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International Nurse News Round-Up
Global
- Headline: Higher nurse to patient ratio linked to reduced risk of inpatient death
- Headline: Hospital mortality drops with lower patient-to-nurse ratio
Australia
- Headline: Nepean Hospital shooting: Security guard 'struggling to recover', may not return to job
- Headline: Nurses' union raises Wagga Wagga Rural Referral Hospital staffing concerns with health managers
- Headline: Pilliga 'angels' arrested at Santos CSG site
- Headline: Healthcare workers protest Santos CSG project
- Headline: Hospitals talk violence as ice-addict patients lash out
- Headline: Police absent from NSW hospital safety roundtable
- Headline: Deaths feared as violence against hospital staff out of control
Brazil
- Manchete: Enfermeiros em greve fazem protesto em avenida de Palmas
Headline: Nurses on strike protest on Palmas Avenue - Manchete: Enfermeiros e técnicos fazem greve por retroativos e plantões atrasados
Headline: Nurses and technicians strike for retroactives and late shifts - Manchete: Greve dos enfermeiros é declarada ilegal e multa chega a R$ 50 mil ao dia
Headline: Nurses’ strike is declared illegal and fines amount to R$50,000 a day - Manchete: Cirurgias são canceladas em Teresina devido a greve dos enfermeiros
Headline: Surgeries are canceled in Teresina due to nurses’ strike - Manchete: Para Justiça a greve dos enfermeiros é ilegal
Headline: For Justice the nurses’ strike is illegal - Manchete: Desembargador decreta ilegalidade da greve dos enfermeiros
Headline: Judge declares strike by nurses illegal - Manchete: Profissionais de enfermagem fazem protesto em Teresina
Headline: Nursing professionals protest in Teresina - Manchete: Justiça declara ilegalidade na greve dos enfermeiros no PI; Sindicato contesta decisão
Headline: Justice declares illegal the nurses’ strike in PI; Union contests decision - Manchete: Enfermeiros de hospital de Sinop (MT) param novamente para cobrar salário
Headline: Hospital nurses in Sinop (MT) stop again to collect wages
Canada
- Titre: Entente des infirmières: 87 % d'appui et des gains «majeurs»
Headline: Nurses agreement: 87% support and “major” gains - Titre: Le projet de loi sur les sonneurs d'alerte rate la cible, dit la FIQ
Headline: The bill on whistleblowers misses the target, says FIQ - Titre: La FIQ en Abitibi-Témiscamingue vote pour l'entente de principe
Headline: FIQ in Abitibi-Témiscamingue votes for agreement in principle - Titre: La FIQ accepte l'offre de Québec à 87 %
Headline: FIQ accepts Quebec’s offer at 87% - Titre: Les membres de la FIQ votent oui à 95% dans la région
Headline: The members of FIQ vote yes 95% in the region - Headline: Quebec nurses' union FIQ endorses new collective agreement
- Headline: Saskatchewan Union of Nurses says contract talks have stalled
- Headline: Saskatchewan Union of Nurses says negotiations with Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations at impasse
- Headline: Negotiations between Saskatchewan nurses and SAHO reach impasse
- Headline: Nurse managers, supervisors reach tentative deal with province
Colombia
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Paro en hospitales se cumplió; pacientes apoyan y se quejan
Headline: Strike in hospitals was fulfilled; patients support and complain - Titular: Personal de salud respalda paro en centros de la capital
Headline: Health staff supports strike in centers of the capital - Titular: Médicos y enfermeras del Hospital Doctor Jaime Mota siguen en reclamos; exigen el 5%
Headline: Doctors and nurses in Doctor Jaime Mota Hospital puruse claims; demand 5% - Titular: La huelga en hospitales se cumplió; pacientes se quejaron
Headline: Strike at hospitals is completed; patients complain - Titular: Paro se cumple de manera parcial en hospitales del Cibao
