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International Nurse News Round-Up
Australia
- Headline: Project Sydney: Push for more nurses to boost patient safety
- Headline: What's in the state budget for Shellharbour Hospital?
- Headline: Gold Coast Health staff say they’re still being slugged by payroll fiasco
- Headline: Flinders Medical Centre head nurse directs staff to speak only English in the staffroom
- Headline: Husband to push for 'Gayle's Law'
- Headline: Aged care workers unlikely to benefit from minimum wage increase
- Headline: Nursing authorities pay tributes to UK terror victim Kirsty Boden and murdered nurse Gayle Woodford
- Headline: Groundbreaking anti-slavery project a first for Australia’s health care sector
Brazil
- Manchete: Enfermeiros e agentes de saúde fazem paralisação
Headline: Nurses and health workers strike - Manchete: Enfermeiros irão paralisar as atividades por 24h
Headline: Nurses to paralyze activities for 24 hours
Canada
- Headline: Canadian Federation of Nurses decry workplace violence, indigenous care shortfalls
- Headline: New study finds violence against Canadian nurses on the rise while patient safety is declining
- Headline: Rachel Notley says opposition parties "like to say that everyone who is part of a union is a thug"
- Headline: HSN professionals to join ONA following labour board ruling
- Headline: ONA wins right to represent more health-care workers at HSN in Sudbury
- Headline: Surveyed nurses say violence in workplace increasing
- Titre: La présidente de la FIQ, Régine Laurent, quittera ses fonctions en décembre
Headline: The President of the FIQ, Régine Laurent, will retire in December - Titre: Départ de la présidente de la FIQ: Régine Laurent a-t-elle des ambitions politiques?
Headline: Departure of President of the FIQ: Does Régine Laurent have political ambitions? - Titre: Présidence de la FIQ: Régine Laurent tirera sa révérence en novembre
Headline: President of the FIQ: Régine Laurent will retire in November - Titre: La syndicaliste Régine Laurent quittera ses fonctions en décembre
Headline: Trade unionist Régine Laurent will leave office in December
Dominican Republic
France
- Titre: Pénurie d'infirmières au centre hospitalier
Headline: Shortage of nurses in the hospital - Titre: Le personnel du CHU de Clermont-Ferrand mobilisé pour dénoncer le manque d'effectifs
Headline: Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital staff mobilized to denounce the lack of staff
Guatemala
- Titular: Sindicalistas advierten que no se modificará el Pacto Colectivo
Headline: Trade unionist warn that the Collective Pact will not be modified - Titular: Sindicato insiste en mantener privilegios en el MSPAS
Headline: Union insists on maintaining benefits at MSPAS
Honduras
- Titular: Enfermeras a paro de labores
Headline: Nurses on strike - Titular: ANEAH anuncia medidas de presión para que Finanzas les pague
Headline: ANEAH announces actions for payments from Finance
Ireland
- Headline: Brexit may stem outflow of nursing staff, claims recruiter
- Headline: There's been a 96% drop in EU nurses going to work in the UK since Brexit
- Headline: Better pay may help us keep our homegrown healthcare talent
- Headline: Government ‘oblivious’ to impact of Brexit in pay talks, union leader complains
- Headline: INMO defers decision on new public pay agreement
- Headline: INMO to book meeting with new Health Minister before deciding on whether to support new pay deal
- Headline: Ní Sheaghdha to succeed Doran as INMO General Secretary
- Headline: Surge in number of HSE managers - as public health nurses dwindle
- Headline: Some progress reported on non-pay issues at talks
Kenya
- Headline: Nurses resort to weekly protests in pay deal push
- Headline: Nurses' union refuses to revise CBA, as CoG claims it lacks funds
- Headline: Governors blame SRC over nurses’ pay row
- Headline: Elgeyo Marakwet nurses' strike today
- Headline: We are not going back to work till CBA effected - Siaya nurses
- Headline: MTRH nurses out on strike, say 2015 pay deal not yet in force
- Titre: Kenya : les infirmières en grève
Headline: Kenya: Nurses on strike
New Zealand
- Headline: Assaults in Wakari ward concern union
- Headline: CNMI hospital to increase salaries of nurses
Portugal
- Manchete: Enfermeiros ameaçam parar blocos de parto
Headline: Nurses threaten to strike - Manchete: Ordem dos Enfermeiros ameaça com greve que irá parar blocos de parto e outros serviços
Headline: Nurses order threatens strike that will stop birth blocks and other services - Manchete: Ameaça dos enfermeiros é à “queima-roupa” e terá consequências se concretizada, diz Ministro da Saúde
Headline: Nurses threat of "burnout" will have consequences if it materializes, says Minister of Health - Manchete: Enfermeiros em greve denunciam pressões
Headline: Striking nurses denounce pressures
South Africa
Spain
- Titular: Faltan enfermeras para atender 200 urgencias diarias en La Inmaculada
Headline: Under-staffing of nurses to attend to 200 daily emergencies in La Inmaculada - Titular: SATSE Ciudad Real exige al SESCAM medidas de seguridad y formación para manipular medicamentos peligrosos
Headline: SATSE Ciudad Real demands SESCAM safety and training measures to handle dangerous drugs - Titular: Satse denuncia deficiencias en el servicio de Farmacia del Hospital Provincial de Córdoba
Headline: Satse denounces deficiencies in the Pharmacy of the Provincial Hospital of Cordoba - Titular: Empleados de Urgencias denuncian «exceso de trabajo» por un repunte de los pacientes
