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International Nurse News Round-Up
Argentina
- Titular: Vecinos del sur cortan la Ruta 11 en apoyo a la enfermera de Playa Serena
Headline: Southern neighbors block Route 11 in support of Playa Serena's nurse - Titular: La enfermera que había sido desplazada de Playa Serena seguirá en el centro de salud
Headline: The nurse who had been dismissed from Playa Serena will continue at the health center
Australia
- Headline: Nursing 457s on the decline as health sector chases workforce renewal
- Headline: Watchdog with teeth to name, shame and ban dodgy health providers
- Headline: Delays, blowouts, spin, finger-pointing, legal bouts ... what can we expect when the new $2.3bn RAH finally opens?
- Headline: Qld hospital maternity services boosted
Belgium
- Titre: Verviers: préavis de grève à la clinique Sainte-Elisabeth de Heusy
Headline: Verviers: Strike notice at the St. Elisabeth Clinic in Heusy - Titular: CNS decide paro; la regional espera
Headline: CNS declares strike; the regional waiting - Titular: La Caja Nacional de Salud inicia una huelga indefinida
Headline: The National Health Fund starts an indefinite strike
Brazil
- Manchete: Enfermeiros rejeitam proposta da PMA e entram em greve
Headline: Nurses reject PMA proposal and go on strike - Manchete: Promotoria do Patrimônio cobra concursos na saúde e sistema penitenciário
Headline: Prosecutor's Office receives contests in health and penitentiary system - Manchete: Projeto prevê concessão de aposentadoria especial para enfermeiros
Headline: Project provides for special retirement grant for nurses - Manchete: Enfermeiros poderão ter direito a aposentadoria especial
Headline: Nurses may be entitled to special retirement
Canada
- Titre: Des négociations pour tenter d’éviter une grève d’infirmières dans le Nord de l’Ontario
Headline: Negotiations to Avoid a Nursing Strike in Northern Ontario - Headline: North East CCAC, nurses to hold more talks
- Titre: La FIQ demande des changements pour les infirmières auxiliaires
Headline: FIQ calls for changes for nursing assistants - Titre: Une entente est conclue entre la FIQ et le CISSS de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Headline: An agreement is reached between the FIQ and the Abitibi-Témiscamingue CISSS - Headline: Nursing test could set up Canadian nurses to be lured to U.S.
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Seibanos llaman a paro por dos días
Headline: Seibanos call for two-day strike - Titular: RD necesita 10,000 enfermeras
Headline: Dominican Republic needs 10,000 nurses
France
- Titre: « L’hôpital public de Guéret est au plus mal »
Headline: "The public hospitals of Guéret are the worst" - Titre: Poussée de fièvre au Chiva
Headline: Chiva fever outbreak - Titre: Infirmiers, pharmaciens, dentistes… la colère gronde !
Headline: Nurses, pharmacists, dentists ... anger rumbles!
India
- Headline: Gandhi nurses go on flash strike
- Headline: Gandhi Hospital contract nurses go on strike
- Headline: Nurses at Hyderabad Gandhi Hospital threaten suicide, protest regularizing job
- Headline: Gandhi nurses continue strike on 3rd day
- Headline: Nurses to continue stir till demands are met
Ireland
- Headline: €1m secured for first stage of 96-bed unit at University Hospital Limerick
- Headline: Waiting list for a bed rises again in Letterkenny University Hospital
- Headline: Nursing plan for A&E trolley patients stalls due to lack of funds
- Headline: Progress Made Between Government And INMO
- Headline: 'Progress made' in nursing talks
- Headline: Change to maternity benefit helps migrants working in Ireland
- Headline: Ireland's maternity benefit now helps migrants who want to travel home
- Headline: Cork University Hospital warns of emergency department delays
- Headline: 438 patients on trolleys as 44% wait over 9 hours
- Headline: INMO says 601 patients awaiting hospital admission
- Headline: University Hospital Limerick hit by major overcrowding
- Headline: Jump in number of people waiting for hospital beds today
- Headline: 500 forced to wait at Portlaoise hospital
- Headline: Stark warning over 'needless deaths' in emergency departments
- Headline: 601 people waiting for beds in hospitals today
- Headline: Trolleys reach crisis levels again
Kenya
- Headline: Nurses to resume strike on February 1, says Seth Panyako
- Headline: Nurses in Kenya to resume strike on Wednesday over unpaid allowances
- Headline: Nurses set to strike, again
- Headline: Nurses issue fresh strike notice
- Headline: Munya moves to assure nurses of payment as strike looms
- Headline: Doctors’ day of reckoning comes Friday
- Headline: Feuds among nurses’ union officiaIs threaten CBA talks
Mexico
- Titular: Egresados de Enfermería de la UABJO toman Rectoría y avenida en Oaxaca
Headline: Nursing graduates of the UABJO take Rectoría and Avenue in Oaxaca - Titular: Falla festejo a enfermeras
Headline: Failure to celebrate nurses - Titular: Capacitación continua a enfermeras del Hospital Civil para brindar un mejor servicio
Headline: Continuous training of nurses at the Civil Hospital to provide a better service - Titular: Festeja SNTSA Sección 61 a enfermeros de BCS en su día
Headline: SNTSA Section 61 celebrates BCS nurses - Titular: Encabeza Secretaria de Salud festejo para personal en enfermería en jurisdicción sanitaria “sierra”
Headline: Head Secretary of Health celebrates nursing staff in mountainous territory - Titular: Protestan en hospital