Headline: Strike is partially fulfilled in Cibao hospitals
France
Ghana
Greece
- Headline: Molotov & teargas in Athens during big anti-austerity rally as 24h strike paralyses Greece (pcts, videos)
- Headline: Athens hospital chief denies patient died due to lack of ICU beds
India
Ireland
- Headline: Leo Varadkar hopes deal can tackle A&E crisis
- Headline: “Win-win for everyone” – Irish nurses set to take key tasks out of doctors’ hands
- Headline: Increase in hospital waiting lists
- Headline: Quinlivan says UHL overcrowding 'chaos continues'
- Headline: Overcrowding forces 355 people onto hospital trolleys
- Headline: St Raphael's centre closed after damning HIQA report
- Headline: Nurses back plan aimed at easing trolleys crisis as 71pc vote in favour
- Headline: Nurse deal to hit planned surgeries
Kenya
- Headline: Tharaka Nithi nurses strike, cite poor pay
- Headline: Tharaka Nithi patients moved as nurses strike
- Headline: MP Vows to Push for Return of Management of Health Sector to National Government
- Headline: Medicare paralysed as nurses down tools
Peru
- Titular: Enfermeras del Minsa acatarán paro de 24 horas este miércoles
Headline: Minsa nurses abide by 24-hour strike this Wednesday - Titular: Enfermeras en Perú realizan paro de 24h como protesta a reclamos no atendidos
Headline: Nurses in Peru performed 24h strike to protest claims unattended
South Africa
Spain
- Titular: CATALUNYA.-Enfermeras urgen "contenido y fecha" del decreto catalán de prescripción enfermera
Headline: CATALUNYA-Nurses urge “content and timing” of Catalan degree of nursing prescription - Titular: Satse denuncia la pérdida de 265 camas en el hospital en las últimas dos décadas
Headline: Satse denounces the loss of 265 beds in the hospital in the last two decades
UK
- Headline: Doctors and nurses leaders welcome training funds
- Headline: Surge in privatisation threatening free NHS treatment, unions say
- Headline: Devon care visits ‘last just 15 minutes’
USA
- Headline: I'm a woman and I will vote for the best feminist for president: Bernie Sanders
- Headline: Female Sanders backers slam ‘insulting’ Clinton supporters who say they’re betraying their gender
- Headline: Democratic Debate Factcheck
- Headline: Bernie Sanders Has His Own Shadowy Donors -- And They're Nurses
- Headline: Nurses, hospital groups clash on Massachusetts bill to improve response to violence
- Headline: Nevada next stop for Sanders, Clinton
- Headline: Bernie Sanders’s fundraising prowess boosts his post-New Hampshire efforts
- Headline: Bernie Sanders' Grassroots Supporters Do More Than Pay The Bills
- Headline: This Bill Would Force Large Corporations to Pay a Fine if They Don't Pay Workers a Living Wage
- Headline: National labor board sides with fired Huntington Hospital nurses who tried to unionize
- Headline: County, nurses remain far apart in contract talks
- Headline: California Nurses Using Lessons Learned From Ebola Outbreak For Zika Virus
- Headline: Hundreds Urge Planning Commission to Deny Phillips 66's Dangerous Oil Train Proposal
- Headline: Westminster hospital nurses ratify union contract with raises, shift breaks, patient safety training
- Headline: Sanders, Clinton making a stop in Minnesota today
- Headline: Nurses rally as negotiations open with Allina hospitals
- Headline: Westminster hospital nurses ratify union contract with raises, shift breaks, patient safety training
- Headline: Nurses, hospital groups clash on Massachusetts bill to improve response to violence
- Headline: MA Nurses Speak Against Workplace Violence
- Headline: Massachusetts nurses want more workplace protection
- Headline: NNU sees several shared values as reasons to support Sanders
- Headline: NLRB Ruling Says 2 California Nurses Were Illegally Fired During Union Drive