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International Nurse News Round-Up
Argentina
Australia
- Headline: State in crisis on midwife staffing
- Headline: Doctors angered by SA ward closure: AMA
- Headline: Doctors, nurses plan action against State Government’s decision to close beds at Royal Adelaide and Queen Elizabeth hospitals
- Headline: Royal Adelaide Hospital ward S7 permanently closes
- Headline: Doctors, nurses plan action against State Government’s decision to close beds at Royal Adelaide and Queen Elizabeth hospitals
- Headline: SA Health Minister Jack Snelling tries to stop nurses strike
- Headline: 'Shell-shocked' nurses offered redundancies: union
- Headline: State Government to take nurses union to Industrial Relations Commission
- Headline: SA govt seeks to stop nurse action
- Headline: Nurses cancel action over SA bed closures
- Headline: Midwives fear mothers or babies will die as shortages push Gold Coast hospital to breaking point
- Headline: South Australian Government backflips and agrees to reopen beds at the RAH
- Headline: Nurses cancel action over SA bed closures
- Headline: Nurses call off industrial action, SA Government scraps bed closures
- Headline: Sexual crimes in Victorian hospitals double in past year
- Headline: ACT homebirth trial sees first baby delivered in publicly funded program
Canada
- Headline: Unions, employers react to government's wage rollback directive
- Headline: Report calls for new safety measures in N.S. emergency rooms
- Headline: Health-care unions allege unfair bargaining, ask labour board to intervene
- Headline: Nova Scotia’s health care unions file labour board complaint against health authority, IWK
- Headline: NS Health Care Bargaining Council files labour complaint against NSHA, IWK
- Headline: Nova Scotia to beef up safety in 'very stressful' hospital emergency rooms
- Titre: Le chirurgien millionnaire de La Sarre a profité du système, confirme un rapport
Headline: The surgeon millionaire of La Sarre took advantage of the system, confirms a report - Titre: Réduction de personnel dénoncée
Headline: Staff reduction is denounced - Titre: La FIQ dénonce l'abolition de deux postes d'infirmières à l'hôpital des Monts
Headline: The FIQ denounces the abolition of two nursing positions at the Hôpital des Monts - Titre: Régine Laurent en tournée gaspésienne
Headline: Régine Laurent on a gaspésienne tour
Colombia
France
- Titre: Le Syndicat National des Professionnels Infirmiers (SNPI) dénonce l’Ubérisation des soins
Headline: The National Union of Professional Nurses (SNPI) denounces the Uberization of care - Titre: Les infirmiers manifestent à Paris pour leurs conditions de travail
Headline: Nurses in Paris demonstrate for improved working conditions - Titre: Argenteuil : à bout, le personnel soignant se met en grève
Headline: Argenteuil: caregivers go on strike
India
- Headline: GMCH-32 nurses to go on strike today
- Headline: Chandigarh: Nurses on hunger strike, threaten indefinite stir
- Headline: GMCH-32 nursing staff observe hunger strike
Ireland
- Headline: Nursing home location cited as factor in hospital bed retention
- Headline: Limerick emergency department maintains high levels of overcrowding
- Headline: 'Appalling' situation at Portlaoise A&E as trolley pressure continues
- Headline: Letterkenny hospital bed waiting list still high
- Headline: INMO praises new maternity strategy but warns against delays
- Headline: Babies dying over lack of ultrasound scan access, committee told
- Headline: Key posts unfilled by HSE a year on
- Headline: Latest public pay hikes ‘pose a challenge’
- Headline: Strike-ready INMO to mull over HSE offer
- Headline: Limerick councillors in favour of INMO union vote
- Headline: 'If this many people were dying in another way, there’d be war over it'
- Headline: INMO slams ‘irresponsible’ HSE plan
- Headline: Nearly 150 people forced to wait for a bed at Portlaoise hospital this week
- Headline: Ball in HSE's court to avert nurses strike - Liam Doran
- Headline: Nurses seek incentives to avoid strikes
- Headline: Mater Hospital warns of "very high numbers" and wait times in Emergency Department
- Headline: 520 patients on trolleys in hospitals today
- Headline: Nurses’ strike action looks more likely following breakdown of talks
- Headline: Further hospital chaos looms as talks to attract more nurses end in deadlock
- Headline: Threat of nursing strikes grows after talks break up
- Headline: Nurses’ strike looms after crisis talks break down
- Headline: INMO threatens industrial action as Emergency Consultant calls for acute bed strategy
- Headline: Overcrowding in Ballinasloe Hospital worsens today
- Headline: INMO warns industrial action is likely to go ahead
- Headline: INMO warns of strike action as no progress at recruitment talks
- Headline: No agreement in nurse staffing talks
- Headline: Overcrowding levels at University Hospital Limerick return to highest in country
- Headline: Hospitals facing shortage of agency nurses despite spending €80m on them in 2016
Kenya
- Headline: Nurses in Kenya threaten to resume strike, claim government has not implemented agreement
- Headline: End patients’ suffering
Mexico
- Titular: Profesionalizar y modificar tabulador de enfermeras, meta Sindical
Headline: Professionalize and modify positions of nurses, union goal - Titular: Rechaza sindicato los comités de vigilancia
