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International Nurse News Round-Up
Argentina
- Titular: Los enfermeros paran por 72 horas desde el lunes
Headline: Nurses strike for 72 hours starting Monday - Titular: Enfermeros esperan una convocatoria official
Headline: Nurses wait for an official call - Titular: Los enfermeros inician sus primeras horas de paro
Headline: Nurses start their first hours of strike - Titular: Enfermeros iniciaron un paro de 72 horas
Headline: Nurses initiated a 72-hour work stoppage - Titular: En reclamo de aumento salarial, los enfermeros harán paro de 72 horas desde el lunes
Headline: In demand of salary increase, the nurses will strike for 72 hours starting Monday
Australia
- Headline: ANMF state secretary Neroli Ellis to run as independent for Legislative Council seat of Launceston
- Headline: Neroli Ellis announces candidacy for Launceston independent seat in Legislative Council election
- Headline: Emergency overhaul for Mount Gambier Hospital after review sparks major concerns
- Headline: Talking Point: Government’s culture of secrecy and deceit has been exposed
- Headline: Pregnant pause as Family Birth Centre at Cairns Hospital still delayed
- Headline: Public forum with Health Minister Brad Hazzard in the pipeline
- Headline: Health Minister Brad Hazzard says plans for the new Maitland Hospital won't meet the city's future health needs
Brazil
- Manchete: Sindicato dos enfermeiros denuncia defasagem salarial ao Ministério Público do Trabalho
Headline: Nurses' union denounces wage gap to the Labor Ministry - Manchete: Sindicato dos enfermeiros denuncia defasagem salarial ao MPT
Headline: Nurses' union denounces MPT wage gap
Canada
- Headline: Ontario registered nurses to be Canada's first to prescribe medication
- Headline: EXCLUSIVE: Ontario to authorize registered nurses to prescribe drugs
- Headline: Major labour contracts remain unsigned as Nova Scotia budget looms
- Titre: André Robitaille rencontre des femmes inspirantes
Headline: André Robitaille meets with inspiring women - Titre: Budget fédéral:patrons, syndicats et groupes sociaux ont des attentes pressantes
Headline: Federal Budget: Employers, Unions and Social Groups Have Urgent Expectations - Titre: Bill Morneau déposera son budget le 22 mars
Headline: Bill Morneau to table budget on March 22 - Titre: Manque de personnel: un octogénaire est forcé de rester cloué dans son lit toute une journée
Headline: Lack of staff: an octogenarian is forced to stay nailed to his bed for a whole day - Titre: Les infirmières, infirmières auxiliaires et inhalothérapeutes du CISSS-AT s'affilient à la FIQ
Headline: CISSS-AT nurses, auxiliary nurses and respiratory therapists join the FIQ - Titre: Syndicat: les infirmières du CIUSSS de l'Estrie-CHUS choisissent la FIQ
Headline: Union: the nurses of the CIUSSS of the Estrie-CHUS choose to join FIQ - Titre: Dix-huit mois pour s'entendre au CIUSSS
Headline: Eighteen months to agree on CIUSSS - Headline: Nurses agree to three-year contract
- Headline: Sault Area Hospital hydro bill up nearly $1M, forcing layoffs
- Headline: Horwath blames hydro costs forcing hospital layoffs
- Headline: The difficult decisions ‘getting harder to make’
- Headline: Electricity costs at Sault hospital have jumped more than $800K
- Headline: Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare cutting nursing jobs, but expects no layoffs
- Headline: Health unit cuts nursing to vulnerable moms in Haldimand-Norfolk
- Titre: Le budget Leitao du 28 mars comportera des baisses d'impôt
Headline: The March 28 Leitao budget will include tax cuts - Titre: Carlos Leitao présentera son budget le 28 mars à Québec
Headline: Carlos Leitao to present his budget on March 28 in Quebec City - Titre: Prochain budget le 28 mars
Headline: New budget on March 28 - Titre: Budget: les demandes de réinvestissements dans les services publics fusent
Headline: Budget: requests for reinvestment in public services
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Demandan nombramiento de enfermeras
Headline: More nurse staffing demanded - Titular: Llaman paro por salarios de Conape; carencias en asilos
Headline: Strike called for Conape wages; deficiencies in nursing homes - Titular: Conape cancela a organizadores de paros en asilos
Headline: Conape fires organizers of work stoppages - Titular: Denuncian cancelación de empleados en hogares de ancianos que piden alza salarial.