Headline: They protest in hospital
Portugal
South Africa
- Headline: Denosa threatens non-payment of fees if nursing council fails to improve services
- Headline: Poor servicing of nurses at SANC needs urgent attention – DENOSA
- Headline: Denosa to march to nursing council over registration woes
Spain
- Titular: Los enfermeros preparan una primera demostración de fuerza ante Montserrat
Headline: The nurses prepare a first demonstration of strength before Montserrat - Titular: SATSE exige a Sanidad que cumpla los acuerdos con Enfermería “si no quiere movilizaciones”
Headline: SATSE demands Health to comply with Nursing agreements "if you do not want mobilizations" - Titular: La Enfermería mete presión a Sanidad: “Nos movilizaremos si no se cumple lo pactado en 2013”
Headline: Nursing puts pressure on Health: "We will mobilize if you don't comply with the 2013 agreement" - Titular: SATSE define la situación de las enfermeras en el Hospital El Bierzo como “insostenible”
Headline: SATSE defines the situation of nurses at the Hospital El Bierzo as "unsustainable" - Titular: Comín pide disculpas a las enfermeras y aclara que no las responsabiliza de las camillas en los pasillos
Headline: Comín apologizes to the nurses and clarifies that he does not hold them accountable for the stretchers in the corridors - Titular: Denuncian la agresión a una enfermera del Reina Sofía
Headline: Recent attack on a nurse of Reina Sofía is denounced - Titular: Las enfermeras se indignan con la alusión de Comín a los pasillos de urgencias
Headline: Nurses are outraged by Comin's allusion to emergency corridors - Titular: Denuncian falta de material en el Hospital Regional
Headline: SATSE reports lack of material at the Regional Hospital - Titular: Los enfermeros logran que Cifuentes reactive la Carrera Profesional
Headline: Nurses celebrate that Cifuentes reactivate the Professional Career - Titular: Técnicos en Radiología denuncian intrusismo en centros de Castellón
Headline: Technicians in Radiology denounce intrusion in centers of Castellón - Titular: La Junta de Extremadura convoca el examen de Atención Continuada pendiente desde 2011
Headline: The Board of Extremadura convenes the Continued Care examination, pending since 2011 - Titular: Enfermería reclama los traslados pendientes desde el año 2015
Headline: SATSE complains of the pending nurse transfers since 2015 - Titular: SATSE exige a Osakidetza que frene sus intenciones de criminalizar al sindicalismo
Headline: SATSE demands Osakidetza to curb its intentions to criminalize trade unionism - Titular: Satse alerta de "opacidad" en la Agencia Bajo Guadalquivir con la apertura del Hospital de Lebrija
Headline: Satse warning of "opacity" in the Lower Guadalquivir Agency with the opening of the Hospital de Lebrija - Titular: Trabajadores del Sergas reclaman a la Xunta recuperar los salarios "robados" desde 2009 que cifran en el 30%
Headline: Sergas workers demand the Xunta return the "stolen" salaries from 2009, estimated 30% of salaries - Titular: Más de 300 profesionales alertan de la falta de personal sanitario
Headline: More than 300 professionals warn of lack of health workers - Titular: SATSE responsabiliza al SAS del retraso de la Oferta de Empleo Público 2013
Headline: SATSE blames the SAS for the delay of the Public Employment Offer 2013 - Titular: Satse recurrirá las bolsas de trabajo para que la enfermería pueda acceder
Headline: Satse will use the job boards so that the nursing can be accessed - Titular: SATSE denuncia 'descubiertos' por escasez de personal
Headline: SATSE denounces 'overdrafts' due to shortage of staff
United Kingdom
- Headline: Senior nurse pledges to 'step up efforts' to increase staffing
- Headline: Nurses travel hundreds of miles to fill staff shortage
- Headline: Number of nurses on wards too low at New Cross and Cannock Chase hospitals
United States
- Headline: Rep. Kevin McCarthy locks the door on California Medicare activists
- Headline: Trump’s Hiring Freeze Creates Confusion for Veterans Affairs
- Headline: Following settlement, Huntington Hospital nurses in Pasadena can move forward with union vote
- Headline: Former Huntington Hospital Nurse, Union Organizer Receives Award for Her Activism
- Headline: Huntington Hospital Agrees to Second Settlement in Nurses’ Dispute, Paves Way for Rerun Election
- Headline: Young women leading the fight for social justice recognized
- Headline: Nation’s Largest Nurses’ Union Endorses NJ’s Wisniewski
- Headline: Pro-Bernie Sanders group backs Wisniewski for N.J. governor
- Headline: Trump Picks Anti-Choice Federal Judge For Supreme Court
- Headline: From Resisting Trump To What?
- Headline: Possible repeal of Obamacare arouses local concern
- Headline: Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital Nurses Respond to MemorialCare Layoffs
- Headline: Pilot Paramedic Program in San Diego Reducing 911 Calls From Heavy Users
Venezuela
- Titular: Enfermeros marcharán a Caracas el 7F para exigir mejoras laborales
Headline: Nurses march to Caracas to demand better working conditions on Feb. 7 - Titular: Centros de salud carabobeños reportan un déficit de 70% en insumos
Headline: Carabobean health centers report a 70% deficit in supplies - Titular: En defensa de Venezuela marcharán trabajadores de la salud y del movimiento estudiantil
Headline: In defense of Venezuela, health workers and the student movement will march