Headline: Union rejects citizen oversight committees - Titular: Trabajadores de la salud intensifican sus protestas en Chiapas
Headline: Health workers intensify protests in Chiapas - Titular: Reconoce Alejandro Murat a enfermeras y señala ajustes en materia de salud
Headline: Alejandro Murat recognizes nurses and announces health adjustments - Titular: Murat festeja a las enfermeras oaxaqueñas; anuncia modificaciones en sector salud
Headline: Murat celebrates the Oaxacan nurses; Announces changes in health sector
New Zealand
Nigeria
- Headline: Nurses, midwives in Cross River on strike over lopsided appointment
- Headline: Lopsided Appointment: Nurses Begin Indefinite Strike In Cross River
Portugal
- Manchete: Autorizações para contratação de enfermeiros no CHA «são uma falácia», acusa sindicato
Headline: Authorizations for contracting nurses at CHA «are a fallacy», accuse union - Manchete: Sindicato considera autorizações para contratar enfermeiros no CHA ‘uma falácia’
Headline: Union considers authorizations to hire nurses at CHA 'a fallacy'
Pakistan
Spain
- Titular: El PP 'enciende' a los enfermeros: "No se han enterado de que no somos ATS"
Headline: The PP 'provokes' the nurses: "They don't understand that we are not ATS" - Titular: Achacan el "colapso" en los hospitales a la "nula previsión del SMS frente a la gripe"
Headline: Satse blames the "collapse" in hospitals to the "absent SMS planning against the flu" - Titular: Los sindicatos del Provincial se oponen a «precarizar» la plantilla
Headline: Provincial unions oppose "precarious" staffing - Titular: Satse lleva a la Fiscalía la falta de personal en el Área Sanitaria Norte
Headline: Satse criticizes the Prosecutor's Office for lack of personnel in the North Hospital Area - Titular: Satse denuncia la proliferación de contratos de días entre los enfermeros
Headline: Satse denounces the proliferation of temporary contracts among nurses - Titular: La enfermería catalana exige a Comín su dimisión
Headline: Catalan nurses demands Comín's resignation - Titular: Satse blames the manager of Reina Sofia for poor attention in oncology
Headline: Satse blames the manager of Reina Sofia for poor attention to oncology - Titular: El SMS implantará en breve la nueva especialidad de enfermería pediátrica
Headline: The SMS will soon implement the new specialty of pediatric nursing - Titular: Satse alerta del "uso ilegítimo" de las listas de eventuales por los sindicatos firmantes del acuerdo de interinación
Headline: Satse warns of the "illegitimate use" of the lists by the signatory unions of the agreement - Titular: El paro bajó en 78.000 personas en 2016 y se crearon 25.900 empleos
Headline: Unemployment fell by 78,000 in 2016 and 25,900 jobs were created - Titular: Satse critica que 5 pacientes críticos ingresen fuera de la UCI
Headline: Satse denounces that 5 critical patients were not admitted to the ICU
United Kingdom
- Headline: Nurse shortages 'putting patients at risk'
- Headline: Revealed: The hospitals with the worst nurse staffing
- Headline: NHS Hospital wards left with 'dangerously low levels of nurses'
- Headline: Shortage of nurses in almost EVERY hospital in Britain: 96% fail to meet their own 'safe staffing' levels on wards
- Headline: Nurse shifts left unfilled at nearly every hospital in England, figures show
- Headline: Nurses reveal strain of working on understaffed wards
- Headline: NHS Tayside spent more than £1,200 on ONE agency nurse
- Headline: Campaign to tackle nursing shortages in Bolton
- Headline: Number of EU nurses coming to UK falls 90 per cent since Brexit vote
United States
- Headline: After the protests, marching toward a real movement
- Headline: Access to Buying Insurance Is Not Health Coverage
- Headline: Nursing union calls for more changes at CHS
- Headline: CHS shareholders seek to limit executive windfalls if company is sold
- Headline: Bernie Sanders Just Showed the Country How Wrong Tom Price Is for HHS
- Headline: Sanders backers take over California Democratic Party
- Headline: Ours is a people's history of struggle and resistance
- Headline: Democrats vie for chance to take on Trump as California governor
- Headline: Nurse protest on After the Bell
- Headline: Trump's Stealth Health Plan Could Be 'Medicare For All'
- Headline: Trump hiring freeze includes the short-staffed VA
- Headline: Trump’s federal hiring freeze may kill hundreds of well-paying jobs for nurses, scientists, and engineers
- Headline: Trump's Hiring Freeze is Already Hurting Veterans
- Headline: Federal hiring freeze will be waived for VA jobs with ‘public safety’ missions, agency says
- Headline: Trump at Odds With His VA Nominee on Hiring Freeze
- Headline: From VA to FBI, federal workers await details of Trump’s hiring freeze
- Headline: Bernie Sanders’ Revealing Exchange With Trump’s Health Care Appointee Tom Price
- Headline: What is the future of health care under President Trump?
- Headline: Calls For Senators Feinstein and Harris to Reject Trump’s Climate Denier Cabinet
- Headline: Young Women Leading the Fight for Social Justice Recognized by Berger-Marks Foundation
- Headline: Fight back when insurer denies your claim
- Headline: Former Huntington Hospital Nurse, Union Organizer Receives Award for Her Activism
- Headline: Union members join in nationwide women’s march