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International Nurse News Round-Up
Argentina
- Titular: Enfermeros exigen decretos de recategorización
Headline: Nurses demand re-categorization decrees - Titular: Resisten cierre del Servicio de Neonatología del hospital de Guernica
Headline: Closing of the Neonatal Service of the Guernica hospital resisted
Australia
- Headline: Nurses scared at MPS
- Headline: Shellharbour Hospital staff urge State Government to 'have a heart'
- Headline: Staff buoyed by meeting over Shellharbour Hospital plan
- Headline: Nurses tackle NSW Premier over plans to privatise Wyong Hospital
- Headline: Violence in Adelaide hospitals targeted in social media campaign
- Headline: NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian visits region promising infrastructure and jobs to reduce daily commute
Canada
- Titre: Heures supplémentaires « abusives » : les infirmières du CHU de Québec crient victoire
Headline: "Abusive" Overtime: Quebec CHU Nurses Shout Victory - Titre: Quand le temps supplémentaire obligatoire devient la norme
Headline: When compulsory overtime becomes the norm - Headline: Once scorned, Ontario nurses gear up to push for recognition in federal PTSD bill
- Titre: Hôpital Jean-Talon: des infirmières dénoncent leur surcharge de travail
Headline: Jean-Talon Hospital: nurses denounce their work overload - Titre: «Au 6e étage, on manque de tout…»
Headline: "On the 6th floor, we lack everything ..." - Headline: Caregiver’s Strangling Prompts Push for Workplace Violence Rule
Cape Verde
- Manchete: Greve dos enfermeiros: direcção do HAN fala em impasse e garante serviços mínimos
Headline: Nurses' strike: HAN leadership speaks about impasse and guarantees minimum services - Manchete: Polémica com a greve no HAN: PCA reafirma ilegalidades e desafia tomar medidas para proteger os doentes com insuficiência renal
Headline: Controversy over nurses' strike at HAN: PCA reaffirms its illegality, offers steps to protect patients with kidney failure - Manchete: Centro da Diálise do HAN: SINDEF avança com a greve dos enfermeiros 15 Fevereiro 2017
Headline: HAN Dialysis Center: SINDEF advances with the nurses' strike - Manchete: Enfermeiros do Centro de Diálise do HAN suspendem greve
Headline: Nurses at HAN Dialysis Center suspend strike - Manchete: SINDEF acusa administração do Agostinho Neto de autoritarismo
Headline: SINDEF accuses Agostinho Neto's administration of authoritarianism - Manchete: Greve no Centro de Diálise do hospital central da Praia
Headline: Strike in the Dialysis Center of the central hospital of Praia - Manchete: Enfermeiros do Centro da Diálise do HAN suspendem a greve
Headline: Nurses at HAN Dialysis Center halt the strike
Chile
Democratic Republic of Congo
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Diez hospitales con directores; no violan acuerdo enfermeras
Headline: Ten hospitals with directors; they do not violate nurses agreement - Titular: SNS niega incumplimiento de acuerdo con los gremios
Headline: SNS denies breaking the agreement with the unions - Titular: Enfermeras paralizan sus labores en el hospital de Pedernales
Headline: Nurses strike at Pedernales hospital
France
- Titre: « J’arrive à 19 heures, il y a 50 patients et je suis la seule infirmière de garde »
Headline: "I arrive at 7 pm, there are 50 patients and I am the only nurse on duty" - Titre: Rochefort : le personnel soignant a mal à son hôpital
Headline: Rochefort: health care workers are hurting in their hospitals - Titre: Grève aux urgences du CHA : à diagnostic identique, des remèdes un peu différents
Headline: Strike at the CHA emergency department: with identical diagnosis, somewhat different remedies - Titre: «J'ai honte du travail que je fais et de l'infirmière que je suis devenue»
Headline: "I'm ashamed of the work I do and the nurse I've become" - Titre: Grève à l'hôpital Édouard Herriot : la direction reçoit les syndicats
Headline: Strike at Édouard Herriot hospital: management faces unions - Titre: Le Havre : les résultats de l’enquête après le suicide d’une infirmière
Headline: Le Havre: the results of the investigation after a nurse's suicide
India
Ireland
- Headline: Irish nursing union announces planned work to rule over poor staffing levels
- Headline: 'We would be thanking God everyone was still alive at the end of our shifts' - Irish nurse on 'stressful' work environment
- Headline: Government will not confirm status of nurses’ pay increase
- Headline: Ward closures loom with nurses' dispute in deadlock
- Headline: Hospital support staff to strike on same day as nurses’ action
- Headline: INMO first-vice president Mary Leahy on just how tough life is on the frontline of Ireland’s health service