Headline: Retaliation against employees in elderly homes who ask for salary increases. - Titular: Gremios de enfermería ratifican llamado a paro en hospitals
Headline: Nursing unions ratify call for strike in hospitals
France
- Titre: Les infirmiers épuisés mobilisés
Headline: The exhausted nurses mobilize - Titre: Les personnels des hôpitaux et des services publics dans la rue
Headline: Hospital and public service workers in the street - Titre: Mobilisation syndicale - Santé et social
Headline: Trade union mobilization - Health and social services - Titre: Les syndicats mobilisés pour l’hôpital de Vitry
Headline: The unions mobilized for the Vitry hospital - Titre: La profession infirmière se mobilise et s’invite dans la campagne présidentielle
Headline: The nursing profession mobilizes and positions itself in the presidential campaign - Titre: La femme du jour. Isabelle, infirmière anesthésiste
Headline: The woman of the day. Isabelle, nurse anesthetist - Titre: Des milliers d'infirmiers ont manifesté à Paris
Headline: Thousands of nurses demonstrated in Paris - Titre: Pourquoi les infirmiers sont en grève ce mardi
Headline: Why nurses are on strike this Tuesday - Titre: Les infirmiers anesthésistes de l’hôpital en grève
Headline: Anesthetist nurses from the hospital on strike - Titre: Carhaix. Les infirmiers anesthésistes ont répondu à l'appel
Headline: Carhaix. Nurse anesthetists respond to the call - Titre: Argenteuil : une infirmière tente de se suicider devant son service à l’hôpital
Headline: Argenteuil: A nurse attempts suicide in front of hospital service
India
Ireland
- Headline: Nurses defer planned work-to-rule
- Headline: Nurses and midwives call off planned industrial action
- Headline: Planned industrial action by Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation deferred following talks at WRC
- Headline: Ballot of nurses and midwives hoped to be completed before end of month
- Headline: Nurses’ industrial action deferred to allow for ballot on proposals
- Headline: Strike deferred at UHG
- Headline: Deferral of nurses’ strike buys Government some time
- Headline: Nurses to seek significant pay rises in next public service deal
- Headline: INMO to put deal with HSE to members for approval
- Headline: INMO say they will defer industrial action
- Headline: Latest: Nurses defer planned work-to-rule
- Headline: Work-to-rule by Irish nurses deferred as INMO to allow for new ballot
- Headline: Funding cut sees hospital beds close at Limerick's St John's
- Headline: Talks to reopen ground floor at St John's Hospital in Limerick
- Headline: Fewer Leaving Cert students are pursuing a career in nursing than ever before
- Headline: Public hospital waiting lists climb above 550,000
- Headline: 513 'delayed discharge' patients in hospital beds
- Headline: Tullamore is one of the most overcrowded hospitals in the country
- Headline: Surgeon jailed in Bahrain for treating protesters is released
- Headline: A Nurse’s World: ‘I feel I am too poor to get pregnant’
- Headline: 24 people waiting for a bed at Letterkenny University Hospital this morning according to INMO
- Headline: 17 patients on trolleys at Naas Hospital
Israel
- Titre: Le meurtre d’une infirmière choque les équipes médicales et déclenche un mouvement de grève
Headline: The murder of a nurse shocks medical teams and triggers a strike - Headline: Opinion: Protect our nurses
- Headline: Sympathy and outrage over nurse’s murder
Kenya
- Headline: 700 nurses on strike over sad state of facility
- Headline: Elgeyo Marakwet to fire 51 striking doctors
- Headline: Nurses now demand Sh20, 000 monthly risk allowance awarded to striking doctors
- Headline: Conflicting accounts on status of 64 sacked county nurses
- Headline: Kenya: Strike By Tharaka-Nithi Nurses Enters a Month As Stalemate Persists
Malawi
Mexico
- Titular: Los salvaron y ahora quieren regresarlos
Headline: They saved them and now they want them to return - Titular: Disminuye personal en Hospital General de Tijuana
Headline: Staff cuts at Tijuana General Hospital - Titular: Podrían despedir a enfermeras en protesta
Headline: They could fire nurses in protest
New Zealand
- Headline: 'Urgent' plans to move facilities stranded at derelict Princess Margaret Hospital in Christchurch delayed
- Headline: Father starts petition against hospital parking fees
- Headline: Waikato Hospital patient fears for pregnant nurse
Philippines
- Headline: 10 Filipino nurses held captive by IS arrive in Manila
- Headline: 8 nurses back after IS ordeal, DFA says
Portugal
- Manchete: Enfermeiros de Lisboa em greve, médicos preparam luta
Headline: Lisbon nurses on strike, doctors prepare fight - Manchete: Enfermeiros convocam greve em Lisboa
Headline: Nurses call strike in Lisbon - Manchete: Enfermeiros discutem formas de luta contra discriminação no pagamento de trabalho extra
