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International Nurse News Round-Up
Argentina
Australia
- Headline: Residents oppose privatisation at Politics in the Pub
- Headline: Community opposition to privatising Maitland hospital grows
- Headline: Nurses union highlights health concerns as it joins anti-pokies offensive
- Headline: SA nurses support voluntary euthanasia law
- Titular: “Solo una enfermera”, emocionante carta de una enfermera tras sentirse menospreciada
Headline: "Only a nurse," moving letter from a nurse after feeling slighted - Headline: Canberra Liberals pledge to roll back pay parking
Brazil
Canada
- Headline: Ontario Nursing Association and Elgin St. Thomas Public Health seek common ground in negotiations
- Titre: Six minutes pour nourrir des patients au Centre d'hébergement Denis-Benjamin-Viger
Headline: Six minutes to feed patients at the Denis-Benjamin-Viger nursing home - Titre: L’opposition dénonce les conditions de vie dans un CHSLD
Headline: The opposition denounces the living conditions in the nursing home - Titre: Estrie : des employés du système public se disent « surchargés »
Headline: Estrie: the public system employees say they are “overloaded” - Titre: Une pétition de plus de 9000 noms déposée à l’Assemblée nationale
Headline: A petition of over 9,000 names submitted to the National Assembly - Headline: Nova Scotia Nurses Union angry after gun incident not reported to them
- Headline: Nurses Union calls on government to take the threat of violence in the workplace more seriously
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
France
- Titre: 8 novembre : vaste mouvement infirmier annoncé
Headline: November 8: nurses movement announced - Titre: Mobilisation de la filière infirmière le 8 novembre : 16 organisations ont appelé à la grève
Headline: Nurses to mobilize on October 18: 16 organizations join the strike - Titre: Vaccination anti-grippe par les pharmaciens : infirmières et médecins toujours hostiles
Headline: Flu vaccination by pharmacists: doctors and nurses hostile
Ghana
India
- Headline: RIMS Nurses to go on 'cease-work' strike from October 18
- Headline: Nurses threaten ceasework at RIMS
- Headline: Nursing staff strike taking its toll on medical services at Rajindra hospital
- Headline: Nurses angry at not getting a salary for six months off work by staff, patients who harass
- Headline: Ambedkar strike by nurses in the hospital
- Headline: Nurses strike and demonstrate outside hospital
- Headline: Increased work load, performance: Ambedkar hospital nurses issue strike warning
Ireland
- Headline: Equivalent of two planes full of people die every year due to crowding at Irish hospitals, group claims
- Headline: Claims That 350 People Dying Each Year As Direct Result Of Overcrowding
- Headline: Minister Harris says new Limerick A&E is 'absolute priority'
- Headline: University Hospital Limerick requires 100 more acute beds
- Headline: 1,000 new nursing jobs 'won't solve ward staff crisis'
- Headline: Thousands of nurses and midwives to get pay rise as increments restored
- Headline: Thousands of Irish nurses set for pay increase
- Headline: Good news for nurses: Thousands of Irish nurses to receive pay rise
- Headline: Salary boost for nurses who graduated in recent years
- Headline: Pay increase of up to €1,500 for nursing graduates
- Headline: Nurses to have pay increment restored
- Headline: Recently graduated nurses to receive €1,000 pay boost
- Headline: Govt restores incremental credit meaning at least €1k pay rise for thousands of nurses
- Headline: Irish hospitals continue to suffer overcrowding, University Hospital Limerick rated most congested
- Headline: Report reveals hospitals have more than 300 people waiting for bed
- Headline: There are almost 400 people waiting for a hospital bed
- Headline: Figures show nearly 450 people waiting for hospital beds
- Headline: Concern over health budget
- Headline: "In Ireland, you're like a zombie by the end of the week": Irish nurse on why she's working in Australia
- Headline: Nurses seek prison terms for attackers
Kenya
- Headline: Health Ministry calls for sober debate on trade unions
- Headline: Address public health woes
- Headline: Health crisis in Busia as nurses’ strike enters day two
- Headline: Nurses in Tharaka-Nithi issue strike notice over unpaid salaries
- Headline: 90 names struck off payroll, protest Tharaka Nithi nurses
- Headline: Seven-day Busia nurses strike called off
- Headline: Back to work, we are taking roll call, Busia Health chief officer warns striking nurses
- Headline: MTRH nurses go on strike as notice lapses with no accord
- Headline: KUDHEIHA urges KNH nurses to call off strike slated for Wednesday
- Headline: 300 Tharaka-Nithi ghost workers removed from payroll
- Headline: Kenya: Striking Meru Health Workers Dismiss Sacking As Mere Threat
Mexico
- Titular: Médicos y enfermeras de Oaxaca radicalizan protesta
Headline: Doctors and nurses from Oaxaca radicalize protest - Titular: Trabajadores de Salud bloquean vialidades de Oaxaca
Headline: Health workers block roads in Oaxaca - Titular: Médicos bloquean accesos a Oaxaca
Headline: Doctors block access to Oaxaca - Titular: Continúa el paro en los Servicios de Salud de Oaxaca
Headline: Continued unemployment in Oaxaca Health Services - Titular: Deficiencias en el sector Salud
Headline: Deficiencies in the health sector - Titular: Culpan a recortes y al dólar por carencias
Headline: They blame the budget cuts and the dollar for shortages - Titular: Amagan doctores y enfermeras de Oaxaca con tomar carreteras
Headline: Amagan doctors and nurses from Oaxaca to take to the streets - Titular: Inconformes trabajadores de Hospital ISSSTE; hablan de grupo de mafiosos
Headline: Discontented workers from ISSSTE Hospital speak of corruption in hospital administration - Titular: El IMSS prohíbe a enfermeras salir solas en zonas de riesgo