Headline: Emergency workers report 'overworking' to treat influx of new patients - Titular: Siete mil firmas por la gratuidad del aparcamiento de Son Espases
Headline: Seven thousand signatures for the free parking of Son Espases Hospital - Titular: Plan de choque por el calor en el Provincial
Headline: Plan for heat shock this summer in Provincial - Titular: Los sindicatos convocan tres días de huelga en julio en la sanidad privada de Balears
Headline: Trade unions call for three days of strike in July in the private health of the Balears - Titular: Casi todos los centros de salud cerrarán por la tarde en verano
Headline: Almost all health centers will close in the afternoon in summer - Titular: Primera huelga de 24 horas en la clínica IMQ de Zorrotzaurre
Headline: First 24-hour strike in the IMQ clinic of Zorrotzaurre - Titular: Médicos y enfermeros pactan crear un texto de consenso sobre prescripción
Headline: Doctors and nurses agree to create consensus text on prescriptions - Titular: Satse exige la publicación del listado de bolsa única al SAS
Headline: Satse requires the publication of the only admittance listing to the SAS - Titular: Satse alerta de "trato discriminatorio" a profesionales de enfermería de las consultas del Hospital de Écija
Headline: Satse warns of "discriminatory treatment" to nursing professionals in the consultations of the Hospital of Écija - Titular: Satse critica la espera de 550 días para una operación de rodilla
Headline: Satse criticizes waiting 550 days for knee surgery - Titular: Los sindicatos de Osakidetza marchan contra las privatizaciones en los hospitales vascos
Headline: Osakidetza unions march against privatization in Basque hospitals - Titular: Satse augura riesgo para los pacientes si Sanidad retira las ambulancias de los centros de salud
Headline: Satse warns of risk for patients if Health removes ambulances from health centers
United Kingdom
- Headline: RCN calls on May for greater focus on health and social care
- Headline: ‘Simply too few nurses’ working in Scotland’s NHS
- Headline: Corbyn pledges to bring back nursing bursaries if Labour wins election
- Headline: Heroic public sector staff deserve more pay - Hunt
- Headline: Action over staffing 'needed to deliver new education plans'
- Headline: Leading figure in NHS pay negotiations takes on new senior role at Unison
- Headline: Scotland has 'too few nurses', Royal College of Nursing claims
- Headline: Since Brexit vote, only 46 nurses from the EU have registered with the NMC
- Headline: The Guardian view on public sector staff shortages: losing the numbers
- Headline: Fears of an NHS staffing crisis loom large: EU nurses registering to work in the UK plunges from 1,300 to just 46 in less than a year
United States
- Headline: Health-for-all can work, and it will cost you less
- Headline: California Senate Takes First Step Toward State Single-Payer Universal Healthcare
- Headline: The Real Sticker Shock — Not Passing the Healthy California Act
- Headline: The Single-Payer Party? Democrats Shift Left on Health Care
- Headline: The California Senate Just Passed Single-Payer Health Care
- Headline: Offering 'Moral Model' for Nation, California's Medicare for All Plan Clears State Senate
- Headline: California’s ‘Medicare-for-All’ Plan Clears State Senate
- Headline: California Senate committee approves single-payer health care bill
- Headline: Democratic Party Neoliberalism Cannot Defeat Trumpism
- Headline: This Is Why Bernie Sanders Thinks His Political Revolution Is Winning
- Headline: Bernie Sanders, 2020 frontrunner
- Headline: Sanders to faithful: Take down Trump, take over Democratic Party
- Headline: Sanders Gets First Endorsement for 2020 Presidential Race
- Headline: Bernie Sanders urges progressives to seek more electoral wins
- Titular: Un evento en Chicago reúne a activistas y organizaciones comprometidas con los derechos del pueblo
Headline: An event in Chicago brings together activists and organizations committed to the rights of the people - Headline: Liberals soul searching: Question future of Democratic Party at summit
- Headline: Sanders to faithful: Take down Trump, take over Democratic Party
- Headline: 'Inspirational' Corbyn offers blueprint for our party, say left-leaning Democrats
- Headline: Thousands at People’s Summit plan beyond resistance to Trump
- Headline: Bernie Sanders urges progressives to seek more electoral wins
- Headline: Inspired by Sanders, activists push Democrats to the left — or out of the way
- Headline: Democrats look to California for single-payer healthcare
- Headline: Why Are So Many Young Voters Falling for Old Socialists?
- Headline: "A Transformative Vision": Naomi Klein on Platforms for Racial, Health & Climate Justice Under Trump
- Headline: California's Senate Passes Single Payer Health Care Act
- Headline: The single-payer breakthrough in California: Robert Pollin on the economics of universal care
- Headline: Editorial: Wisconsin needs to elect leaders who know health care is a right
- Headline: Minnesota nurses raise money to pay off medical debts of 1,800 patients
- Headline: Nurses concerned about Mayo's Albert Lea, Austin consolidation plan
- Headline: Mayo Clinic Consolidating Albert Lea, Austin Hospitals
- Headline: Mayo Clinic Consolidation Plan Draws Concern of Nurses
- Headline: Inpatient service to be discontinued at Albert Lea Mayo campus
- Headline: Nurses talking unionization
- Headline: Nurses at Bismarck Hospital Considering Unionizing
- Headline: Hospital’s decision angers communities - Vigil held to support OB unit