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International Nurse News Round-Up
Argentina
Australia
- Headline: Bed closures at Royal Adelaide, Queen Elizabeth hospitals to compromise care, nurses warn
- Headline: Baby dies amid concerns over midwife shortages
- Headline: Doctors union lodges official complaint against State Government’s decision to close hospital beds
- Headline: State Government to take nurses union to Industrial Relations Commission
- Headline: Shell-shocked nurses offered redundancies: union
- Headline: SA health minister Jack Snelling tries to stop nurses strike
Canada
- Headline: "Demeaning" health ads cost taxpayers $250,000
- Titre: La FIQ demande le retrait des publicités du MSSS
Headline: The FIQ requests the withdrawal of advertisements from the MSSS
France
- Titre: Tours : des infirmières de Clocheville dans la rue
Headline: Tours: Clocheville nurses in the street - Titre: Crise à l’hôpital : témoignage d’une future infirmière
Headline: Crisis in the hospital: testimony of a future nurse - Titre: Malaise des soignants : les professionnels mobilisés localement
Headline: Malaise of caregivers: professionals mobilized locally
Haiti
Ireland
- Headline: Nurses enter roundtable talks in bid to avert looming one-day stoppages
- Headline: Proposals on way to avert industrial action by nurses
- Headline: Nurses say trolley crisis is not abating
- Headline: Nurses cannot continue working under current stress levels, INMO warns
- Headline: Trolley watch: 509 people waiting for a hospital bed across the country
- Headline: 432 people on trolleys in emergency departments
- Headline: Trolley county falls significantly at Portlaoise hospital
- Headline: Public told to consider going elsewhere due to overcrowding in Portiuncula and Mullingar hospitals
- Headline: Major pressure on hospitals as trolley crisis continues
- Headline: Over 7,000 outpatient cancellations at Letterkenny hospital
- Headline: Nurses issue ultimatum or they go on strike
- Headline: Nurses' group warns health chiefs that they have one week to avoid strike action
- Headline: Talks on nurse staffing crisis adjourned
- Headline: Last bid to defer nurses’ strike
- Headline: 'Sick and tired': Why Ireland's' nurses are leaving in their droves
- Headline: Trolley crisis: 432 on a Friday is a disaster, says INMO
- Headline: Just who is in charge of hospitals in this health crisis?
- Headline: Eight-fold rise in patients on trolleys at Waterford
- Headline: INMO defers decision on industrial action
- Headline: Patient safety at risk as hospitals record sharp rise in trolley figures - INMO
- Headline: Nurses give health chiefs end-of-month deadline to end staff shortages
- Headline: Nurses’ union defers decision on industrial action
- Headline: Nurses give HSE deadline to end staff shortages and avoid strike
- Headline: Nurses' strike averted for now as they pledge more talks
Kenya
- Headline: Nurses in Tharaka-Nithi end strike after receiving salaries
- Headline: Murang’a stops medics’ loans over walkout
- Headline: County Public Service Board to meet, review nurses' CBA
Mexico
- Titular: Tiene Hospital “San Alejandro” déficit de enfermeras y médicos especialistas
Headline: San Alejandro Hospital has deficit of nurses and medical specialists - Titular: Enfermeras esenciales en el sector salud: Astudillo
Headline: Nurses are essential in the health sector: Astudillo - Titular: Denuncian falta de insumos en hospital de Chiapas
Headline: Reports of lack of supplies in Chiapas hospital - Titular: Presionan enfermeras; consiguen pagos
Headline: Nurses protest, and payment follows
Portugal
- Manchete: DGS recebeu 582 queixas de violência contra médicos e enfermeiros
Headline: DGS received 582 complaints of violence against doctors and nurses - Manchete: Enfermeiros contra oferta de 6 euros/hora
Headline: Nurses against offer of 6 euros per hour wages
Spain
- Titular: La plantilla del Álvarez-Buylla pide la vuelta de los despedidos
Headline: The Alvarez-Buylla workers demand the return of dismissed colleagues - Titular: Defensa prescinde de casi 40 profesionales del Gómez Ulla en plena epidemia de gripe
Headline: Defense department dismisses nearly 40 nurses in Gómez Ulla in midst of flu epidemic - Titular: Una veintena de enfermeras del hospital Gómez Ulla, despedidas en pleno colapso de las urgencias por la gripe
Headline: Twenty nurses at the Gómez Ulla hospital dismissed in the midst of flu emergency - Titular: SATSE alerta de falta de "seguridad" en los quirófanos del CHUO
Headline: SATSE warns of a lack of security in the operating rooms of the CHUO - Titular: El Satse denuncia la "alarmante situación" de la UCI por el déficit de enfermeros
Headline: SATSE denounces the alarming situation in the ICU due to lack of nurses - Titular: Satse pide aumento de profesionales para el nuevo centro de la zona Sur
Headline: SATSE demands increase in nursing professionals at the new health center in the South - Titular: Satse Zamora denuncia un déficit de personal de enfermería en el Hospital
Headline: Satse Zamora denounces a nursing staff deficit at the Hospital - Titular: El CODEM limita el voto de la enfermería tras una afiliación masiva de sindicalistas
Headline: CODEM limits the nursing vote after a mass affiliation of union members - Titular: El sindicato de enfermería supera los 3.000 afiliados
Headline: Nursing union exceeds 3,000 members - Titular: La negociación por los dos hospitales llega al "proceso final" sin frenar las protestas
Headline: The negotiation by the two hospitals reaches the “final process” without ending the protests - Titular: Satse denuncia discriminación y plantillas escasas en atención a dependencia
Headline: Satse denounces discrimination and scarce staff in attention to dependency
United Kingdom
- Headline: Pay restraint will cost nurses thousands by 2020, union analysis predicts
- Headline: Staffing challenge for hospital bosses as unions reveal alliance fears
- Headline: Unpublished STPS forecasts thousands fewer NHS nurses
United States
- Headline: ‘Access’ to buying insurance is not health coverage
- Headline: At Democratic Party forum, a call for unity from DNC chairman hopefuls
- Headline: Sanders backers take over California Democratic Party
- Headline: The Precautionary Principle is Paramount
- Headline: Instead of protesting Obamacare repeal, seek what Trump admires
- Headline: Bernie Sanders supporters trying to gain power in state
- Headline: Nurses face more violence from hospital patients
- Headline: Bernie Sanders just showed the country how wrong Tom Price is for HHS
- Headline: Union nurses demonstrate over staffing issues at Tri-City Medical Center
- Headline: Sanders backers look to sway Democratic politics from inside
- Headline: Organizations challenge plans to cut health care for 2.4 million Minnesotans
- Headline: Hundreds Rally at State Capitol to Keep Affordable Care Act
- Headline: OSHA puts out workplace violence rules just before the Trump takeover
- Headline: Ours is a people's history of struggle and resistance
- Headline: Outgoing chief says OSHA will pursue violence standards
- Headline: Workers share workplace violence stories, win commitment for federal OSHA standard
- Headline: How to fight back when an insurer denies your healthcare claim
- Headline: Sanders Backers Look to Sway Democratic Politics From Inside
- Headline: Bernie Sanders Looks to Lead Opposition to Trump, Will Attend the Inauguration
- Headline: Thousands show support for affordable healthcare outside City Hall
- Headline: Nevada County represented at Capitol march on healthcare
- Headline: Outgoing chief says OSHA will pursue violence standard
- Headline: RNs Testify on Violence in the Healthcare Setting
- Headline: Will Trump era make Cory Booker a Democratic star?