Headline: The IMSS prohibits nurses to leave alone in risky areas
Peru
Portugal
- Headline: Portuguese nurses strike over pay, working hours
- Manchete: Enfermeiros prosseguem greve esta sexta-feira
Headline: Nurses continue strike Friday - Manchete: Enfermeiros cumprem segundo dia de greve
Headline: Nurses continue second day of strike - Manchete: Adesão à greve dos enfermeiros entre os 72% e os 75% nos hospitais do SNS
Headline: Adherence to the strike by nurses between 72% and 75% in SNS hospitals - Manchete: Adesão à greve dos enfermeiros no turno da noite foi de 81%
Headline: Adherence to the strike of the nurses on the night shift was 81% - Manchete: Enfermeiros em greve até esta sexta
Headline: Nurses strike until this Friday - Manchete: 39.513 enfermeiros a trabalhar no SNS. É “o maior número de que há registo”
Headline: 39,513 nurses working in the SNS. It is "the most on record" - Manchete: Greve dos enfermeiros condiciona hospitais
Headline: Nurses' strike affects hospitals - Manchete: Greve dos enfermeiros no hospital S. João no Porto teve adesão de 80%
Headline: Nurses' strike at hospital in Port St. John had adherence of 80% - Manchete: Greve dos Enfermeiros com grande expressão no Distrito
Headline: Nurses' strike with great expression in the District
South Africa
Spain
- Titular: Satse denuncia problemas en la concesión de permisos a enfermeras embarazadas
Headline: Satse denounces the workplace treatment of pregnant nurses - Titular: Satse denuncia trabas a enfermeras y fisioterapeutas embarazadas en la Comunitat
Headline: Satse denounces inadequate treatment of pregnant nurses and physiotherapists - Titular: La Comunidad Valenciana dificulta la concesión de bajas a enfermeras y fisioterapeutas embarazadas
Headline: Valenciana fails to meet the needs of pregnant nurses, says Satse - Titular: Ocho comunidades ponen problemas a las enfermeras y fisioterapeutas para coger la baja por embarazo
Headline: Eight communities pose problems for nurses to carry out low-risk pregnancies - Titular: Las oposiciones de enfermería de Castilla y León ya tienen fecha
Headline: Date set for review of fixed positions of nurses in Castilla and León - Titular: Satse asegura que hospital Virgen del Rocío cierra camas por falta enfermeras
Headline: Satse says Virgen del Rocío hospital beds closed for lack nurses - Titular: Satse alerta de que el "bloqueo" a la contratación de enfermería "obliga a cerrar camas" en el Virgen del Rocío
Headline: Satse warns that the "blockade" against hiring nurses "requires the closure of beds" in the Virgen del Rocío - Titular: Enfermería quiere por escrito el permiso para vacunar
Headline: Nurses want the authorization to vaccinate - Titular: Se reabre la guerra entre médicos y enfermeros a punto de comenzar la campaña de la gripe
Headline: A war between doctors and nurses reopens about starting the flu campaign - Titular: Normalidad en la atención pese a la 'prescripción enfermera'
Headline: Normality in care despite the 'nurse prescribing' - Titular: Satse alerta a la enfermería ante el inicio de la campaña de la gripe en Extremadura
Headline: Satse issues warning to nurses before the start of the flu campaign in Extremadura - Titular: Denuncian la falta de personal tras la ampliación de Urgencias del Hospital Joan XXIII de Tarragona
Headline: They denounce the lack of staff after enlargement of Emergency Hospital of Joan XXIII of Tarragona - Titular: Critican la lista de espera en cataratas
Headline: They criticize the waiting list on cataracts - Titular: Satse denuncia que unas 3.000 personas esperan una consulta de cataratas en el Reina Sofía
Headline: Satse claims that about 3,000 people wait for a cataract consultation in the Reina Sofia - Titular: Las cinco reclamaciones de los manifestantes contra la fusión hospitalaria
Headline: The five complaints of the protesters against hospital merger
United Kingdom
United States
- Headline: Without Prop. 61, our patients will continue to suffer
- Headline: Nurses win violence prevention standard
- Headline: Nurses celebrate approval of California’s new nation-leading regulations to Prevent Workplace Violence in Healthcare Settings
- Headline: Nurses may get 16 percent raise at one East Bay hospital​
- Headline: California’s RN Wages Now Highest In The Nation, Federal Data Show
- Headline: Sanders champions Colorado single payer effort as model for nation
- Headline: Union workers protest 175 layoffs at UC Irvine
- Headline: Striking Allina nurses approve contract offer
- Headline: Nursing group says Allina hospitals among most expensive in the state
- Headline: Minnesota nurses approve contract with Allina, strike to end
- Headline: Nurses vote to approve Allina contract, end strike
- Headline: Nurses vote to approve new contract, end strike
- Headline: Minnesota nurses' strike to end after new contract ratified
- Headline: Allina nurses vote to end strike after months of negotiations and 6 weeks off the job
- Headline: Strike is over, nurses say
- Headline: After weeks on strike, Allina nurses approve new contract
- Headline: Allina nurses stop their strike after accepting contract
- Headline: Minnesota nurses approve new contract with Allina Health
- Headline: Tensions felt as nurses are back at Twin Cities Allina hospitals
- Headline: Strike over, nurses back at Twin Cities Allina hospitals
- Headline: More than 50 nurses allege labor violations at Twin Cities Hospital
- Headline: Potential changes to health care for students at DC schools draw concern, confusion
- Headline: Bernie Sanders urges supporters to ‘stand up to’ Big Pharma at Prop 61 rally
- Headline: California Wants the Same Drug Discount That Veterans Get
- Headline: Neoliberalism’s deadly experiment
- Headline: Nurses say Jane Kim for state Senate to heal Califonria