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International Nurse News Round-Up
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Australia
- Headline: Hospital workers 'treated like punching bags' - one attacked every hour in Victoria
- Headline: Emergency workers unite to keep Shellharbour Hospital public
- Headline: Nurses union: Keep Maitland Hospital public
- Headline: Barwon Health cost cutting fuels fears of elective surgery waiting list blowout
- Headline: Health unions planning rally at Shellharbour Hospital
Brazil
Canada
- Headline: CAMH Workers Holding Info Picket Wednesday Re: Violence Against Staff
- Headline: Alberta faces 'hard limits' on spending, Notley warns nurses union
- Headline: Never mind the evidence! An expert unpacks Alberta's unending experiment in health care staffing
- Titre: Les infirmières du N.-B. veulent plus de protection face à la violence
Headline: Nurses want more workplace violence protection - Headline: Nurses want province to clearly define violence as workplace hazard
- Headline: Legislation needed to prevent workplace violence: NB Nurses Union
- Headline: Nurses Call For Staffing Review
Dominican Republic
- Titular: CMD declara Cabral y Báez en estado de emergencia
Headline: CMD declares Cabral y Báez in state of emergency - Titular: Brote de tuberculosis afecta pacientes del Cabral y Báez. Enfermeras harían caminata
Headline: TB outbreak affects patients of Cabral y Báez. Nurses could walk
Ghana
- Headline: We run the mental home with our savings - Psychiatric nurses tell gov't
- Headline: Nurses, midwives to strike on November 14
- Headline: Nurses strike over 'dangerous working environment'
- Headline: Nurses threaten national strike
- Headline: Psychiatric nurses declare indefinite strike
- Headline: Accra Psychiatric nurses on strike
- Headline: Nana Akomea: Mahama out of touch with realities facing Ghanaians
- Headline: Registered nurses and midwives threaten strike
- Headline: Psychiatric Nurses Begins Indefinite Strike Today
- Headline: Mahama Vows to Resolve Psychiatric Hospital Standoff
- Headline: I’ll Solve Psychiatric Hosp. Issues - Prez Mahama
- Headline: Accra Psychiatric Hospital To Discharge Patients
- Headline: Accra Psychiatric Hospital won't shut down - Mahama
- Headline: I am unaware of Accra Psychiatric Hospital strike – Mahama
- Titre: Ghana : grève des infirmières psychiatriques
Headline: Ghana: psychiatric nurses on strike
India
- Headline: Public health services in Ggn affected after paramedical staff go on strike
- Headline: Nurses to take 'radical action' over staff crisis
- Headline: Irish hospitals have more than 450 patients waiting for beds today
- Headline: Two elderly patients spend two days on Tallaght Hospital trolleys
- Headline: This is how many people are waiting for a bed in hospitals across the country
- Headline: Here is the number of people waiting for hospital beds in Ireland today
- Headline: New Mullingar Hospital ED To Open After Staffing Concerns Addressed
- Headline: 9 patients on trolleys in Sligo Hospital
- Headline: Waterford hospital to close ten beds over nurse shortage
- Headline: Winter of discontent: How the unions and Government are playing a high-stakes game
- Headline: Garda strike inevitable unless progress made by Wednesday
- Headline: Number waiting for hospital beds rising towards 400
- Headline: Consultant supports prison sentences for those who assault hospital staff
- Headline: Government offer to Garda may motivate other union requests
Kenya
- Headline: Harmonise our pay or we will call a nationwide strike, says nurses’ union
- Headline: Nurses want Health PS to resign over Sh5b scam
- Headline: I will not resign, Health minister Mailu says
- Headline: Pressure mounts on Muraguri to quit as EACC storms ministry
- Headline: Ruto vows action but faults critics relying on an interim audit
- Headline: Nurses union asks Health ministry bosses to resign over Sh5bn theft
Mexico
- Titular: Médicos y enfermeras apoyan a los jefes en denuncias del HGT
Headline: Doctors and nurses support the managers in complaints of HGT - Titular: Golpean a enfermera para robarla dentro del HC de San Cristóbal
Headline: Nurse is attacked during robbery at the Hospital Center in San Cristóbal
Nigeria
- Headline: LAUTECH teaching hospital nurses protest
- Headline: Nigeria: Oyo Teaching Hospital Nurses Strike Over Unpaid Salaries
- Headline: Nigeria: Oyo Nurses Accuse Hospital Management of Embezzlement
- Headline: Strike: Ogun mums lament lack of access to immunisation
Peru
Spain
- Titular: El sindicato de enfermería alerta de sobrecarga en el hospital Nai
Headline: The nursing union warnss of overload in the hospital Nai - Titular: La consulta de enfermería oncológica del Materno, también cerrada por falta de personal
Headline: Consultation of Maternal oncology nursing, also closed for lack of staff - Titular: Las enfermeras reclaman a Rajoy un ministro de Sanidad que no sea “más de lo mismo”
Headline: The nurses claim that Rajoy a minister of Health "more of the same" - Titular: Sindicato de Enfermería: “Nos enfrentaremos a Rajoy si no se recuperan los derechos perdidos”
Headline: Union of Nursing: "We will face Rajoy if our lost rights are not recovered" - Titular: El Sindicato de Enfermería advierte a Rajoy que no haga "promesas huecas"
Headline: The Union of Nursing warns Rajoy not to make "hollow promises" - Titular: Satse pide a la junta que invierta en los hospitales los 12 millones que ha dejado de gastar en el blanca paloma
Headline: Satse requests from the board that they invest in the hospitals the 12 million that it stopped spending on the ‘white dove’ - Titular: Nuevas movilizaciones en la sanidad por falta de personal
Headline: New demonstrations in healthcare due to lack of staff - Titular: Los enfermeros de Castilla-La Mancha advierten del «colapso» de los centros por los recortes de personal
Headline: Nurses of Castilla-La Mancha warn of the "collapse" of the centers by staff cuts - Titular: Empleados públicos rechazan la baja de enfermeras
Headline: Public employees denounce the downward of nurses - Titular: La doble cara de las urgencias
Headline: The double face of emergencies - Titular: Los sindicatos piden a la nueva ministra de Sanidad "diálogo" para acabar con la temporalidad en el sector
Headline: Trade unions call on the new Health Ministry “dialogue” to end precarious work arrangements - Titular: Los sindicatos llaman a la sociedada que se movilice por la sanidad
Headline: Unions call for society to be mobilized for health - Titular: Jeringuillas peligrosas
Headline: Dangerous syringes
United Kingdom
- Headline: Hospital staffing must be priority – Ogmore AM
- Headline: Nursing associates will administer controlled medicines, documents show
- Headline: UNISON launches mobile app to allow nurses to raise concerns
- Headline: Concerned nurses can blow the whistle by app
- Headline: Musgrave Park Hospital elderly ward to close as nurses 'redeployed to ease staff shortage'
United States
- Headline: California’s Prop. 61 Offers Opportunity to Take on Big Pharma
- Headline: Attacking the Medics of Standing Rock Violates Basic Laws of Humanity
- Headline: Nurses Condemn Attacks on Water Protectors Opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline Project
- Headline: This ballot measure keeps bringing Bernie Sanders back to California
- Headline: Clinton campaign planned to vilify nurses backing Sanders
- Headline: Sanders supporters plan to hold Clinton accountable if she's elected
- Headline: Desert Regional dangerously understaffed, nurses say
- Headline: Report shows increase in cases of sexually transmitted diseases in California
- Headline: D.C. Parents Wary Over Plans to Reduce School Nursing Hours
- Headline: Unions still disagree on Dakota Access pipeline
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