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International Nurse News Round-Up
Australia
- Headline: 'Dysfunctional', 'unsafe': Review damns SA's community mental health services
- Headline: Bellarine Community Health under fire for axing on-call nurse for palliative care patients
- Headline: Flu and gastro outbreak at Blacktown Hospital puts nurses under strain impacting patients
- Headline: Gold Coast nurses injured in attacks from patients at Robina mental health unit
- Headline: Demand aged care plans, nurse tells families
Brazil
- Manchete: Enfermeiros farão assembleia para decidir sobre greve
Headline: Nurses to hold a meeting to decide on strike - Manchete: Trabalhadores da Saúde de Aracaju suspendem greve
Headline: Aracaju Health Workers suspend strike
Canada
- Titre: Accouchement à l'extérieur de l'hôpital de Ville-Marie : la FIQ réclamait des correctifs depuis des années
Headline: Childbirth outside the Ville-Marie hospital: the FIQ has been demanding corrective measures for years - Titre: La FIQ inquiète pour la population
Headline: The FIQ is worried about the community - Headline: Nurses frequently suffer workplace injury from violence
- Headline: We can't have a temporary solution.' Surge in sick babies prompts calls for more planning, funding for Ontario neonatal care
- Headline: Public health nurses could be headed for strike
- Headline: Public health nurse strike looms
- Headline: Society 'failed' Marlene Carter: Royal shoots back after $75,000 health and safety fine
- Headline: Mental health-care facility didn’t do enough to protect injured worker: unions
- Headline: NSGEU turns up heat over loss of retirement bonus for Nova Scotia’s public sector
- Headline: Unions condemn Grits for proclaiming bill imposing wage package
- Titre: La Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec séduite par les propositions du PQ
Headline: The FIQ intrigued by the proposals of the PQ - Titre: La FIQ favorise les solutions du Parti québécois en matière de santé
Headline: The FIQ supports Parti Québécois health solutions - Titre: Le Québec a les pires urgences en occident, affirme la CAQ dans une publicité
Headline: Quebec has the worst emergencies in the West, says the CAQ in an advertisement - Titre: Fermeture des lits à Amos : d'autres hôpitaux de la région seront touchés
Headline: Amos closure: other hospitals in the region will be affected
Dominican Republic
Honduras
Ireland
- Headline: Brexit ‘can help solve nursing shortage’
- Headline: Nurses urged by their union to back new public service pay deal
- Headline: Major concerns over health and safety breaches at UHG
- Headline: Nurses say streamlining UHG services has not solved overcrowding problem
- Headline: Union recommends nurses back public service pay deal to roll back recession measures
- Headline: HSE seeks extra funding after summer spike in people on trolleys
- Headline: UHG is most overcrowded hospital in the country today
- Headline: Hospital confirms 15 nurses have left Limerick's emergency unit
- Headline: 'Shocking and unacceptable' scenes in University Hospital Limerick
- Headline: Naughton endorses INMO call for additional bed capacity at UHG
- Headline: Nurses leaving emergency ward at University Hospital Limerick due to 'pressure'
- Headline: UHL Nurses Denied Meeting With Management Over Persistent Overcrowding
Kenya
- Headline: Striking Migori nurses vow to stay off work until CBA is signed
- Headline: Nurses’ strike at MTRH suspended as official is threatened with jail term
- Headline: Uhuru, governors urge nurses to end strike
- Headline: President Uhuru pleads with governors to end nurses strike
- Headline: Moi hospital nurses sign deal, call off strike
- Headline: Governors signal move to end nurses’ 3-month strike
- Headline: Stop using ‘fake’ officials to frustrate nurses, governors told
- Headline: Nurses initiate talks for better job grades
New Zealand
- Headline: Global health community plead to be heard ahead of TPP11 meeting
- Headline: Nurses to march on Coast for underfunded health system
- Headline: Canterbury DHB struggles to hire mental health staff from overseas
- Headline: Nurses against privatised rebuild
- Headline: 2000 protest new health centre plan
- Headline: Big crowd at Buller health centre protest
- Headline: Many protest health PPP
- Headline: Protesters set to gather in Westport against small, 'not fit for purpose' health facility
Peru
- Titular: Minsa: federación de enfermeras levantó huelga
Headline: Minsa: federation of nurses ends strike - Titular: Las enfermeras del Minsa anunciaron suspensión de huelga tras lograr acuerdos
Headline: Minsa nurses announces suspension of strike after reaching agreements - Titular: Enfermeras suspenden huelga tras reunión con Minsa
Headline: Nurses suspend strike after meeting with Minsa - Titular: Federación de Enfermeras finalizó huelga indefinida tras acuerdo con el Ministerio de Salud
Headline: Federation of Nurses end indefinite strike after agreement with the Ministry of Health - Titular: ENFERMERAS DEL MINISTERIO DE SALUD SUSPENDEN HUELGA TRAS LOGRAR ACUERDOS
Headline: Nurses at the Ministry of Health suspend strike after reaching agreements - Titular: Las enfermeras se reincorporaron a sus labores tras la suspensión de la huelga
Headline: The nurses rejoin their work after the suspension of the strike
Philippines
Portugal
- Manchete: Enfermeiros dizem que segurança dos doentes está em risco e deixam apelo ao Presidente
Headline: Nurses say patient safety is at risk and appeal to President - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros envia ao Governo pré-aviso de greve de 5 dias
Headline: Union of Nurses sends government notice of 5-day strike - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros marca semana de greve nacional em setembro
