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International Nurse News Round-Up
Australia
- Headline: Advocates warn Tasmania’s emergency departments pose a serious risk to mentally ill patients
- Headline: Parliamentary inquiry to be held into Tasmania's hospital resourcing
- Headline: Govt poised for widespread exemptions on workers' comp
- Headline: Battle lines in aged care
- Headline: While the majority of patients die 'well', some do suffer in the end
- Headline: Princess Alexandra Hospital cladding too flammable, will be removed
- Headline: Blue Care Kingaroy nurses' future uncertain
- Headline: Upset hospital staff say they may strike over job recruitment at Northern Beaches Hospital
Brazil
Canada
- Headline: Unions mark P.E.I. Labour Day by calling for national drug plan
- Headline: Labour Day message calls for universal pharmacare
- Headline: Privatization of extramural nursing an 'erosion of care,' union says
- Headline: Former health ministers speak out on privatization of extramural nursing
- Headline: Vitalité moves to fix 'poisoned work environment' at Bathurst hospital
- Headline: Seven N.S. unions want legal right to fight Bill 148
- Headline: Several unions to seek status in appeal court case over imposed wage package
- Headline: Workers' compensation rates continue to climb for health care
- Titre: Infirmière et préposée agressées: pas un cas isolé, dit la FIQ
Headline: Nurse and clerk assaulted: not an isolated case, says the FIQ - Titre: Le Parti québécois propose un plan pour un meilleur accès aux soins de santé
Headline: The Parti Québécois proposes a plan for better access to health care - Titre: Parti Québécois : plan courageux pour un meilleur accès au soin de santé
Headline: Parti Québécois: courageous plan for better access to health care - Titre: Les risques d'agression du personnel infirmier sont réels, selon les syndicats
Headline: The risks of aggression toward nurses are real, according to unions - Titre: Manque de médecins à l'urgence de Cloutier-du Rivage
Headline: Lack of doctors in Cloutier-du-Rivage emergency room - Titre: Barrage francophone contre la privatisation en santé
Headline: French Barrage Against Health Privatization
Dominican Republic
Honduras
Ireland
- Headline: Surge in overcrowding sparks row between doctors and nurses
- Headline: INMO & Health Minister meet to discuss hospital overcrowding
- Headline: Hospital overcrowding reached record levels in August - INMO
- Headline: INMO: 3,054 people on trolleys at LUH this year, 1,387 at Sligo
- Headline: 8,000 people on hospital trolleys in August; up 27% on 2016 figures
- Headline: Surge in overcrowding sparks row between doctors and nurses
- Headline: Nurses told to ignore staffing directive
- Headline: No-show by 20 locum doctors fails to close emergency departments
- Headline: A&Es hit with doctor shortage as pay cuts spark wildcat strikes
- Headline: Updated: Study shows majority of nursing graduates stay in Ireland
Kenya
- Headline: Nurses to sue governors 'over laxity in ending strike'
- Headline: Strike ‘still on’ despite threat to sack nurses
- Headline: Nurses to meet tomorrow after court declares their strike illegal
- Headline: Striking nurses given ultimatum by Governors
New Zealand
Philippines
- Headline: 20k regular jobs in public health sector unfilled
- Headline: DOH 2018 budget ‘anti-poor’
- Headline: Health groups decry slash in gov’t hospitals budget in 2018
- Headline: Why our nurses are leaving
Portugal
- Manchete: Governo vai reunir com sindicato dos enfermeiros
Headline: Government will meet with nurses' union - Manchete: Enfermeiros de saúde materna avançam para a greve
Headline: Maternal health nurses advance to strike - Manchete: Médicos e enfermeiros à espera do Ministério
Headline: Doctors and nurses waiting on the Ministry - Manchete: Marcelo apela ao diálogo para resolver o conflito dos enfermeiros especialistas
Headline: Marcelo calls for dialogue to resolve the conflict over specialist nurses - Manchete: Enfermeiros e médicos mantêm greves em cima da mesa
