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International Nurse News Round-Up
Australia
- Headline: Ratio recommended in aged care amendment
- Headline: Industry super fund directors are the highest paid trustees in the country, and Kelly O'Dwyer wants all their secret payments revealed
- Headline: Three MPs feel Archer’s wrath during fiery question time debate
- Headline: Royal Hobart Hospital escalated to level four as Labor asks questions about health in Parliament
- Headline: Nurse visits, extra beds pledged to reduce 'hellish' overcrowding and ambulance ramping at SA hospitals
- Headline: Hunter health insurance rate 'driving force' behind abandonment of Maitland Hospital PPP: Hazzard
- Headline: Nazi prison food better than hospital, claims former POW
- Headline: New Maitland Hospital petition to be debated in NSW Parliament
- Headline: Union threatens boycott of Lismore Base Hospital ward openings
Canada
- Headline: Surge in sick babies prompts Peterborough mom to call for more planning, funding for neonatal care
- Headline: Pallister government considering health care premiums
- Headline: Medavie CEO defends takeover of extramural management
- Titre: Des employés inquiets pour la sécurité des informations personnelles des patients
Headline: Employees worried about the safety of patients' personal information - Titre: Des formations pour protéger de la violence les employés de la santé sont réclamées
Headline: Training to protect health workers from violence is called for - Titre: Une coalition pour dénoncer les compressions dans le domaine de la santé
Headline: A coalition to denounce cuts in health care
India
Ireland
- Headline: No fines issued over A&E crowding
- Headline: Brendan Howlin urges Government to delay water charge refunds so more money can be injected into health system
- Headline: New HEA study shows majority of nursing graduates stay in Ireland
- Headline: A&E overcrowding eases at Tullamore Hospital
Kenya
- Headline: Kenya National Union of Nurses asks SRC to treat nurses as professionals
- Headline: We won’t be cowed by threats, say nurses
- Headline: Clinical health officers demand for better remuneration
- Headline: Nurses snap at CoG: We’ve been sacked 10 times before
- Headline: Council orders governors to replace striking nurses
- Headline: Nurses take to the streets as salary row escalates
- Headline: Consider yourselves sacked, Sang tells striking nurses, orders replacements
New Zealand
Philippines
Portugal
- Manchete: António Costa preparou com ministro da Saúde reunião com sindicato dos enfermeiros
Headline: António Costa has set a meeting with the nurses' union and the Health Minister - Manchete: Maior Sindicato critica forma de protesto dos enfermeiros
Headline: Major Union criticizes nurses' protest form - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros: “Os médicos são 14% dos funcionários e ganham 87% da massa salarial”
Headline: Nurses' Union: "Physicians are 14% of employees and earn 87% of the salary mass" - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros processa hospitais que marcarem faltas injustificadas
Headline: Nurses' Union goes after hospitals for unjustified terminations against on-strike nurses - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros: “Se houver faltas injustificadas, convocamos uma nova greve”
Headline: Union of Nurses: "If there are unjustified terminations, we call a new strike" - Manchete: Presidente do Sindicato dos Enfermeiros Portugueses admite avançar para a greve
Headline: President of the Union of Portuguese Nurses threatens to advance to strike - Manchete: Catarina Martins diz que Governo tem “tardado nas respostas“ aos enfermeiros
Headline: Catarina Martins says that Government has "delayed the answers" to nurses - Manchete: Adesão do turno da noite é de 86%, diz sindicato dos Enfermeiros
Headline: Admission of night shift is 86%, says nurses' union
South Africa
- Headline: Telkom confirms it terminated services to Gauteng health department offices
- Headline: Hospital chaos as just one of 19 lifts works
Spain
- Titular: Satse reclama que haya enfermeras en todos los centros escolares
Headline: Satse demands that there are nurses in all schools - Titular: Madrid. el sindicato de enfermería anima a denunciar la falta de enfermeras en las residencias
Headline: Nurses' Union denounces the lack of nurses in nursing homes - Titular: Denuncian la falta de enfermeras en las residencias de mayores
Headline: Nurses' Union denounces the lack of nurses in nursing homes - Titular: SATSE reclama más empleo público, menos intrusismo y mayor reconocimiento a los fisioterapeutas
Headline: SATSE calls for more public employment, less intrusiveness and greater recognition of physical therapists - Titular: Satse centrará su trabajo en "conseguir más empleo y de calidad"
Headline: Satse President will focus his work on "getting more jobs and improving quality" - Titular: Los sindicatos médicos se unen en defensa de la jornada de 35 horas
Headline: Medical unions unite in defense of the 35-hour workday - Titular: Los profesionales de enfermería, los más afectados en los hospitales
Headline: Nursing professionals, the most affected in hospitals
United Kingdom
- Headline: Nurses Say Nobody Will Want To Do Their Job If The Pay Cap Isn't Lifted For Them Too
- Headline: Anglesey MP joins nurses in 'scrap the cap' call
- Headline: Nurses are really feeling the pinch
- Headline: Protesters take to Parliament Square to demonstrate against public sector pay cap
- Headline: Teachers and nurses threaten to strike unless pay cap is lifted
United States
- Headline: Bernie Sanders's 'Medicare for all' bill needs to pass
- Headline: Why do nurses support Sen. Sanders’ Medicare for All Act?
- Headline: Shasta Regional nurses vote to join union
- Headline: Union vote at SRMC is a victory for patients
- Headline: Shasta Regional Medical Center nurses vote to unionize
- Headline: Sen. Sanders Medicare for All Act – The Time Has Come Today
- Headline: Holdout Democrats face a single-payer surge
- Headline: "Pivotal Moment in American History": Sen. Sanders Unveils Medicare-for-All Bill with 15 Co-Sponsors
- Headline: 'Everyone Covered, No One Goes Broke': Sanders Introduces Medicare for All Bill
- Headline: Sanders Introduces Medicare For All Legislation
- Headline: Medicare for All: Bernie Sanders unveils single-payer health bill
- Headline: Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-Al bill has set the bar for Democrats in 2018 and beyond
- Headline: National Nurses United: Utah nurse assault underscores need for national workplace violence prevention standard
- Headline: Bernie Sanders’ single payer proposal puts spotlight back on SB 562
- Headline: Police Violate Hospital Mission by Assaulting and Arresting Nurse
- Headline: Support for Utah nurse arrested for upholding hospital policy
- Headline: Hospitals must have a clear plan to protect nurses from violence, says National Nurses United leader
- Headline: Inside Bernie Sanders' new 'Medicare for all' bill
- Headline: Dawn of the Berniecrat Party
- Headline: Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris embrace details of ‘Medicare-for-all’ – including tax hikes
- Headline: Nurses union endorses 1st District candidate Randy Bryce
- Headline: Unions respond to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma with help, funds
- Headline: On the picket line: Support Texas Workers Relief Fund
- Headline: Official Washington's go-to trauma hospital struggles with even its designation
- Headline: Bernie Sanders coming back to California
- Headline: Unions set funds, volunteer to help members affected by Irma and Harvey
- Headline: Statewide Town Halls Call for Urgent Action on Healthy California Act SB 562 - Start September 11th
- Headline: San Francisco SNF Fight Ends, Subacute Shortage Persists
- Headline: Will Albert Lea double-check Mayo's numbers?
- Headline: Hospital board focus of town hall questions
- Headline: As nation reels from disasters, 300+ groups endorse sweeping climate bill