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International Nurse News Round-Up
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Argentina
- Titular: Pese a los avances, faltan profesionales de enfermería en el sistema sanitario argentino
Headline: Despite progress, nurse professionals are lacking in the Argentine health system - Titular: Los enfermeros empezaron un paro de tres días
Headline: The nurses began a three-day strike - Titular: Enfermeros paran desde hoy hasta el jueves por falta de convocatoria oficial
Headline: Nurses strike from today until Thursday for lack of official notice
Australia
- Headline: Review into Mount Gambier Hospital announced after concerns raised by unions
- Headline: Royal Hobart Hospital beds crisis hits the emergency department, say staff and unions
- Headline: Staffing levels at the Mount Gambier Hospital under the microscope as doctors say patients at risk due to inadequate resources
- Headline: Nurses rally against Federal Government plan to cut parental leave
- Headline: SA nurses rally over parental leave plan
- Headline: Aged care shame: Elderly left on toilets for hours as nurses reveal lack-of-staff horror stories
- Headline: Gold Coast nurse caught in battle with Blue Care over wage agreements at aged care homes
- Headline: Two more EPAS glitches at QEH, with warnings crashes will cost patient lives
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
- Titre: Cadeaux de Noël du syndicat au Centre intrégré de santé et des services sociaux
Headline: Union Christmas Gifts at the Integrated Center for Health and Social Services - Titre: Sécurité des soins en Montérégie : des syndicats sonnent l'alarme
Headline: Safety of care in Montérégie: unions are sounding the alarm - Titre: Régine Laurent déplore l’incertitude qui mine ses troupes
Headline: Régine Laurent deplores the uncertainty that undermines her troops - Titre: CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale - « Les compressions libérales font mal aux patients et aux professionnelles en soins de la région. » - Régine Laurent
Headline: CIUSSS of the National-Capital - "The Liberal cuts hurt patients and healthcare professionals in the region. "- Régine Laurent - Headline: ONA: ‘Instances Of Violence — Deplorable’
- Titre: Les infirmières du Nouveau-Brunswick dénoncent la violence au travail
Headline: New Brunswick Nurses denounce violence at work - Headline: Manitoba Premier Looking for ‘Pause’ in Public-Sector Pay Increases
- Headline: Arbitrator Makes Further Determinations Regarding Influenza Vaccination Policies In Hospitals
- Headline: B.C. nursing home staff shortage hurts workers and residents, survey finds
Dominican Republic
France
- Titre: Un code de déontologie pour les infirmiers
Headline: A code of ethics for nurses - Titre: Pour l'infirmière, grève totale au collège Norange de St-Nazaire
Headline: For nurses, total strike at the Norange of St-Nazaire College - Titre: Nouvelle grève pour l'infirmière au collège Norange de St-Nazaire
Headline: New strike for nurses at Norange de St-Nazaire College - Titre: Quelques mesures promises au personnel infirmier
Headline: New measures promised to nurses after strike - Titre: La dure lutte des infirmières de l'Ormeau
Headline: The hard struggle of nurses in l'Ormeau - Titre: Les infirmiers anesthésistes en grève pour de meilleurs salaires
Headline: Nurse anesthetists on strike for better wages - Titre: Santé Grève des infirmiers anesthésistes, le bloc opératoire de Chalon au ralenti ce jeudi
Headline: Nurse anesthetists go on strike - Titre: Hôpital de Villeneuve-de-Berg: les syndicats dénoncent la réforme de la direction
Headline: Villeneuve-de-Berg Hospital: unions denounce the reform of management - Titre: Les infirmiers libéraux invités à rejoindre “la journée des soignants” le 24 novembre
Headline: Independent nurses invited to join "the day of the care givers" November 24 - Titre: Clermont-Ferrand : le service psychiatrie du CHU sous tension
Headline: Clermont-Ferrand: psychiatry service at CHU under pressure - Titre: Infirmières, pompiers… un millier dans la rue
Headline: Nurses, firefighters...a thousand in the streets
India
- Headline: Nurses' strike continues for second day
- Headline: After doctors, trade unions extend support to agitating nurses in Patiala
- Headline: Hamidia nurses in Bhopal face hard time in getting salary, cash
Ireland
- Headline: HSE accused of serious dysfunction over trolley crisis
- Headline: Industrial action likely even if Lansdowne Road deal replaced
- Headline: Government delaying start of new public pay talks is 'only exacerbating the problem' - Head of INMO
- Headline: The gathering storm: protests, strikes, talks and choices
- Headline: HSE memo revealed by Kerry staff
- Headline: Eighty-eighth alert from Letterkenny hospital this year
- Headline: Head of nurses union urges public to take action over UHG overcrowding
- Headline: 28 waiting on beds at Letterkenny and Sligo hospitals
- Headline: CUH ‘struggling’ as 54 patients on trolleys
- Headline: Cork University Hospital among worst affected by overcrowding
- Headline: Portacabin plan for Letterkenny University Hospital as crisis continues
- Headline: Two more unions could ballot for strikes if a 'waffling' Government fails to act on talks
- Headline: Garda dispute: INMO boss defends Duffy’s ‘mutiny’ comment
- Headline: We're tired, burnt out and stressed, emergency ward staff tell inspectors
- Headline: Nurses vote to commence industrial action
- Headline: HSE figures show Letterkenny hospital bed and nurse numbers have increased
- Headline: Altnagelvin emergency staff feel ‘burnt out’ – RQIA
- Headline: Where are the jobs for Irish healthcare workers worldwide?