Headline: Nurses discuss ways of combating discrimination in overtime payments - Manchete: Horas extra: ministro disponível para negociar com médicos e enfermeiros
Headline: Overtime: minister open to negotiate with doctors and nurses - Manchete: Enfermeiros concentraram-se em frente ao Centro de Saúde de Sete Rios
Headline: Nurses gather in front of the Health Center of Sete Rios - Titular: Enfermeras amenazan con huelga el 30 y 31 de Marzo
Headline: Nurses threaten strike on March 30 and 31 - Manchete: Enfermeiros em greve a 30 e 31 de março
Headline: Nurses on strike March 30 and 31 - Manchete: Greve dos enfermeiros marcada para 30 e 31 de março
Headline: Nurses strike scheduled for March 30 and 31 - Manchete: Enfermeiros ameaçam com greve a 30 e 31 de Março
Headline: Nurses threatening to strike on March 30 and 31 - Manchete: Enfermeiros marcam greve para 30 e 31 de Março
Headline: Nurses strike 30 and 31 March - Manchete: Enfermeiros dos Centros de Saúde de Lisboa Norte em greve
Headline: Nurses at the Lisbon North Health Centers on strike - Manchete: Greve dos enfermeiros arranca esta quinta-feira
Headline: Nurses strike starts this Thursday - Manchete: Enfermeiros dos centros de Lisboa Norte em greve
Headline: Nurses from the centers of Lisbon North on strike
South Africa
- Headline: Release report on the state of public hospitals – Denosa
- Headline: Report on conditions of health facilities must be made public – DENOSA
- Headline: Unions say hospital unit a danger zone
Spain
- Titular: 1.000.000 de niños y jóvenes madrileños no tienen enfermera escolar
Headline: 1.000.000 of children and young people of Madrid do not have school nurse - Titular: SATSE pide 400 plazas de enfermeras para garantizar el servicio en los hospitales de la region
Headline: SATSE calls for 400 nurses' posts to guarantee service in hospitals in the region - Titular: Satse critica la "mala" gestión de gerente de Asistencia Sanitaria de Segovia
Headline: Satse criticizes the "bad" management of Health Care manager of Segovia - Titular: Satse pide la dimisión de la gerente del Área Sanitaria de Plasencia
Headline: Satse calls for resignation of the manager of the Sanitary Area of ​​Plasencia - Titular: SATSE reclama a Sanidad que cambie el Barómetro Sanitario por menospreciar a los profesionales de Enfermería
Headline: Satse calls on Health to change the Health Barometer that disparages the nursing profession - Titular: Satse denuncia que los presupuestos no contemplan reconocer los niveles profesionales
Headline: Satse denounces that the budget does not evaluate the recognition of professionals - Titular: El sindicato SATSE denuncia la falta de personal en el Servicio de Pediatría del Hospital Comarcal de Melilla
Headline: The SATSE union denounces the lack of personnel in the Pediatric Ward of the Comarcal Hospital of Melilla - Titular: Satse exige medidas para conciliar la vida laboral y familiar en enfermería
Headline: Satse demands measures to reconcile work and family life in nursing - Titular: Los sindicatos piden más personal en el hospital y para educación especial
Headline: Unions call for more staff in the hospital and for special education - Titular: SATSE vincula con los recortes la mala valoración de la Sanidad andaluza en el Barómetro Sanitario de 2016
Headline: SATSE links budget cuts with the poor evaluation of Andalusian Health in the Health Barometer of 2016 - Titular: Satse presenta sus tres primeras publicaciones científicas
Headline: Satse presents its first three scientific publications - Titular: «Siempre se deben denunciar las agresiones, ayuda a educar»
Headline: "Attacks must always be denounced, help to educate" - Titular: Satse exige que no haya recortes en la gestión
Headline: Satse demands that there be no cuts in management - Titular: Satse denuncia el incremento de agresiones a las enfermeras de Castilla y León
Headline: Satse denounces the increase of violence against nurses of Castile and Leon - Titular: Más de 200 profesionales sanitarios andaluces sufrieron alguna agresión el pasado año
Headline: More than 200 Andalusian health professionals suffered some aggression last year - Titular: SATSE reclama la creación de un Observatorio de Agresiones a Profesionales del Sistema Nacional de Salud
Headline: SATSE calls for the creation of an Observatory of Aggression to Professionals of the National Health System - Titular: En el total de las categorías hubo 187 casos de violencia
Headline: In all categories there were 187 cases of violence - Titular: Salud y organizaciones profesionales y sindicales se concentran contra las agresiones a sanitarios en Córdoba
Headline: Health and professional and union organizations are rallying against violence against health workers in Cordova - Titular: Málaga es la provincia con más enfermeros agredidos
Headline: Malaga is the province with the most attacks on nurses - Titular: Rebeca Pérez Gil renueva al frente del sindicato de enfermería SATSE en Palencia
