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International Nurse News Round-Up
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Australia
- Headline: New Health Minister keen to consult on Shellharbour Hospital future
- Headline: Senior maternity nurses stood down over allegations of bullying at Cairns hospital
- Headline: Nurses to perform some SA colonoscopies
- Headline: Byron Central Hospital understaffed: nurses
- Headline: SA to get nursing research centre
- Headline: Abuse of doctors, nurses as record high in SA hospitals, prompting new campaign
- Headline: Aged care wages: tackling pay in ‘the forgotten industry’
- Headline: Violence in Adelaide hospitals targeted in social media campaign
Canada
- Headline: Ontario Nurses' Association wants more funding for long-term care facilities
- Headline: More proof our health care system is broken: Opinion
- Titre: Une commission Charbonneau de la santé devient possible, si le projet de loi 130 est adopté, selon la FIQ
Headline: A Charbonneau Health Commission becomes possible, if Bill 130 is passed, according to the FIQ - Titre: Plaidoyer pour une clinique de proximité à Montréal-Nord
Headline: Advocacy for a community clinic in Montréal-Nord - Titre: Les raisons derrière la rupture de service d'anesthésiologie à l'hôpital des Monts
Headline: The reasons behind the breakdown of anesthesiology service at the Hôpital des Monts - Titre: Inquiétudes pour les droits des patients
Headline: Concerns about patients' rights - Titre: Débordements des lits au CHSLD d'East Angus
Headline: Bed overflows at the East Angus CHSLD
Cape Verde
- Manchete: Enfermeiros do Centro de Diálise do Hospital Agostinho Neto ameaçam entrar em greve
Headline: Nurses at the Dialysis Center of Agostinho Neto Hospital threaten to strike - Manchete: Sindicato dos enfermeiros agenda greve no serviço de hemodiálise do Hospital Agostinho Neto
Headline: Nurses' union organizes a strike at the dialysis center of Agostinho Neto Hospital - Manchete: Enfermeiros/HAN: CCSL pede ponderação à administração hospitalar
Headline: Nurses / HAN: CCSL asks for the hospital administration's consideration
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Gremios de enfermería se revelan y anuncian paralizaciones
Headline: Nursing unions are unveiled and announce strikes - Titular: Enfermeras advierten volverían protestas
Headline: Nurses warn they may return to protests - Titular: 5 demandas que presionan al Gobierno
Headline: 5 demands that pressured the government
France
- Titre: Suicide d'un infirmier à l'hôpital Pompidou: un syndicat veut que l'accident du travail soit reconnu
Headline: Suicide of a nurse at the Pompidou hospital: a union wants the accident at work recognized - Titre: Suicide infirmier à l'HEGP : la communauté soignante en attente de mesures fortes
Headline: Nursing suicide at the HEGP: the healthcare community awaiting strong measures - Titre: Un infirmier s’est suicidé à l’hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou
Headline: A nurse committed suicide at the Georges-Pompidou European Hospital - Titre: Suicide d'un infirmier à l'hôpital Georges Pompidou: "C'était un mec en or"
Headline: Suicide of a nurse at the Georges Pompidou hospital: "He was a golden guy" - Titre: Paris : un suicide rouvre les plaies à l'hôpital Pompidou
Headline: Paris: a suicide reopens the wounds at the Pompidou hospital - Titre: Manifestation d'une petite partie des salariés de l'hôpital de Chinon ce jeudi
Headline: Demonstration of a small part of the employees of the hospital of Chinon this Thursday
Honduras
India
- Headline: Agitating Gandhi Hospital nurses may be fired
- Headline: Delhi: 500 AIIMS nurses on strike over colleague’s death during treatment
- Headline: AIIMS health services hit as nurses protest over colleague’s death
- Headline: 500 AIIMS nurses in Delhi on strike
- Headline: Know why 500 AIIMS nurses are striking in Delhi
- Headline: 500 AIIMS Nurses In Delhi Go On Strike Over Colleague’s Death During Treatment
- Headline: AIIMS in Chaos: Nurses on strike, Doctors Suspended, RDA threatening strike
- Headline: Pregnant nurse's death: Five AIIMS doctors suspended
- Headline: Nurses threaten strike, AIIMS administration faces double jeopardy
- Headline: AIIMS doctors on partial strike over suspension of colleagues
- Headline: AIIMS doctors threaten to go on strike over suspension of 5 colleagues
Ireland
- Headline: Trolley numbers up 26% as 517 wait for hospital admission
- Headline: Number waiting for treatment in Portlaoise hospital shoots back up
- Headline: Health chiefs accused by top medic of treating pregnant women as an 'inconvenience'
- Headline: Nurses and HSE in talks over staffing levels
- Headline: University Hospital Limerick peaks national overcrowding
- Headline: Talks with nurses and doctors to test State’s new pay strategy
- Headline: Ireland’s ‘chronically understaffed’ health service is at risk of collapse as medical staff head to UK
- Headline: Nursing union meets HSE for talks amid ongoing dispute
- Headline: INMO meet with HSE management over staffing dispute
- Headline: Nurses could be in line for special pay deal
- Headline: Nurses and railworkers in talks with management today