Headline: Nurses and doctors keep strike on the table - Manchete: Marcelo entra na guerra dos enfermeiros defendendo “diálogo dentro da lei”
Headline: Marcelo enters the war of the nurses defending "dialogue within the law"
South Africa
- Headline: Death threats and intimidation as University of Fort Hare nursing students continue protest
- Headline: UFH nursing department could close for rest of year
- Headline: No end in sight to nurses' strike
- Headline: Fort Hare nursing students may be barred for the year
- Headline: Nurses shut down hospital
Spain
- Titular: Arrancan las protestas sindicales para reclamar la jornada laboral de 35 horas semanales en la Junta
Headline: The union protests begin, demanding a 35 hour workweek from the Board - Titular: Satse exige fortalecer la plantilla de enfermería y fisioterapia
Headline: Satse demands strengthening of the nursing and physiotherapy staff - Titular: Profesionales de enfermería exigen al sindicato médico que deje de confundir a los usuarios de Atención Primaria
Headline: Nursing professionals require the medical union to stop confusing primary care patients - Titular: SATSE defiende que no se obligue a los enfermeros a saber catalán para poder trabajar en las Islas Baleares
Headline: SATSE demands that nurses are not required to know Catalan to work in the Balearic Islands - Titular: El Satse denuncia hacinamiento de 40 trabajadores
Headline: The Satse denounces overcrowding for 40 workers - Titular: SATSE y SIMEAL denuncian que el Hospital de Huércal Overa aún mantiene cerradas 24 camas.
Headline: SATSE and SIMEAL report that the Hospital de Huércal Overa still has 24 beds closed
United Kingdom
- Headline: Thousands of nursing staff to protest outside parliament over pay
- Headline: Patients Say They Feel Unsafe Because There Aren't Enough Nurses
- Headline: Nurses 'ready to strike' over 1% public sector pay cap
- Headline: Public sector pay protest: Thousands of nurses descend on Parliament Square in scrap the cap campaign
- Headline: Nurses rally outside Parliament for Scrap the Cap protest over public sector pay
- Headline: Nurses threaten to strike if Theresa May doesn’t live up to her word on lifting public workers’ pay cap
United States
- Headline: Outrageous Assault on Utah Nurse Illustrates Dangers Nurses Face, Outlines Need for National Workplace Violence Prevention Standard
- Headline: Shasta Regional nurses vote to join union
- Headline: RN Response Network to deploy additional nurse volunteers to Houston
- Headline: Nurse’s arrest raises questions on evidence collection
- Headline: Nurse's Forceful Arrest Prompts Policy Changes
- Headline: Commentary: Nurses and caregivers need union organization
- Headline: Stalling health care helps no one
- Headline: A Utah nurse was arrested for refusing to do a forced blood draw. Could it happen here?
- Headline: Nurses Endure A Shocking Amount Of Violence On The Job
- Headline: SF nurses, patients’ families protest pending closure of hospital unit
- Headline: Nurses threaten strike against Tri-City
- Headline: Nurse Sobs 'Help Me' While Getting Arrested For Doing Her Job
- Headline: The Latest: Officer who arrested Utah nurse put on leave
- Headline: 2 officers placed on leave following Utah nurse confrontation
- Headline: Though elections are next year unions already revving up
- Headline: Saluting The Many On Labor Day Who Are Volunteering To Find And Help Harvey Victims
- Headline: A Democratic PAC Is Raising Money Off Of Single-Payer, But Not All Members Back Policy
- Headline: Bernie Sanders: single-payer is not a “litmus test”
- Headline: California unions on a political roll, but see threats on horizon
- Headline: Annual Labor Day picnic moves south, to Watsonville
- Headline: Early action starts to shape Minnesota governor's race
- Headline: Austin, Albert Lea nurses ratify Mayo offer on nurses facing layoffs
- Headline: Working for workers: About the folks who brought us the weekend
- Headline: Labor stands with communities to defend DACA