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International Nurse News Round-Up
Australia
- Headline: Penalty rate cut
- Headline: "One By Nine": Doctors wary of SA Health's hospital discharge campaign
- Headline: Bullied nurse claims she was forced to resign from Cairns Hospital’s troubled maternity ward
Brazil
- Manchete: Greve dos enfermeiros deve ser mantida
Headline: Nurses strike should be maintained - Manchete: Francisco Costa recebe sindicatos de profissionais em saúde
Headline: Francisco Costa meets with health professionals' unions
Canada
- Titre: Des infirmières dédommagées pour les heures supplémentaires «abusives»
Headline: Nurses compensated for "unreasonable" overtime - Titre: Hausse marquée des incidents médicaux
Headline: Significant rise in medical incidents - Titre: Heures supplémentaires obligatoires : « Victoire majeure » pour les infirmières du CHU de Québec
Headline: Mandatory Overtime: "Major Victory" for nurses at the CHU de Québec
Dominican Republic
France
- Titre: « Méprisés et abandonnés », les infirmiers poursuivent leur lutte
Headline: "Despised and abandoned", nurses continue their struggle - Titre: Malaise social à l’hôpital : les syndicats maintiennent la pression
Headline: Social unrest in the hospital: unions maintain pressure
Ghana
Guatemala
- Titular: Pacto Colectivo de Salud a juicio;una oportunidad histórica para enmendar la plana
Headline: Collective Health Pact at trial; A historic opportunity to amend the plan - Titular: Ministra de Salud: El trabajo ha sido en diversos niveles de atención
Headline: Minister of Health: The work has been done at various levels of care - Titular: Pactos colectivos deben revisarse
Headline: Collective agreements must be reviewed
Haiti
Ireland
- Headline: Mac Lochlainn: 33 per cent cut in number of nurses working in Donegal community hospitals
- Headline: Refusal to give nurses pay rise will 'inflame' dispute
- Headline: Last-minute talks aimed at resolving row over doctors scheduled
- Headline: Trolley figures at University Hospital Limerick again hit national peak
- Headline: 1,169 patients attended A&E in Cork last week
Kenya
- Headline: County starts paying nurses' allowances to avert strike
- Headline: 300 Kijabe Hospital nurses on strike over pay rise and ill-treat
- Headline: Embu to give striking nurses pay hike
- Headline: Kijabe hospital reduces admissions over strike
- Headline: 300 Kijabe Mission nurses to down tools
Mexico
Paraguay
Portugal
- Manchete: Enfermeiros de Olhão exigem mais segurança
Headline: Olhão nurses require better safety - Manchete: ARS Algarve criticada por falta de segurança em unidade de desabituação
Headline: ARS Algarve criticized for lack of security in out-patient unit
South Africa
- Headline: Denosa mobilises health workers for national march
- Headline: Protesting nurses are ‘not monkeys, do not eat peanuts’, minister told
- Headline: Nehawu gears up for national march ahead of Budget Speech
Spain
- Titular: SATSE reclama que se compense el solape de jornadas en Enfermería
Headline: SATSE demands that the overlap of days in Nursing be compensated - Titular: Acuerdo de colaboración entre la UCAM y el Sindicato de Enfermería de Murcia (SATSE)
Headline: Agreement of collaboration between the UCAM and the Union of Nursing of Murcia (SATSE) - Titular: La Candelaria reprograma tres operaciones por falta de sangre del tipo 0+
Headline: La Candelaria reprograms three operations for lack of blood type 0+ - Titular: Las enfermeras de Navarra reclaman poder elegir si trabajar el turno de noches cuando superen los 55 años
Headline: The nurses of Navarre advocate for right to choose if they work the night shift if over the age of 55 - Titular: SATSE reclama que las enfermeras de más de 55 años no trabajen las noches
Headline: SATSE demands that nurses over 55 do not work nights - Titular: Aprobada en Mesa Sectorial la orden para derogar la fusión hospitalaria en Granada
Headline: Order to repeal the hospital merger in Granada is approved in Sectorial Bureau - Titular: Aprobada la orden para derogar la fusión y desdoblar de nuevo los dos hospitales
Headline: Oder to repeal the merger and split the two hospitals is approved - Titular: Sanidad obliga a los trabajadores de Atención Primaria a usar su coche para desplazamientos asistenciales
