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International Nurse News Round-Up
Argentina
- Titular: Hoy se llevará a cabo la XXVII Jornada de Enfermería en el Hospital Municipal
Headline: Today the XXVII Day of Nursing will be carried out at the Municipal Hospital - Headline: Minister 'must act' to stop slashing of care hours: Union
- Headline: Union calls for South Australian nurses to have patient discharge powers
- Headline: SA Health 'moves bullies from unit to unit', workers allege
- Headline: NSW private-sector hospital upgrades axed
- Headline: New Maitland Hospital not-for-profit plan 'not good enough': Health Services Union
- Headline: Dubbo MP Troy Grant to present nurses's petition to State Parliament
- Headline: Bowral backdown prompts calls for similar decision at Shellharbour
- Headline: Future of hospital parking in council's hands
- Headline: State government drops plans for public-private partnership in $200-million redevelopment of Wyong Hospital
- Headline: Aged care staff cuts in the South Burnett
Brazil
Canada
- Headline: Chatham hospital cuts will hamper emergency care, say nurses
- Headline: Nurses' union says job cuts mean worse care
- Headline: Local health coalition grateful for funding, concerned about loss of full-time nurses
- Headline: 150 Years of Resistance
- Headline: What you need to know about the closure of Winnipeg QuickCare clinics
- Titre: Le nombre de congés de maladie pour santé mentale explose
Headline: The number of sick leaves for mental health explodes - Titre: Hausse des congés de maladie pour des problèmes psychologiques au CIUSSS
Headline: Sick leave for mental health increases at CIUSSS
Dominican Republic
- Titular: CMD amenaza con paralizar los hospitales
Headline: CMD threatens to paralyze hospitals - Titular: Enfermeras realizan manifestación por el 5% del presupuesto para la salud
Headline: Nurses carry out demonstration for approval of 5% health budget increase
France
Honduras
India
- Headline: Kerala nurses demand higher wages, over 80,000 to go on indefinite strike from 17 July
- Headline: Nurses’ strike: Private hospitals to remain closed from Monday
- Headline: Hospital crisis looms large in Kerala as 80,000 nurses to go on strike from Monday...
- Headline: Hospital threatens, chases nurses away
- Headline: Thousands of private hospital nurses are on an indefinite strike in Kerala: here's why
- Headline: 5,000 Nurses In Private Hospitals Strike In Kerala, Demand Wage Revision
- Headline: Nurses in more hospitals join stir
Ireland
- Headline: €24 million cash injection hasn’t cured University hospital Limerick ills
- Headline: Increase in numbers waiting on beds at Tullamore A&E
- Headline: Record levels of hospital overcrowding this year
- Headline: Patients on trolleys in Portlaoise Hospital shoot back up after two zero days
- Headline: UHL ED Most Overcrowded In Country Again
Kenya
- Headline: Equal Pay for Equal Work? Kenyan Nurses Push the Envelope
- Headline: Nurses, the ignored cog in Kenya’s health wheel
- Headline: Help us end month-long strike, nurses urge Uhuru
Mexico
- Titular: Paran labores en Hospital de la Niñez
Headline: Workers at Niñez Hospital go on strike - Titular: Realizan paro en Hospital de la Niñez de Oaxaca
Headline: Strike is carried out at Hospital de la Niñez - Titular: Protestan enfermeras por malos tratos en Hospital General
Headline: Nurses protest poor treatment at General Hospital - Titular: Piden protección para enfermeras de Hospital General de Iztapalapa
Headline: Call for protection for nurses at General Hospital of Iztapalapa - Titular: Pide Morena seguridad y derechos para enfermeras de hospital de Iztapalapa
Headline: Demands for security and rights for hospital nurses of Iztapalapa - Titular: Manifiestan a ONU situación de derechos humanos en Chiapas
Headline: UN human rights situation in Chiapas
Morocco
New Zealand
- Headline: ‘Significant jump’ in Wakari Hospital assaults
- Headline: Art drives change in attitude to office tattoos
- Headline: Union claims Southern DHB faces $7 million shortfall this year
- Headline: Christchurch's Hillmorton Hospital faces 'acute' shortage of mental health nurses
