - Titular: Médicos y enfermeras del IDSS amenazan con paro por atraso en pago de regalía
Headline: IDSS doctors and nurses threaten strike for late payment of bonuses
Ireland
- Headline: INMO members to vote on new proposals to avert strike action
- Headline: Varadkar has ‘dropped ambition to reduce waiting lists’
- Headline: Emergency department nurses’ strike to go ahead, INMO says
- Headline: NURSES STRIKE CALLED OFF
- Headline: Seventeen admissions cancelled ahead of nurses’ strike at UHG
- Headline: Stroke victim 'spent 34 hours waiting for bed' in Mater Hospital
- Headline: Nurses’ union warns deal will lead to longer waiting lists
Israel
Mexico
- Titular: Se manifiestan enfermeras y empleados del Hospital General de Mazatlán
Headline: Nurses and employees of the General Hospital of Mazatlán demonstrate - Titular: Urge aumento salarial a enfermeras generales de Isssteson
Headline: Urge salary increase for general nurses in Isssteson
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
- Manchete: Centro Hospitalar do Algarve: enfermeiros pedem 35 horas semanais
Headline: Algarve Hospital Center: nurses call for 35 hours a week - Manchete: “Desigualdade”: Enfermeiros reclamam 35 horas para todos no CHA
Headline: “Inequality”: Nurses demand 35 hours for all in CHA
South Africa
Spain
- Titular: Aumenta el paro en enfermería
Headline: Increased unemployment in nursing - Titular: Satse pide medidas concretas para mejorar las condiciones del personal de Enfermería y los 12.300 que están en paro
Headline: Satse asks for concrete measures to improve the conditions of nursing staff and the 12,300 that are unemployed - Titular: SATSE Madrid exige la implantación de las 35 horas en la sanidad madrileña
Headline: Madrid SATSSE demands the implementation of the 35 hours in the Madrid health - Titular: Denuncian «graves problemas» en Navidad para sustituir a enfermeras y médicos
Headline: They denounce “serious problems” at Christmas to replace nurses and doctors - Titular: Más de 200 enfermeras exigen una solución a la OPE de consolidación de personal laboral
Headline: More than 200 nurses demand a solution to the OPE of the workforce consolidation
UK
- Headline: RCN nurses union ballot on industrial action over pay row
- Headline: RCN: Bursary cuts already negatively impacting nurses
- Headline: Health chiefs reject reports of nursing shortages at Vale of Leven Hospital
- Headline: Nurses 'more stressed by being undervalued than by workload'
- Headline: Union hits out over pressure on ‘overworked’ NHS workers
- Headline: Industrial action on horizon as nurses’ union meets health minister over pay
- Headline: Biggest nursing union to ballot on industrial action
USA
- Headline: Accord reached after Sanders sues the DNC over suspended access to critical voter list
- Headline: Sanders regains access to voter files after bitter fight over data breach
- Headline: Bernie Sanders campaign declares war on the DNC
- Headline: Sanders campaign takes DNC to court
- Headline: Bernie Sanders’ union supporter calls for him to consider independent run
- Headline: Report: Behavioral health-related ED visits spike in Metro South
- Headline: Nurses reach tentative agreements at three hospitals, ending long contract disputes
- Headline: Nurses reach deal with Tracy hospital
- Headline: EMMC nurses: management ignoring staffing agreements
- Headline: Bangor nurses say hospital hasn’t solved staffing shortages
- Headline: Massachusetts ER visits for behavioral health up 24 percent; up 60 percent for teens
- Headline: Nurses union says EMMC in Bangor is ignoring staffing, safety issues
- Headline: In switch, U. of C. Medicine to build adult trauma center on Hyde Park campus
- Headline: Cal/OSHA Workplace Violence Public Hearing Set for Thursday
- Headline: These Students Are Leading a Movement for Free College in the United States
- Headline: Pension changes for Baystate staff to take effect next month
- Headline: Massachusetts ER visits for behavioral health up 24 percent; up 60 percent for teens
- Headline: Hitting, biting and death threats: What can be done about workplace violence at D.C. hospitals?