Headline: Rebeca Pérez Gil renews the platform of the SATSE nursing union in Palencia - Titular: FeSP-UGT, CSIF y SATSE condenan la agresión del San Pedro
Headline: FeSP-UGT, CSIF and SATSE condemn San Pedro's aggression - Titular: Satse llegará hasta los tribunales por las jornadas de más de 12 horas si el SMS las prohíbe
Headline: SATSE will go to court against work days longer than 12 hours - Titular: Denuncian que el Sacyl relega a las enfermeras a un segundo plano
Headline: SATSE reports Sacyl relegates nurses to the background - Titular: Enfrentamiento de médicos y enfermeros por los turnos
Headline: Clash of doctors and nurses - Titular: SATSE y CESM, enfrentados por la jornada laboral de más de 12 horas para los enfermeros
Headline: SATSE and CESM, faced with working days of more than 12 hours for nurses - Titular: Masiva concentración ante el Hospital de Benavente para evitar el cierre de la primera planta
Headline: Massive protest in front of Benavente Hospital to avoid the closure of the first ward - Titular: Satse critica que el SAS "intenta cerrar" las camas de alta frecuentación del Hospital Clínico
Headline: Satse criticizes that SAS "tries to close" the high frequency beds at the Clinical Hospital - Titular: Salvaje agresión múltiple: un paciente arrolla a 5 enfermeros
Headline: Violent outburst: one patient coils 5 nurses
United Kingdom
- Headline: 'Lots of nurses have already left': EU workers head for exit
- Headline: Brexit adds to UK's NHS malaise
- Headline: Extra £2bn for social care must benefit NHS, says Hammond
- Headline: Jeremy Corbyn leads march against British NHS cuts
United States
- Headline: Labor leaders grapple with how to halt the Trump agenda
- Headline: Inhaling Toxic Smoke From Surgical Procedures Threatens Everyone in the Room — From Healthcare Workers to Patients
- Headline: The Republican House of Horrors offers a Terrifying Health Care Vision
- Headline: What happens when there’s too much freedom of choice in health care?
- Headline: How the GOP's Healthcare Plan Helps Make Case for Medicare-for-All
- Headline: As ACA faces repeal, California has a better alternative
- Headline; Organized Medicine Blasts ACA Replacement Proposal
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Headline: Nurses Call on Texas Senate to Reject Attack on Women - Headline: Resist Trump Tuesday: Fighting the Banks That Fund Pipelines
- Headline: ‘Resist Trump’ march in Oakland focuses on environmental issues
- Headline: AFL-CIO’s Trumka: “We will fully oppose repeal of the ACA”
- Headline: President Mike Pence Doesn’t Sound Quite So Bad, Some Top Democrats Say
- Headline: DC Fil-Ams join ‘A Day Without a Woman’ strike
- Headline: "A Day Without a Woman" Goes Global
- Headline: “A Day without a Woman” brings Fil-Ams out into the streets
- Headline: Nurses union balks at proposal to link raises to patient surveys: Sanford Bemidji, Minnesota Nurses Association are working on new contract
- Headline: Nurses threaten strike over pay raise proposal
- Headline: Nurses' union reports a rise in complaints of unsafe hospital practices
- Headline: Nurses union, Sanford strike tentative deal
- Titre: États-Unis. RoseAnn DeMoro au chevet du progressisme
Headline: United States. RoseAnn DeMoro at the bedside of progressivism - Headline: New threats to patient safety at the VHA
- Headline: Quelling a storm of violence in healthcare settings
- Headline: Resist Trump Tuesdays: Fighting the Banks That Fund Pipelines
- Headline: The GOP Wants More Health Care Choices. Is That Really a Good Idea?
- Headline: Union leaders turn thumbs down on GOP health care proposal
- Headline: Houston constituents fearful of GOP health bill
- Headline: Union presidents struggle with political strategies
- Headline: Affinity Medical Center cutting jobs
- Headline: Tentative deal reached
- Headline: National COSH releases ‘action agenda’ for protecting workers
- Headline: Newsom to pitch universal health care as California governor’s race grows crowded
- Headline: Can California Achieve Universal Health Care in the Age of Trump?
- Headline: State legislators work on bill to establish single payer healthcare system
- Headline: Activists Mobilize For Universal Health Care As Republicans Propose Limiting Coverage
- Headline: Nurses applaud SLO Board of Supervisors vote to uphold rejection of Phillips 66 oil train project
- Headline: Union leaders turn thumbs down on GOP health care proposal
Venezuela
- Titular: Enfermeras alertan acciones de calle por crisis del sector
Headline: Nurses call for action in the streets against the health sector crisis - Titular: Enfermeras denuncian desabastecimiento de insumos
Headline: Nurses report lack of supplies - Titular: Colegio de Enfermería: El gremio de salud no tiene nada que celebrar
Headline: College of Nursing: The health guild has nothing to celebrate - Titular: Enfermeras: No tenemos insumos ni medicamentos
Headline: Nurses: We have no supplies or medicines