- Headline: Mayo midwives vote for industrial action
- Headline: MUH midwives to protest about ‘severe staff shortage’
Kenya
- Headline: Staff strikes hit hospitals in Embu and Tharaka-Nithi
- Headline: Nurses call of strike to give room for negotiations
- Headline: Kenya: More Than 450 Nurses in Isiolo Go on Strike
- Headline: More than 450 Isiolo health workers issue strike notice
Mexico
- Titular: Médicos y enfermeras comienzan huelga
Headline: Doctors and nurses begin strike - Titular: Reinician paro de labores 500 clínicas y 37 hospitales de Oaxaca
Headline: Resumed work stoppage 500 clinics and 37 hospitals in Oaxaca - Titular: Continúa paro del Sector Salud en Tuxpan
Headline: Strike continues in the Tuxpan Health Sector - Titular: Aumentan las protestas por falta de recursos en Veracruz
Headline: Protests increase over lack of resources in Veracruz
New Zealand
Peru
- Titular: Tarma: pobladores protestan por falta de personal en puesto de salud
Headline: Tarma: residents protest lack of personnel in health post - Titular: Declaran ilegal huelga de trabajadores del sector salud
Headline: strike of health care workers declared illegal
Philippines
Portugal
- Manchete: “Os trabalhadores nunca fazem luta pela luta”, diz Jerónimo junto a manifestantes
Headline: “The workers never make a fight for the fight ", says Jerónimo along with demonstrators - Manchete: Ribeiro da Silva recebe Ordem do Infante D. Henrique
Headline: Ribeiro da Silva receives the Order of Infante D. Henrique - Manchete: Ingleses pagam mais para fixar enfermeiros portugueses
Headline: English pay more to secure Portuguese nurses - Manchete: Médicos, enfermeiros e farmacêuticos entram em inspeções aos lares
Headline: Doctors, nurses and pharmacists enter inspections to homes
Spain
- Titular: Satse pide reconocimiento y el aumento de las plantillas enfermeras
Headline: Satse calls for recognition and increase of staff nurses - Titular: SATSE reclama al Gobierno regional que mantenga la contratación de profesionales en todos los centros sanitarios
Headline: SATSE calls for the regional government to keep hiring professionals in all health centers - Titular: Satse y Junta consideran clave la investigación para el desarrollo de la enfermería
Headline: SATs and Research Board considered key to the development of nursing - Titular: Nueva Ley del Medicamento, solución definitiva a la prescripción enfermera
Headline: New Medicines Act, definitive solution to the nurse prescribing - Titular: Ciudadanos pide cambiar la Ley del Medicamento como solución final a la prescripción enfermera
Headline: Citizens asked to change the Medicines Act as a final solution to the nurse prescribing - Titular: El juez ratifica que las enfermeras solo pueden vacunar con prescripción médica
Headline: The judge confirms that nurses can vaccinate only by prescription - Titular: El PP y los enfermeros retoman las conversaciones sobre la prescripción enfermera
Headline: The PP and nurses resume talks on nurse prescribing - Titular: SATSE Ciudad Real reclama al Sescam que se siga contratando profesionales en los centros
Headline: SATSE Ciudad Real claimed to Sescam to continue hiring professionals in the centers - Titular: La revista 'Enfermería en Desarrollo' premia a la periodista Ana Pastor y a 8 enfermeros por su "destacable labor"
Headline: The journal ‘Nursing in Development' award to the journalist Ana Pastor and 8 nurses for their "remarkable work" - Titular: Los sindicatos denuncian la reducción de 12 contratos de enfermeras
Headline: Unions denounced the reduction of 12 nurses contracts - Titular: Sanidad trasladará a médicos y enfermeras de Babel para abrir el centro de salud de Benalúa