- Headline: Nurses to strike next month
- Headline: Trolley figures at University Hospital Limerick see significant rise
Kenya
- Headline: Migori nurses resume duty after week-long strike
- Headline: Resume work by Tuesday or be fired, striking Trans Nzoia nurses told
New Zealand
Nigeria
Pakistan
- Headline: Nurses announce services strike
- Headline: Nurses on strike
- Headline: Nurses on strike in Quetta hospitals
- Headline: Nurses call off strike
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
- Manchete: Lares da Segurança Social
Headline: Social security homes - Manchete: Marcha em defesa do Centro Hospitalar Barreiro / Montijo Jornada de luta «Todos ao Hospital»
Headline: March in defense of the Hospital Center Barreiro / Montijo Fight Day «Everyone to the Hospital»
South Africa
Spain
- Titular: Las enfermeras exigen más dotación de plantilla y cubrir bajas y permisos
Headline: Nurses demand more staffing and cover sick leave - Titular: Satse reclama a la ministra de Sanidad que cumpla el acuerdo firmado en Moncloa en 2013
Headline: Satse calls on the Health Minister to comply with the agreement signed at Moncloa in 2013 - Titular: Satse "suspende" a la Sanidad pública y privada en las medidas de prevención para evitar los accidentes biológicos
Headline: Satse "suspends" public and private health care in prevention measures to prevent physical accidents - Titular: Satse censura la “falta de personal” en los centros de salud de Granada y provincia
Headline: Satse monitors the "lack of personnel" in the health centers of Granada and the province - Titular: Satse advierte del estado "lamentable" del ambulatorio
Headline: Satse warns of "unfortunate" outpatient status - Titular: El Servicio de Urgencias del Hospital necesita 12 enfermeras más por turno para dar una asistencia adecuada
Headline: The Hospital Emergency Service needs 12 more nurses per shift to provide adequate care - Titular: Piden más enfermeros en la UCI del Reina Sofía
Headline: More nurses are called for in the ICU of Reina Sofia - Titular: Sindicatos piden al Departamento de Salud que «acabe con la precariedad»
Headline: Unions ask the Department of Health to "end precariousness" - Titular: Sindicatos ven "insuficientes" las explicaciones del Sescam por el retraso de la bolsa de trabajo y anuncian protestas
Headline: Unions see Sescam's explanations for the backlog of the job "insufficient" and announce protests - Titular: A trabajar pero seguro
Headline: To work but safely - Titular: Sindicatos del Chuvi anuncian protestas si no se refuerza el personal de Urgencias
Headline: Unions of the Chuvi announce protests if the personnel of ED is not reinstated
United Kingdom
- Headline: NHS crisis: Wales suffering shortage of nurses despite recruitment drive
- Headline: NHS Lanarkshire paying up to £1500 a shift for temporary nurses
- Headline: 450 Filipino nurses interested in Hull Royal Infirmary jobs
United States
- Headline: RNs At Major Kaiser Hospital Announce Tentative Agreement
- Headline: California legislation would create single-payer health care system
- Headline: California bill calls for state-run healthcare system
- Headline: Nurses claim intimidation by Holy Cross management
- Headline: Holy Cross Nurses Rally To Stir Support For Unionization
- Headline: County Council Members, State Senators Join Rally To Unionize Nurses at Holy Cross Hospital
- Headline: Strong community support for Holy Cross nurses
- Headline: Brown legislation to support workers at VA Health Centers
- Headline: Obamacare repeal gives hope for advocates of single payer healthcare
- Headline: Nursing group wants patient load reduced for nurses in Ohio bill
- Headline: Ohio nurses want law limiting nurse-patient ratios
- Headline: Ohio group wants patient load reduced for nurses through new bill
- Headline: Senator Skindell Reintroduces Bill Reducing Nurses' Workload
- Headline: New bill would limit nurse-patient ratios, reduce workload
- Headline: Bill Would Mandate Nurse To Patient Ratios In Ohio's Hospitals
- Headline: Bill Would Mandate Nurse To Patient Ratios In Ohio's Hospitals
- Headline: Ohio nurses want law limiting nurse-patient ratios
- Headline: Nurses back MinnesotaCare expansion as fix for individual market woes
- Headline: Berger-Marks awards celebrate young women organizers, activists
- Headline: Fast food CEO Andrew Puzder withdraws as nominee for labor secretary
- Titre: “Bon débarras” : Andy Puzder ne sera pas ministre du Travail de Trump
Headline: "Good riddance": Andy Puzder will not be Minister of Labor of Trump - Headline: Newsom runs for governor, waging 140-character war against Trump