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International Nurse News Round-Up
Australia: Victorian Nurses walk off the job at Bupa
Australia
- Headline: Victorian Nurses walk off the job at Bupa
- Headline: Nine Bupa nursing homes across Victoria set to be hit with stop work action
- Headline: Union federal secretary Lee Thomas quits post for lawyer post
- Headline: Nursing home to hospital transfers are booming
- Headline: Bupa Bendigo workers walk off the job
- Headline: Wilfred Lopes nurses: we won’t budge on ban
- Headline: Judge blasts delays at Wilfred Lopes
- Headline: Victorian Nurses walk off the job at Bupa
- Headline: Wollongong's birthing suites 'dirty, outdated and understaffed'
- Headline: Shellharbour Hospital fight hits the streets
Brazil
Canada
- Titre: Coalition contre les compressions en santé en A.-T. : « Je n'ai pas vu grand libéraux là », dit Luc Blanchette
Headline: Coalition Against Health Cuts in A.-T. : "I have not seen big liberals there," says Luc Blanchette - Headline: Debbie Forward acclaimed Registered Nurses’ Union president for ninth term
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Enfermeras inician paro de 72 horas en hospital infantil de Santiago
Headline: Nurses start a 72-hour strike at a children's hospital in Santiago - Titular: Enfermeras de Santiago inician paro en hospital infantil Arturo Grullón
Headline: Santiago nurses start strike in children's hospital Arturo Grullón - Titular: Enfermeras inician paro de 72 horas en hospital infantil
Headline: Nurses start 72-hour strike at a children's hospital - Titular: Catalogan de inoportuna convocatoria a huelga por el Colegio Médico
Headline: Criticism over untimely call for strike by the Medical College - Titular: SINATRAE inicia paralización en hospital infantil por 72 horas
Headline: SINATRAE starts paralyzing children's hospital for 72 hours - Titular: Ven insuficiente partida Salud
Headline: The health budget is insufficient, they say - Titular: Sinatrae y Fedosalud continúan huelga en Santiago y Puerto Plata
Headline: Sinatrae and Fedosalud continue strike in Santiago and Puerto Plata
Guatemala
Ireland
- Headline: #Budget18 reaction: Figures too low and too little too late: Focus Ireland
- Headline: Almost 550 people on trolleys waiting for hospital bed - INMO
- Headline: Nurse Union blasts Budget 2018’s ’empty promise’ of 1800 new HSE frontline staff
- Headline: Waiting list for a bed in Letterkenny hospital falls again
- Headline: Tackling crises will eat up additional funding
- Headline: CUH is second most overcrowded hospital
- Headline: GPs Threaten Action Over Government’s ‘Failure’ To Address Health Crisis
Kenya
- Headline: Nurses say SRC statement on pay not in good faith
- Headline: Tharaka-Nithi nurses resume work after pact with Muthomi Njuki
- Headline: Kisumu County to hire 210 as nurses’ strike bites on
- Headline: Nurses’ officials appeal ruling to escape six-month jail term
Mexico
- Titular: “Déficit” de enfermeras en hospital del puerto
Headline: “Deficit" of nurses at port hospital - Titular: Al Hospital Regional de Veracruz le urgen 350 enfermeras
Headline: The Regional Hospital of Veracruz calls for 350 additional nurses
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
- Manchete: Sindicatos dos enfermeiros voltam a reunir-se com a tutela na sexta-feira
Headline: Nurses' unions return to negotiate with government on Friday - Manchete: Enfermeiros admitem chegar a acordo com Governo e desmarcar greve
Headline: Nurses admit to reaching agreement with Government and clear strike - Manchete: Ministro diz querer evitar greve dos enfermeiros
Headline: Minister says he wants to avoid nurses' strike
Spain
- Titular: El sindicato SATSE no quiere abordar las 35 horas semanales en la mesa sectorial hasta que no sea legal
Headline: The SATSE union does not want to bargain for a 35 hour workweek at the bargaining table until it is made law - Titular: Satse alerta de "falta" de avances y de personal en la categoría de enfermera especialista en salud mental en Andalucía
Headline: Satse warns of "lack" of advances and staff in the nurse specialist category of mental health in Andalusia - Titular: SATSE critica la falta de avances para la implantación en el SAS de la Enfermera Especialista en Salud Mental
Headline: SATSE criticizes the lack of progress for the implantation in the SAS of the Nurse Specialist in Mental Health - Titular: Teresa Galindo Rubio, al frente del Sindicato de Enfermería de Madrid
Headline: Teresa Galindo Rubio, in charge of the Union of Nursing of Madrid - Titular: Satse denuncia que se abren tres quirófanos en el Hospital de El Bierzo (León) sin aumentar la plantilla de enfermería
Headline: Satse denounces that three operating rooms are opened in the Hospital of El Bierzo (León) without increasing the nursing staff - Titular: Satse reclama la renovación de la Unidad de Reanimación de Adultos del Reina Sofía