Headline: Health will move doctors and nurses from Babel to open the health center in Benalúa - Titular: Denuncian la reducción de plantilla de Enfermería en la Unidad de Cuidados Especiales del Hospital de Hellín
Headline: Downsizing of Nursing in the Special Care Unit of the Hospital de Hellin denounced - Titular: Salud crea la categoría de Enfermera Especialista
Headline: Health Ministry creates the category of Nurse Specialist - Titular: Sanidad Sindicato Médico, SATSE y SAE denuncian precariedad asistencial en el Área Sanitaria Sur por falta de personal
Headline: Health union Médico, SATSE and SAE denounce precarious care in the South Sanitary Area due to lack of personnel - Titular: Colapso 'histórico' de las Urgencias
Headline: 'Historic' collapse of the ER - Titular: El Congreso Internacional de Enfermería de Barcelona será el más español y el más numeroso
Headline: The International Nursing Congress of Barcelona will be the most Spanish and the largest - Titular: Tribunales.-Una sentencia declara "ilegal" la agrupación de Zonas Básicas de Salud en Distrito Sevilla Aljarafe
Headline: Courts.-A judgment declaring "illegal" the group of health areas in District Aljarafe - Titular: El PSOE se compromete a llevar el debate sobre prescripción a las Cortes
Headline: The PSOE is committed to bringing the debate on prescription to the Courts - Titular: El personal de enfermería de quirófano de Segovia desconvoca la huelga
Headline: The Segovia operating room nurses called off the strike - Titular: Desconvocada la huelga de enfermeros en el Hospital de Segovia
Headline: The strike of nurses in the Hospital of Segovia called off - Titular: Tribunales.-Una sentencia declara "ilegal" la agrupación de Zonas Básicas de Salud en Distrito Sevilla Aljarafe
Headline: Courts: a judgment declaringgroup of health areas in District Aljarafe "illegal" - Titular: El Hospital General aún no ha contratado a 15 enfermeras prometidas en febrero
Headline: The General Hospital has still not hired 15 nurses as promised in February - Titular: El Satse reclama la devolución de una retribución mal cotizada
Headline: The Satse demands the payment of delayed compensation for nurses - Titular: La oferta de empleo de Sanidad incluye 176 plazas de médicos especialistas
Headline: The job of Health includes 176 positions of medical specialists - Titular: El juez suspende cautelarmente la instrucción que obligaba a los enfermeros vascos a vacunar sin prescripción previa
Headline: The judge provisionally suspended the investigation that forced the Basque nurses to vaccinate without prescription
United Kingdom
- Headline: Nurses at hospital burnt out due to staff shortages, says inspection report
- Headline: NHS draws up plans to swap high grade nurses with less qualified staff
- Headline: Higher staffing proportion of professional nurses linked to better quality
- Headline: NHS CRISIS as nurses seek to leave country after racist abuse hits staff
- Headline: Exclusive: CNO pledges to intervene in skill mix disputes
- Headline: Beyond Brexit: Hospitals risk losing EU staff lifeline after Brexit warns Royal College of Nursing Scotland and BMA Scotland
- Headline: Thousands of stroke patients’ lives ‘at risk’ because of NHS nurse staffing crisis
- Headline: Patients missing best possible care due to consultant and nurse shortage
- Headline: Stroke patients 'at risk in the NHS': Major studies find staffing levels and use of effective surgery need improvement
- Headline: South coast community trust warned over staffing levels
- Headline: Apprentice nurses could treat hospital patients in bid to tackle shortages
United States
- Headline: Why Violence Against Nurses Has Spiked in the Last Decade
- Headline: East Chicago residents demand City Hall answers
- Headline: White House Fall Reg Agenda
- Headline: Illinois' pipeline construction proceeds with reservations but no rancor