Portugal
- Manchete: Enfermeiros em greve entre 31 de julho e 4 de agosto
Headline: Nurses strike between July 31 and August 4 - Manchete: Enfermeiros obstétricos temem que Governo desvalorize protesto
Headline: Obstetric nurses fear government may devalue protest - Manchete: Enfermeiros aguardam até setembro por proposta do Governo
Headline: Nurses wait until September for government proposal - Manchete: Enfermeiros aguardam por proposta do Governo sobre especialistas
Headline: Nurses wait for government proposal on specialists
South Africa
- Headline: Health department ordered to place graduate nurse as backlog piles up
- Headline: KZN nurses dress in civvies after 'uniform allowance' bungle
Spain
- Titular: Satse asegura que los hospitales dejarán de realizar 4.000 operaciones en vera
Headline: Satse says hospitals will stop performing 4,000 surgical operations this summer - Titular: Satse critica varias deficiencias del consultorio de Cártama
Headline: Satse criticizes several deficiencies of Cártama's practice - Titular: Satse denuncia la reducción de la plantilla del personal de enfermería durante el periodo estival en el Hospital del Bierzo
Headline: Satse denounces the reduction of the staff of the nursing staff during the summer period in the Hospital del Bierzo - Titular: Ven insuficiente el refuerzo en enfermería este verano en CyL
Headline: Insufficient staffing this summer in CyL is criticized - Titular: Extremadura aprueba el primer pacto que regula las oposiciones del SES
Headline: Extremadura approves the first pact that regulates the oppositions of the SES - Titular: El sindicato SATSE pide más personal de enfermería en el turno de noche del San Agustín
Headline: The SATSE union asks for more nursing staff during the San Agustín night shift - Titular: El Mad Cool indigna a los enfermeros con una oferta de trabajo "alucinante"
Headline: El Mad Cool outrages nurses with a "mind-boggling" job offer - Titular: El Hospital General reabre una de las plantas cerradas por la presión asistencial
Headline: The General Hospital reopens one of the closed wards due to need for care - Titular: El Satse reivindica el papel de las enfermeras especialistas
Headline: Satse defends the role of specialist nurses - Titular: El Satse habla de «caos» en la bolsa única de empleo del SAS
Headline: The Satse speaks of "chaos" in the SAS single job market
United Kingdom
- Headline: 'The NHS is on its knees, and we are too': Nurse describes 13-hour A&E shift that left her 'broken'
- Headline: Driving students away from nursing is a spectacular act of political self-harm
- Headline: Scrap the cap: 'summer of protest has only just started'
- Headline: "Heartbreaking" figures reveal number of nurses on hardship grants is up by 200% after decade of shrinking pay
- Headline: Nursing and midwive vacancies in Blackpool top 150
- Headline: 'Nurses have put up with too much for too long', union warns after staff numbers on Teesside fall
- Headline: Nurses 'just want to be recognised for our hard work'
United States
- Headline: Police arrest 80 people in organized Senate healthcare bill protest on Capitol Hill
- Headline: Nurses aren’t giving up on California’s single-payer push
- Headline: California Health Care Fight May Show Democratic Party Future In Trump Era
- Headline: The Union That Roars: Nurses Aren’t Giving Up On California’s Single-Payer Push
- Headline: ‘Disgusting & despicable’: California Dems block universal healthcare
- Headline: Nurses’ RoseAnn DeMoro zeroes in
- Headline: 'No Compromise on Health Care': Michael Lighty of National Nurses United
- Headline: This Chicago Politician Is Showing How to Govern From the Left
- Headline: California nurses still pressing lawmakers to vote for single-payer
- Headline: Pollin: Why Single Payer, Now, Is for Real
- Headline: Will Republicans repeal Obamacare? Will California pass Single Payer?
- Headline: California Democrats plunge into 'civil war'
- Headline: Kaiser nurses reach tentative labor agreement with Los Angeles Medical Center
- Headline: Albert Lea nurses approve new Mayo contract
- Headline: Local legislators pessimistic on health care