Headline: Satse demands the renewal of the Reanimación Unit of Adults in Reina Sofía - Titular: Satse critica la "marcha atrás" de las CCAA a la hora de fijar criterios comunes en sus OPE sanitarias
Headline: Satse criticizes the "backtrack" of the CCAA when setting common criteria in their health OPE - Titular: Satse alerta del déficit de personal ante la "saturación" de urgencias del Hospital de Écija
Headline: Satse voices concern over the lack of personnel before the "overcrowding" of the ER at the Hospital of Écija - Titular: Enfermería organiza un curso de autodefensa contra agresiones a sanitarios
Headline: Nursing organizes a self-defense course against assaults on health workers - Titular: Satse impugna el Decreto que regula residencias de ancianos
Headline: Satse challenges the Decree that regulates nursing homes - Titular: Un millar de contrataciones para paliar el déficit de personal en las residencias de mayores
Headline: One thousand new hires needed to mitigate staff shortages in nursing homes - Titular: Satse denuncia que el SMS no tiene intención de pagar la carrera profesional
Headline: Satse denounces that SMS has no intention of paying the professional salary increases
United Kingdom
- Headline: It’s time for fair pay for the heroes in our hospitals
- Headline: Nursing numbers drop by more than 1,000 in one year
- Headline: Brexit blamed as nursing numbers fall for first time in years
- Headline: ‘Worrying’ decline in number of NHS nurses sparks urgent call for workforce strategy
- Headline: Overseas nursing recruitment campaign costs £566k - but secures only 12 new posts for understaffed health service
- Headline: £566,000 overseas recruitment campaign yields just 12 nurses
- Headline: Hunt scraps 1% pay cap for nurses
- Headline: Unison threatens strike action over health service pay
United States
- Headline: Filling Gaps Left By Trump, Nurses and Labor Unions Join Puerto Rico Relief Efforts
- Headline: Nurses on the ground warn of dire conditions in Puerto Rico
- Headline: Registered Nurses Say Patient Safety Sparks Today's UCI Medical Center Rally
- Headline: On-the-Ground Reports Destroy Trump's Sunny Portrayal of Puerto Rico Recovery
- Headline: St. Joseph Hospital nurse in Puerto Rico calls for public to aid in relief efforts
- Headline: Eureka nurse in Puerto Rico: ‘There is literally no running water. Food is being rationed.’
- Headline: Everything that's been reported about deaths in Puerto Rico is at odds with the official count
- Headline: (VIDEO) Local Nurse Who Flew to Puerto Rico for Humanitarian Relief Mission Says Riots Ensued After FEMA Refused to Release Air-Dropped Supplies
- Headline: Nurses Lend a Hand in Puerto Rico
- Headline: Local nurse heads to Puerto Rico to help hurricane victims
- Headline: St. Joseph Hospital nurse in Puerto Rico calls for aid
- Headline: At least 11 dead in Northern California fires and blocks of homes destroyed in Santa Rosa
- Headline: Healthy California’s single-payer plan could deliver coverage to every Californian for about $331 billion, vs. the $370 billion the state currently spends.
- Headline: California wildfires threaten wine and tourism industry
- Headline: At least 11 dead in Northern California fires and blocks of homes destroyed in Santa Rosa
- Headline: Nurses file complaint over Allina staffing
- Headline: Essentia requiring flu shots for employees, but some question policy
- Headline: Four DFL governor candidates make pitch in Cloquet
- Headline: UMC responds to nurses union's 'no-confidence' vote in its leadership
- Headline: D.C. Nurses Gives United Medical Center a Thumbs Down
- Headline: United Medical Center highlights improvement efforts following nurses union's 'no confidence' vote
- Headline: A year after strike, Allina nurses seek mediation for new contract
- Headline: Allina nurses seek mediator to settle unresolved strike issues
- Headline: Allina nurses seek federal mediator 1 year after ending strike
- Headline: Notes: Sick Leave Poll, Endorsements and Transitions
- Headline: Issue 2 forum helps Ohioans decide
- Headline: Why Do Republicans (and Some Democrats) Vilify Single Payer?
- Headline: Labor for Our Revolution
- Headline: Here’s the road map for how a progressive can defeat Dianne Feinstein
- Headline: Leftists Are Preparing to Push Dianne Feinstein Out of the Senate
- Headline: National Nurses United endorse repeat challenger to GOP Rep. Steve Knight
- Headline: Registered Nurses Say Patient Safety Sparks Today's UCI Medical Center Rally
- Headline: Sources say California Senate leader to challenge Sen. Dianne Feinstein
- Headline: Trump's Obamacare Sabotage Burdens the Sickest
- Headline: 2 progressives may compete in effort to unseat Dianne Feinstein
- Headline: Would California welcome a Trump visit to see fire damage?