Headline: Union of Nurses marks national strike week in September - Manchete: Enfermeiros de saúde materna voltam a protesto que afecta blocos de parto
Headline: Maternal health nurses return to protest that affects birth units
South Africa
- Headline: Denosa bids to tackle staff shortages
- Headline: Health department aims to hire 1 000 nurses and 70 doctors
- Headline: Less spent on health as hospital posts frozen
Spain
- Titular: Satse critica el retraso en la publicación de listas actualizadas de la Bolsa de Empleo del SAS y pide que se acelere
Headline: Satse criticizes the delay in the publication of updated lists of the SAS Employment Exchange and asks that it be accelerated - Titular: Satse pide al Reina Sofía que detalle los gastos de su 40 aniversario
Headline: Satse asks Queen Sofia to detail the expenses of its 40th anniversary - Titular: Satse reclama la convocatoria de una mesa técnica específica para regular el "solape" de Enfermería en Andalucía
Headline: Satse calls for the convocation of a specific technical table to regulate the "overlap" of Nursing in Andalusia - Titular: SATSE denuncia la supresión de las extracciones en el centro de salud de Baeza por falta de personal
Headline: SATSE denounces the suppression of services at the Baeza health center due to lack of staff - Titular: Satse advierte de la pérdida de empleo si se vuelve a las 37,5 horas
Headline: Satse warns of job loss if returned to 37.5 hour work week - Titular: Satse denuncia las condiciones de los profesionales de enfermería en la residencia Bellavista de Castellanos de Moriscos
Headline: Satse denounces the conditions of nursing professionals at the residence Bellavista de Castellanos de Moriscos
United Kingdom
- Headline: 'Once a nurse, always a nurse': Dorothy 'Mollie' Harwood passes away at the age of 90
- Headline: Obituary: Champion of nurses, Dorothy 'Mollie' Harwood, MBE has died at the age of 90
- Headline: Almost 4,000 unfilled nursing shifts shows 'crisis' in psychiatric care
- Headline: Lower staffing levels of registered nurses 'puts patients' lives at risk'
- Headline: Lower staff levels of registered nurses driving up hospital mortality rates
- Headline: Every extra patient on a nurse's caseload increases death risks
- Headline: Royal College of Nursing warns projected rise in staff numbers ‘not enough’
- Headline: Warning that hospitals will struggle without EU nursing staff
- Headline: Nurses 'cannot afford to live in Cornwall' as some forced to take three jobs to make ends meet
United States
- Headline: Registered Nurse Response Network deployment to Houston
- Headline: RN Response Network Deploys Nurse Volunteers to Houston to help provide medical assistance post Hurricane Harvey
- Titular: Comunidad de la localidad se une a la ayuda para Houston
Headline: Local community joins support for Houston - Headline: Utah nurse arrested for refusing to give patient’s blood to police
- Headline: Salt Lake City police apologize for officer handcuffing nurse who refused blood draw of unconscious patient
- Headline: SLC mayor and police chief address arrest of U of U nurse caught on video
- Headline: Nurses union formed at local hospital will monitor nurse-to-patient ratios
- Headline: National Nurses opposes Trump threat to end DACA program
- Headline: Nurses threaten strike against Tri-City
- Headline: Close to Home: Why nurses push for single-payer legislation
- Headline: Opinion: Rendon should allow single-payer bill to be heard
- Headline: The debate over single-payer healthcare in California isn't going away. Here's why
- Headline: Austin, Albert Lea nurses ratify Mayo offer on nurses facing layoffs
- Headline: California Democratic Party Endorses Single Payer Bill, SB 562
- Headline: In Wake Of Harvey’s Devastation, Minnesota Sends Help To Houston
- Headline: Local activists to rally in support of the Healthy California Act
- Headline: Locals rally for universal healthcare in California
- Headline: Time to get serious about ‘health care for all,’ says California Assembly leader who blocked it before
- Headline: Single-payer health care revived? California lawmakers to hold hearings this fall
- Headline: Rendon restarts California single-payer debate, critics unimpressed
- Headline: California lawmakers will hold hearings on universal health care during the Legislature's year-end recess.
- Headline: 25 Best Paying Cities for Nurses
- Headline: Calais residents unnerved by loss of obstetrics unit at local hospital
- Headline: Trial probes whether Kaiser can fire outspoken nurse for looking at medical records
- Headline: Ethics, edibles, the economy and impeachment
- Headline: In Wake Of Harvey's Devastation, Minnesota Sends Help To Houston
- Headline: Albert Lea, Austin nurses to vote on Mayo issue
- Headline: Weingarten Applies Only To Mandatory Meetings: DC Circ.
- Headline: DC Circuit Says Nurses Not Improperly Denied Weingarten Rights During Peer Review Investigation Interview
- Headline: Kamala Harris to co-sponsor Bernie Sanders' single-payer health care bill
- Headline: Harris to co-sponsor Sanders' single-payer bill
- Headline: Bernie Sanders: single-payer is not a "litmus test"
- Headline: California activists keep pushing for single payer health bill
- Headline: Democrats take shots at one another in their hunt for a winning economic plan
- Headline: To hurricane-ravaged Houston, with love
- Headline: Katrina Vanden Heuvel: Democrats are starting a fierce internal debate. Finally.
- Headline: Want to Help Harvey Victims? Here's How.
- Headline: Bernie Sanders: Why Medicare-for-All Is Good for Business
- Headline: Feinstein Advises Patience for Trump; Democrats Howl
- Headline: Single-Payer Fight Fuels Primary Challengers Against Establishment Democrats
- Headline: California to take ‘swift legal action’ if Trump allows drilling at national monuments