Health: Health requires primary care workers to use their cars for rural work activities - Titular: Ya hay fecha para la gran movilización sindical contra la "inoperancia" del Sescam
Headline: There is already a date for the large union mobilization against the "failure" of Sescam - Titular: Las enfermeras exigen a Cifuentes que empiece “ya” a arreglar los hospitales ante el último derrumbamiento
Headline: The nurses demand that Cifuentes "already" begin to fix the hospitals before the next collapse - Titular: Satse convoca una marcha por la sanidad "sin banderas y sin siglas"
Headline: Satse calls for a march for health "without flags and without acronyms" - Titular: Satse denuncia el "caos asistencial" en la Zona Básica de Salud del Guadiato
Headline: Satse denounces the "chaos of care" in the Guadiato's Basic Health Zone - Titular: SATSE dona 100 guías sanitarias a la Ciudad Atuónoma
Headline: SATSE donates 100 health guides to Ciudad Atuónoma - Titular: Satse entrega 100 guías de asistencia sanitaria para migrantes de habla no hispana a la Ciudad
Headline: Satse delivers 100 health care guides for non-Spanish speaking migrants to la Ciudad - Titular: Satse denuncia masificación en la primera planta del Materno, con pacientes de hasta siete especialidades
Headline: Satse denounces overcrowding on the first floor of the Maternal Hospital, with patients from up to seven specialties
United Kingdom
- Headline: Staffing problems loom due to shortage of trained nurses
- Headline: Pennine plans to recruit 300 extra nurses and midwives
- Headline: Leading nurse staffing expert warns that Francis report lessons are being 'forgotten'
- Headline: £30m NHS jobs tonic
- Headline: NHS loses 9% of public health nurses in a year, triggering fresh workforce warnings
- Headline: Two-thirds of nurses struggle to find time to care properly for the dying
- Headline: NHS IN CRISIS: Health service must not rely on ‘nursing on the cheap’
- Headline: Nurses in Northern Ireland urged to grill candidates on staffing and wages
United States
- Headline: California legislation would create single-payer health care system
- Headline: After Introduction of New Bill, Nurses Rally for Universal Health Care
- Headline: Single-Payer Health Care Bill Introduced In California Senate
- Headline: A new-old health care fight
- Headline: A radical idea revived: Single-payer health care bill introduced
- Headline: California bill calls for state-run health care system
- Headline: California to weigh single-payer, universal health care plan
- Headline: With Obamacare's future uncertain, hundreds rally at state Capitol for single-payer healthcare in California
- Headline: California nurses rally for bill on 1st state-run single-payer health plan
- Headline: ‘Party for the people’? Democrats seek Perez unity but doubters are vocal
- Headline: Health Care Reform 2017: Single-Payer Bill Proposed In California Amid Uncertainty Over Obamacare's Future
- Headline: Union-Busting Republicans Lick Their Lips at the Possibility of a Federal Right-to-Work Law
- Headline: With Obamacare Under Fire, This Is How People Are Pushing for Universal Health Care
- Headline: Single-payer healthcare legislator hits California Senate floor: 5 points
- Headline: Unions unite to fight for Veterans Affairs employees
- Headline: Maine nurses: To avoid shortage, improve our working conditions
- Headline: Nurses picket for better emergency coverage at Mayo-Lake City
- Headline: Why Keith Ellison Matters
- Headline: Dems fear divisions will persist after DNC chair election
- Headline: Keith Ellison’s supporters say Israel attacks helped sink his DNC bid
- Headline: RNs at Major Kaiser Hospital Announce Tentative Agreement
- Headline: Kaiser nurses reach tentative labor agreement with Los Angeles Medical Center
- Headline: Nurses help launch patient-protection bill in Ohio Senate
- Headline: Nurses Engage On Next Health Care Revolution
- Headline: The Future Of The Democratic Party, According To The Bernie Sanders Wing
- Headline: Job and Wage Prospects for Nurses in the U.S. Are Looking Up
- Headline: Defense Win for Mercy Hospital in Case of Fired Nurse
- Headline: Insiders: Tomah VA troubles continue with nurse shortage, neglectful care
- Headline: Can a Sanders Democrat Win the New Jersey Governor’s Race?
- Headline: Progressives riled up after DNC vote