News
International Nurse News Round-Up
Australia
- Calls for increased security funding at Hunter hospitals
- Hospital medics demand urgent action to halt violence - saying ‘Band-Aid’ solutions aren’t working
- Queensland Nurses Union unsure whether new beds and staff at Logan Hospital is enough
- Patient allegedly threatens staff with a swag of weapons
- Nurses ‘stand to lose $359m a year collectively if penalty rates cut’
- Tweed nurses call for better security to combat wave of hospital violence
- Gold Coast University Hospital death sparks patient fears
- Headline: Queensland Nurses Union unsure whether new beds and staff at Logan Hospital is enough
Brazil
- Manchete: Enfermeiros do estado deflagram greve por tempo indeterminado
Headline: State nurses trigger indefinite strike - Manchete: Enfermeiros da rede estadual de saúde mantém decisão e iniciam greve amanhã
Headline: State health network nurses keep decision and start strike tomorrow - Manchete: Enfermeiros encerram greve e retomam trabalho em cidade de MT
Headline: Nurses close strike and resume work in city of MT - Manchete: Enfermeiros entram em greve por tempo indeterminado em Palmas
Nurses enter strike indefinitely in Palmas
Canada
- St. Joe's cutting 136 jobs, up to 40 from layoffs
- St. Joe’s budget cuts
- ONA Protests Funding Freeze, Layoffs
- Attack changed nurse's life
- ONA expects 28 nurses to be affected at Northumberland Hills Hospital
- Long-term care results in ‘Broken Homes’
- Titre: Les cours prénataux écopent de l'austérité
Prenatal classes pay the price of austerity - Titre: La pénurie de main-d’œuvre persiste chez les infirmières
Headline: Labor shortage persists among nurses
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Paro de médicos y enfermeras se cumple en la región Este
Headline: Strike by doctors and nurses was engaged in the eastern region - Titular: Enfermeras de la Maternidad de Boca Chica paralizan labores
Headline: Maternity nurses of Boca Chica paralyze work - Titular: Se cumple en algunos hospitales del DN y Santo Domingo el paro de labores
Headline: Labor strike is fulfilled in some hospitals in DN and Santo Domingo - Titular: Se cumple paro en hospitales de la región Este del país
Strike in hospitals in the Eastern region of the country is fulfilled - Titular: Empleados del sector salud paralizan hospitales del Gran Santo Domingo
Headline: Health sector employees paralyze hospitals of Greater Santo Domingo - Titular: Gremios paralizarán mañana hospitales del este
Headline: Unions paralyze eastern hospitals this morning
France
- Titre: A Cannes, les infirmières font bloc. la grève est suspendue!
Headline: In Cannes, the nurses unite the strike is suspended! - Titre: Les infirmiers anesthésistes sont en colère
Headline: The nurses anesthetists are angry
Greece
- Farmers vowed to step up protests, nurses took to the streets and sailors prepared to strike
- Resentment simmers as Greece launches debate on pension reforms
Guatemala
Ireland
- Cork University Hospital cancels ops again due to overcrowding
- MORE PEOPLE ON TROLLEYS AT REGION'S MAIN HOSPITAL THAN ANY OTHER HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY
- 'Unprecedented' numbers arriving at emergency departments, nurses confirm
- Over 1,000 sign petition to fully restore hospital
- INMO says hospital emergency departments have been under "unprecedented pressure"
- 517 on trolleys in A&Es or wards
- Nursing vacancies double in three months at Dublin's Beaumont
- ED trolleys reach new high at St Vincent’s Hospital
- Hospitals forced to cancel routine operations due to big rise in A&E visits
- Almost 400 people on hospital trolleys around the country
- New talks aim to defuse union row over A&E proposals
- More than 450 patients on trolleys around the country yesterday
- New nursing plan for wards based on sickness rather than size or cost
- Chaos at UHW
- 400 PEOPLE ON TROLLEYS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Kenya
- Court orders nurses to reconcile with county government