- Headline: Nurses strike moves step closer after talks break down
- Headline: INMO gives health bosses 24 hours to ‘radically’ up plan
- Headline: Hospital strikes loom after talks on nursing staff crisis collapse
- Headline: Nurses and midwives ‘more than likely’ to ballot for strike
- Headline: Nurses' pay 'too low' as HSE attempts to bring them home
- Headline: INMO announces nurses to take industrial action in March
- Headline: Nurses to carry out industrial action from early March
- Headline: Nurses vote to take part in industrial action from March 7 over ‘understaffing and chronic overcrowding’
- Headline: Nurses to begin industrial action in March after rejecting 'totally inadequate' HSE proposals
- Headline: Nurses to take nationwide action from next month
- Headline: Nurses vote for industrial action after staff crisis deal rejected
- Headline: Record 545,000 patients on waiting lists by end of January
Kenya
- Headline: Elgeyo Marakwet nurses call off strike after meeting county officials
- Headline: Nurses union asks members to stop offering HIV tests
- Headline: Nurses in Tharaka-Nithi strike again over delayed salaries
Mexico
- Titular: Suman 200 despidos injustificados: SNTSA
Headline: Unjustified dismissals of 200 redundancies: SNTSA - Titular: Faltan 500 plazas en el Canseco
Headline: There are 500 positions lacking in el Canseco - Titular: Personal médico del sector público no atiende a pacientes como a nivel particular por deficiencias en instituciones: González
Headline: Medical staff in the public sector do not treat patients adequately due to deficiencies in institutions: González
New Zealand
Pakistan
- Headline: Nurses to boycott work across Sindh today
- Headline: Nurses on province-wide strike, for their demands
Portugal
South Africa
- Headline: MEC must be held accountable for her deeds – DENOSA Gauteng
- Headline: Denosa to march on SANC over nursing licenses
- Headline: Denosa: Shortage of nurses to blame for lack of service delivery
- Headline: Dire shortage of nurses nationwide
Spain
- Titular: El 73% de los enfermeros ha sufrido al menos un accidente biológico
Headline: 73% of nurses have suffered a physical injury - Titular: Satse critica "el incumplimiento" de la normativa andaluza sobre trasplantes por parte del Hospital de Antequera
Headline: Satse criticizes Antequera Hospital for "non-compliance" of the Andalusian regulations on transplants - Titular: Satse reclama que los presupuestos recojan el pago de la carrera profesional
Headline: Satse demands the budget includes the payment of the nurse salaries - Titular: Enfermeras piden "revisiones periódicas" de hospitales y ambulatorios de Girona
Headline: Nurses call for "periodic reviews" of hospitals and outpatient clinics in Girona - Titular: SATSE Toledo pide reunirse con el nuevo gerente para abordar la situación del Complejo Hospitalario
Headline: SATSE Toledo asks to meet with the new manager to address the situation at Hospital Complex - Titular: Satse denuncia al gerente del SMS "por no controlar las irregularidades laborales del exjefe de la UCI de La Arrixaca"
Headline: Satse denounces the SMS manager "for not controlling the work irregularities of the former head of the ICU of La Arrixaca" - Titular: Satse se concentra este lunes contra el Sergas para reactivar la Carrera Profesional imitando a las legiones romanas
Headline: Satse will focus this Monday against the Sergas to revive the Professional Career, imitating the Roman legions - Titular: La Junta niega déficit de atención por falta de médicos y enfermeros
Headline: Health Board denies a lack of doctors and nurses - Titular: Saturación de las urgencias bajo el efecto de los recortes
Headline: The influx of emergencies under the effects of austerity cuts
United Kingdom
- Headline: Staff shortages are threatening the NHS
- Headline: Medway Maritime Hospital to recruit 120 nurses from Philippines
- Headline: Union asks nurses to help draw up 24-hour snapshot of NHS staffing levels
- Headline: Nurse staffing levels 'remains challenge' at trust rated 'good' by regulator
- Headline: North Tees hospital not meeting nurse staffing targets as 'crisis' mounts across NHS
United States
- Headline: The Medicare-for-All Imperative: Beyond “Saving” the Affordable Care Act
- Headline: The Sanders-Cruz debate - humane health care or free market fundamentalism?
- Headline: DNC race grinds on as progressives and protesters strategize
- Headline: California’s John Burton backs Keith Ellison for DNC chair
- Headline: The anti-Trump protest movement digs in -- but can it win?
- Headline: Bill would ban local government control regarding employment
- Headline: Obamacare repeal gives hope for advocates of single-payer healthcare
- Headline: High court nominee Gorsuch likely Trump ally in regulation cuts
Venezuela
- Titular: FOTOS: Marcha del sector salud fue impedida por PNB y colectivos
Headline: PHOTOS: March of the health sector was blocked by PNB and collectives - Titular: Trabajadores seguirán protestando por crisis en el sector sanitario
Headline: Workers continue protesting over health sector crisis - Titular: Enfermeros del Táchira reclaman la discusión del contrato colectivo
Headline: Nurses of the Táchira demand discussion of the collective agreement