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International Nurse News Round-Up
Argentina
Australia
- Headline: Nearly three in four nurses has been attacked at work in the last year
- Headline: Victorian unionists get organised to support refugees
- Headline: A Bitter Penalty
- Headline: Aged care provider trials use of robot for heavy lifting, giving staff more time with residents
Brazil
- Manchete: "Está todo mundo em pânico", diz servidora após demissões em hospital de Barueri
Headline: "Everyone is in a panic", says worker after layoffs in Barueri hospital - Manchete: Enfermagem ganha na Justiça carga horária de 30 horas semanais em São Luís
Headline: Nursing wins the hourly workload of 30 hours a week in São Luís
Canada
- Headline: Savings breakdown for WRHA revealed, staffing efficiencies and hospital overhaul to save over $55M
- Headline: Nurses' union calls Winnipeg hospital shakeup a 'front-line service cut'
- Headline: Emergency rooms consolidated in Winnipeg
- Headline: Hundreds protest ER closure at Concordia
- Headline: Critics call modest increase in health-care spending a bitter pill to swallow
- Headline: Sask. nurse to fight $26K fine for Facebook comments about grandfather's care
- Titre: Trois centrales pour représenter le personnel du CIUSSS
Headline: Three unions to represent CIUSSS staff - Titre: Chaude lutte syndicale en santé
Headline: Hot battle between health unions - Titre: Le personnel infirmier de l'hôpital de Chicoutimi débordé
Headline: Nursing staff at Chicoutimi Hospital overwhelmed
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Denuncian hospital de Puerto Plata carece de medicamentos y equipos
Headline: Criticism over Puerto Plata hospital's lack of drugs and equipment - Titular: Enfermeras en huelga por deplorables condiciones hospitla de PP
Headline: Nurses on strike over deplorable PP hospital conditions
France
- Titre: À Mayotte, les infirmiers signalent des violences et un accès aux soins compliqué
Headline: In Mayotte, nurses report violence and inadequate access to care - Titre: Les infirmières du bloc opératoire de l'hôpital en grève
Headline: Nurses from hospital operating rooms on strike - Titre: Grève au bloc opératoire : vives tensions entre direction et syndicat
Headline: Strike in the operating room: severe tensions between management and union
Ireland
- Headline: INMO members accept proposals on staffing crisis
- Headline: INMO vote in favour of proposals to address staffing crisis
- Headline: Union vote paves way for new drive to hire nurses
- Headline: Nurses vote to accept Workplace Relations Commission proposals
- Headline: Nurses vote to accept proposals to address staffing crisis
- Headline: Crisis averted? 1,200 nurses and midwives to be hired by end of year
- Headline: Nurses vote for industrial peace - for now
- Headline: INMO accepts recruitment plans
- Headline: Record 9,500 patients on trolleys last month
- Headline: Cork takes 'trolley capital' title as overcrowding crisis worsens
Israel
Kenya
- Headline: Crisis at Nyeri hospital as theatre is shut due to shortage of nurses
- Headline: Kenya: Crisis At Nyeri Hospital As Theatre Is Shut Due to Shortage of Nurses
Mexico
- Titular: Suman 9 enfermeras en huelga de hambre
Headline: 9 nurses join the hunger strike - Titular: Chiapas: activistas recolectan firmas para apoyar a enfermeras en huelga de hambre
Headline: Chiapas: activists collect signatures to support nurses on hunger strike - Titular: Enfermeras terminan huelga de hambre en Chiapas
Headline: Nurses in Chiapas end hunger strike - Titular: ANEM Tehuacán apoya a las enfermeras en huelga de Chiapas
Headline: ANEM Tehuacán supports the striking nurses of Chiapas - Titular: Trabajadores y enfermeras del IMSS protestan frente a la Ssa
Headline: IMSS workers and nurses protest against SSA
Morocco
- Titre: Une grève nationale des infirmiers le 19 avril
Headline: A national strike of nurses on April 19 - Titre: Santé: grève nationale dans les hôpitaux publics
Headline: Health: national strike in the public hospitals
South Korea
Spain
- Titular: Satse presenta más de 800 firmas contra el baremo de la OPE
Headline: Satse collects more than 800 signatures against the OPE scale - Titular: Satse denuncia "saturación" en Reanimación del Reina Sofía
Headline: Satse denounces "saturation" in Reanimación del Reina Sofía - Titular: El personal sanitario pide soluciones ante la falta y la fuga de profesionales
Headline: Health workers ask for solutions to the lack and flight of professionals - Titular: SATSE denuncia la eliminación de tres plazas de enfermería en radiología
Headline: SATSE denounces the elimination of three nursing posts in radiology - Titular: SATSE denuncia que la Junta cierra los quirófanos a pesar de las listas de espera
Headline: SATSE denounces that the Board closes operating wards despite waiting lists - Titular: Satse pide a Sanidad que las enfermeras embarazadas no pierdan poder adquisitivo con la adaptación de puesto
Headline: Satse calls on Health to stop pregnant nurses from losing income while adapting to the job - Titular: Satse reclama mas enfermeras en salud mental para los servicios de salud
Headline: Satse demands more mental health nurses
United Kingdom
- Headline: Nurses vote on strike action after NHS pay cuts leave staff ‘struggling to make ends meet’
- Headline: Nurses begin ballot on industrial action in pay row
- Headline: RCN urges members to take part in consultation on possible strike vote over pay
- Headline: RCN opens consultation on potential industrial action
- Headline: Scotland launches consultation on nurse staffing laws
- Headline: NHS nurses to vote on strike action over cap on wages
- Headline: U.K. Nurses Mull Strike Citing Seven Years' Real-Terms Pay Cuts
United States
- Headline: While Washington Fiddles, California Leaders Forge Ideas for Universal Health Care
- Headline: California Nurses Association: 'We have to push our governor' on single-payer health care
- Headline: National Day of Action for universal health care to take place April 8
- Headline: “Medicare for All” plans might become focus of healthcare debate
- Headline: 'Going on Offense,' Advocates Demand Single-Payer Health Program
- Headline: ‘Repeal and Replace’ fails; now ‘Obamacare’ needs fixing
- Headline: Why So Many Nurses Get Hurt On The Job, Including In Georgia
- Headline: Why Doesn’t the United States Have Universal Healthcare?
- Headline: Can California’s ‘right to try’ law help save terminal patients?