- Reprieve for patients as nurses suspend planned strike
- Kakamega gets order to stop medics’ strike
- Kakamega nurses vow to go on strike over poor working conditions
Mexico
- Titular: Enfermeras del Hospital Regional se manifiestan por retraso en pagos
Regional Hospital nurses demonstrate for late payments - Titular: Protestan enfermeras del HAEV para exigir el pago de su quincena
Headline: HAEV nurses protest to demand pay of its half
Philippines
Portugal
- Manchete: Greve deixa hospitais em serviços mínimos
Strike leaves hospitals with minimal services - Manchete: Enfermeiros em greve pela reposição das 35 horas de trabalho
Headline: Nurses on strike for replacement of 35 hours of work - Manchete: Greve dos enfermeiros com adesão de 77% no turno da noite - Sindicato
Headline: Strike by nurses with 77% membership on the night shift--Union - Manchete: Sindicato. Greve de enfermeiros e auxiliares dificulta serviços no Hospital São José
Headline: Union. Strike by nurses and auxiliaries hampers services at Hospital São José
South Africa
Spain
- Titular: Satse denuncia que una paciente con respirador es ingresada en planta por falta de camas en la UCI
Headline: Satse denounces that a patient with a respirator is admitted on the ground for lack of ICU beds - Titular: Satse plantea protestas sociales ante la disminución de competencias
Headline: Satse raises social protests against declining skills - Titular: El Sindicato de Enfermería asumirá los gastos judiciales de los profesionales que incumplan el Real Decreto
Headline: The nursing union will bear the legal costs of professionals that breach the Royal Decree
UK
- More nurses bill moves a step closer
- Number of mental health nurses falls 10%
- Kirsty Williams’ More Nurses Bill passes penultimate Assembly stage
- New ‘associate nurse’ role won’t solve nursing shortages, Unison warns
- US healthcare giant makes fortune from NHS but pays hardly a penny in tax
USA
- A SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH SYSTEM IS LOOKING BETTER ALL THE TIME
- With Healthcare, We’re Patients, Not Consumers
- Bernie Sanders And The Fight For Barack Obama’s Good, Bad, Ugly Progressive Legacy
- New MNA president sees nurses as change agents
- VCMC nurses say wages, turnover compromises care
- UC Office of the President fields questions on contentious retirement benefit plan
- NLRB rules in favor of nurses fired by Huntington Hospital
- National Labor Board sides with fired Huntington Hospital nurses who tried to unionize
- Lois Capps: Phillips 66’s rail spur project poses too big a risk for SLO County
- Jean Ross of National Nurses United Hits Home Run for Bernie Sanders At ‘Climate Emergency Caucus’
- Nurses seek protection from workplace violence
- Nurses push for anti-violence legislation
- Taunton state hospital nurse testifies as nurses seek protection from workplace violence
- Bernie Sanders’s campaign brings in jaw-dropping $20 million in January
- This Bill Would Force Large Corporations To Pay a Fine if They Don’t Pay Workers a Living Wage
- Nurses Boosting Bernie In Caucus For Real Change On Healthcare
- Clinton Can't Count on Union Backing in Iowa, Despite Endorsements
- OSHA gives Brigham & Women's list to improve safety-
- Sanders rallies for final time in Iowa
- Sanders, Surging, Returns To Stump In Iowa
- Inside the Pro-Sanders Groups Taking on Clinton’s Powerhouse Allies
- Jean Ross of National Nurses United hits home run for Bernie Sanders at climate emergency caucus
- Marin General nurses plan candlelight vigil
- Health care ideas still divide Democrats
- Union event to support Bernie Sanders scheduled for Saturday
- Nashoba Valley Medical Center cuts staff, union protests: 6 things to know
- Petitioners demand nursing staff be retained at Nashoba Valley Medical
- Who Benefits and Who Loses in this Catholic California Hospital Merger? Nurses Make Their Case
- Nurses stand united behind Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders