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Global Nurses United Press Clips
Nurses light candles at Rajiv Gandhi hospital in Kochi on May 12, 2020, as the world marks International Nurses Day, celebrated on the birthday of Florence Nightingale. Photo Credit: AFP
Global
- Headline: NZNO pays tribute to nurses who have died internationally
- Headline: USA/Global: Contesting Health and Workers' Rights
- Titular: Fotogalería: una celebración atípica del Día Internacional de la Enfermera
Headline: Photo gallery: an unusual celebration of International Nurses Day
Angola
Australia
- Headline: ANMF celebrates International Nurses Day 2020
- Headline: Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation calls for uncapped paid pandemic leave for its members
- Headline: Elective surgery ramps up, fourth day of zero new COVID-19 cases
- Headline: COVID-19 workers compensation loophole closed for nurses, paramedics and other essential workers
- Headline: NSW nurses angry over proposed pay freeze
- Headline: Coronavirus Queensland: Call for inquiry after Queensland aged care nurse tests positive to COVID-19
Brazil
- Headline: Brazilian nurses mourn colleagues killed on the COVID-19 frontline
- Manchete: Enfermeiros fazem ato em Brasília para homenagear colegas mortos pela Covid-19
Headline: Nurses perform in Brasilia to honor colleagues killed by Covid-19 - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros quer abrigo em hotéis para os profissionais durante a pandemia, em Mogi
Headline: Union of Nurses wants shelter in hotels for professionals during the pandemic in Mogi - Manchete: Pesquisa aponta que só 56% dos enfermeiros de SP recebem EPIs suficientes para troca e 11% têm sapatos adequados para trabalhar
Headline: Research shows that only 56% of nurses in SP receive enough PPE to change and 11% have adequate shoes to work - Manchete: Vigília em homenagem ao Dia dos Enfermeiros
Headline: Vigil in honor of Nurses Day
Canada
- Headline: Investigators look into catastrophic outbreak that infected all residents of TMR seniors' home, killing 70
- Headline: Lakeshore General Hospital dealing with another coronavirus outbreak
- Headline: Quebec's order of nurses urges province to give its membership time off
- Titre: Pandémie de COVID-19: les infirmières craignent d'autres arrêtés ministériels
Headline: COVID-19 Pandemic: Nurses Fear Other Ministerial Orders - Titre: La FIQ revendique un boni pour le personnel à temps partiel
Headline: The FIQ claims a bonus for part-time staff - Headline: First nurse in Ontario dies of COVID-19, province warns of new symptoms in children
- Headline: Registered nurse working at long-term care home in London, Ont., dies due to COVID-19
- Headline: ‘My heart is broken’: COVID-19 kills Ontario’s first nurse who worked at long-term care home
- Headline: First registered nurse to die of coronavirus in Canada remembered for love of animals, laughter
- Headline: Ontario’s nurses say coronavirus pandemic highlights need for sweeping reforms
- Headline: Nurse who worked at London care home is 1st RN to die of COVID-19 in Ontario
- Headline: ONTARIO NURSES’ ASSOCIATION WANTS PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO COVID-19 OUTBREAKS AT LONG-TERM CARE HOMES
- Headline: Recognizing The Work Of Nurses During National Nursing Week
- Headline: First nurse in Ontario dies of COVID-19, province warns of new symptoms in kids
- Headline: 'Tragedy for all of us': Ontario nurse working in long-term care home dies of COVID-19
- Headline: National Nursing Week: May 11-17
- Headline: Sask. nurses’ union worried over handling of COVID-19 case in Regina’s Pasqua Hospital
- Headline: Sask. Union of Nurses say a COVID-19 outbreak should’ve been declared at Pasqua Hospital
- Headline: Restrictions for some nurses up north causing confusion: SUN
- Headline: Rural residents 'shocked' ERs will still close; SUN faults testing in north
- Headline: Nursing on the frontline of a pandemic
- Headline: Nurses being told to reuse masks at Manitoba hospitals, says union
- Headline: Nurses appear to be getting PPE they need, for now, says union president
- Headline: Put yourself in their shoes: Let's thank the women on the front line of the pandemic
Colombia
- Headline: Colombian healthcare workers risking life with COVID-19 on International Nurses Day
- Titular: Enfermera colombiana que sobrevivió al coronavirus regresó al trabajo: "Mi mayor temor es volverme a contagiar"
Headline: Colombian nurse who survived the coronavirus returned to work: "My biggest fear is getting infected again"
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Enfermos con COVID están violando aislamiento domiciliario, según Sindicato de Enfermería
Headline: Patients with COVID are violating home isolation, according to the Nursing Union - Titular: Gremios denuncian cinco fallecidos y 130 enfermeras contagiadas con Covid-19
Headline: Unions denounce five deceased and 130 nurses infected with Covid-19 - Titular: Sinatrae denuncia 10 enfermeras contagiada de Covid-19 en hospital de Moca
Headline: Sinatrae denounces 10 nurses infected with Covid-19 in Moca hospital - Titular: Enfermeras conmemoran su día en medio de gran reto ante pandemia COVID-19
Headline: Nurses commemorate their day amid great challenges amidst the COVID-19 pandemic - Titular: Enfermeras se quejan de falta de condiciones para atender pacientes con COVID-19
Headline: Nurses complain of lack of conditions to care for patients with COVID-19
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
- Titular: Enfermeras, heroinas de hoy y siempre, piden no las discriminen
Headline: Nurses, heroines of today and always, ask not to be discriminated against - Titular: La enfermería es el brazo fundamental en la salud: ministra Alba Consuelo Flores
Headline: Nursing is the fundamental arm in health: Minister Alba Consuelo Flores - Titular: Enfermeras de Honduras festejan su día desprotegidas por el gobierno
Headline: Honduran nurses celebrate their day unprotected by the government - Titular: Habilitan albergue para personal de salud que sufre discriminacion por COVID-19
Headline: Provide a shelter for health personnel who suffer discrimination due to COVID-19 - Titular: “No somos leprosos”, dice presidente de ANEEAH quien pide no más estigmatización
Headline: "We are not lepers," says ANEEAH president who calls for no more stigmatization - Titular: En medio del covid-19 y una ola de discriminación, se conmemora el Día Internacional de la Enfermera
Headline: Amid covid-19 and a wave of discrimination, International Nurses Day is commemorated - Titular: Fighting COVID-19 and discrimination, commemorating International Nursing Day
Headline: Luchando contra el COVID-19 y la discriminación, conmemoran el Día Internacional de la Enfermería
India
- Headline: Nurses Unite to Demand Universal Public Health
- Headline: Kerala nurses express discontent on Nurses’ Day
- Headline: We Don’t Need Empty Praise: Nurses’ Unions Demand Better Protection, Rights
- Headline: COVID-19: Returning migrant workers from Bihar vow never to step out again
- Headline: Air India office sealed after employee tests positive for COVID-19
Ireland
- Headline: We can never forget their heroic efforts: President Higgins leads tributes on International Nurses Day
- Headline: Health service facing 'severe' staffing pressure, exacerbated by pandemic - INMO
- Headline: Government must rethink frontline childcare scheme, INMO says
- Headline: INMO warns against return to overcrowding in University Hospital Limerick
- Headline: Nursing union warns of potential shortfall of 1,500 personnel
- Headline: INMO: Some nurses paying €110 per day for childcare as govt scheme scrapped
Italy
- Titolo: Il 2020 è l'anno degli infermieri: veglia online per i colleghi morti e richiesta di protezioni adeguate
Headline: 2020 is the year of the nurse: online vigil for colleagues who have died and a request for adequate protection - Titolo: Giornata internazionale dell’ infermiere: storie di uomini e donne in prima linea
Headline: International Nurses Day: stories of men and women on the front lines - Titolo: Giornata mondiale infermieri: Italia all’Onu si unisce al “grazie” ai “santi della porta accanto”
Headline: World Nurses Day: Italy at the UN joins the "thank you" to the "saints next door" - Titolo: Sanità: Nursind aderisce a veglia online internazionale per Giornata infermieri
Headline: Healthcare: Nursind joins international online vigil for Nursing Day - Titolo: Coronavirus, Nursind aderisce a veglia online per Giornata infermieri
Headline: Coronavirus, Nursind joins online vigil for Nurses Day - Titolo: Nursind, veglia online internazionale per Giornata infermieri (VIDEO
Headline: Nursind, international online vigil for Nurses' Day (VIDEO) - Titolo: Giornata dell'Infermiere, Nursind Toscana ricorda i colleghi scomparsi per Covid-19
Headline: Nurse's Day, Nursind Toscana remembers their missing colleagues due to Covid-19
Kenya
- Headline: KNUN Urges Counties To Release Salaries For Nurses
- Headline: Meru nurse forced to wear garbage bag as PPE
Mexico
New Zealand
- Headline: Covid 19 coronavirus: Jacinda Ardern announces funeral review, 'Jobs Budget'
- Headline: Serious lessons from Waitakere Hospital COVID-19 report
- Headline: Two Waitakere Hospital nurses testing positive for COVID-19 'not acceptable' - nurses union
- Headline: Nurses added to proposed law which imposes minimum prison sentences for assaults against healthcare workers
- Headline: Nurses infected with Covid-19: Union calls for external investigation after review's findings
Paraguay
- Titular: Enfermeras conmemoraron su día
Headline: Nurses commemorated their day - Titular: Recordaran el Dia Internacional de la Enfermeria con un minute de silencio
Headline: International Nursing Day remembered with a minute of silence - Titular: Día de la Enfermera: Piden insumos de protección y mejor remuneración
Headline: Nurse's Day: They ask for protective equipment and better pay - Titular: En Encarnacion exigen atuendos de proteccion
Headline: Demand for protective clothing in Encarnacion - Titular: Funcionarios del Hospital Regional de Encarnacion exigen equipos de bioseguridad
Headline: Officials of the Encarnacion Regional Hospital demand biosecurity teams - Titular: Unas 4.000 enfermeras piden oportunidad laboral en su día
Headline: About 4,000 nurses ask for a job opportunity on their day
Philippines
- Headline: Study reveals poor protection for health workers amid fight vs. COVID-19
- Headline: Nurses’ group demands higher wages
- Headline: 12-hour shifts make nurses more vulnerable to COVID-19
Portugal
- Manchete: Três enfermeiros e 100 pares de sapatos “manifestam-se” em Braga pela valorização da carreira
Headline: Three nurses and 100 pairs of shoes “manifest themselves” in Braga due to the appreciation of their careers - Manchete: Protesto simbólico dos enfermeiros em Braga pela valorização da carreira
Headline: Symbolic protest by nurses in Braga for the appreciation of their work - Manchete: Braga. Três enfermeiros e 100 pares de sapatos “manifestam-se” pela valorização da carreira
Headline: Braga. Three nurses and 100 pairs of shoes “speak up” for their career enhancement - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros critica ministra e elogia secretário de Estado da Saúde
Headline: Union of Nurses criticizes minister and praises Secretary of State for Health
South Africa
- Headline: Nursing conditions are 'appalling' - unions
- Headline: WATCH | Tygerberg Hospital staff protest over PPE, transport on International Nurses Day
- Headline: DENOSA CALLS FOR SPECIAL ALLOWANCE FOR NURSES, OTHER FRONT LINE WORKERS
- Headline: Nursing union unhappy with decision to re-open KZN Netcare hospitals following Covid-19 outbreaks
- Headline: International Nurses Day: We have a lot of challenges - Denosa
- Headline: DENOSA: COVID-19 PROVED GOVT CAN IMPROVE WORKING CONDITIONS
Spain
- Titular: El sindicato de Enfermería reclama incorporar 15.500 profesionales en España
Headline: The Nursing union claims to incorporate 15,500 professionals in Spain - Titular: SATSE reclama que, tras la pandemia, se invierta más en enfermeras y enfermeros
Headline: SATSE demands that, after the pandemic, more investment be made in nurses - Titular: Las enfermeras exigen el reconocimiento del covid-19 como enfermedad profesional
Headline: Nurses demand recognition of covid-19 as an occupational disease - Titular: SATSE Navarra denuncia al SNS-O por obligar a las enfermeras de Atención Primaria a usar su coche y ropa particular para atender a pacientes con riesgo COVID en sus domicilios
Headline: SATSE Navarra denounces the SNS-O for forcing Primary Care nurses to use their car and private clothing to attend to patients with COVID risk in their homes - Titular: Satse Salamanca tilda de «indignante e intolerable» la situación de la enfermería tras una nueva retirada de mascarillas
Headline: Satse Salamanca describes the situation of the infirmary as "outrageous and intolerable" after a new mask removal
United Kingdom
- Headline: Coronavirus: Royal Berkshire Hospital nurse Julie Edward dies
- Headline: Watch: New RCN video ‘showcases professionalism’ of nurses during crisis
- Headline: Health unions publish blueprint for safe opening up of NHS as lockdown eases
- Headline: RCN condemns sickness and death data ‘failure’
- Headline: The story of black nurses in the UK didn't start with Windrush
- Headline: RCN: Fix PPE and testing before relaxing lockdown further
United States
- Headline: On May Day, nurses, other workers protest safety conditions during coronavirus pandemic
- Headline: “Similar to Times of War”: The Staggering Toll of COVID-19 on Filipino Health Care Workers
- Headline: California Hospitals Begin Sterilizing Previously Worn N95 Masks for Reuse, but Nurses Call Them Unsafe
- Headline: One thing the pandemic hasn’t stopped: Aggressive medical-debt collection
- Headline: May Day protesters in the US call for economic help
- Headline: Nurses in Modesto, Turlock join national protest over protective coronavirus gear
- Headline: UCSF health care workers demand more personal protective equipment
- Headline: Coronavirus: Some Essential Workers Expected To Strike In Mass May Day Protest
- Headline: Nurses Left Vulnerable To COVID-19: 'We're Not Martyrs Sacrificing Our Lives'
- Headline: ‘Nurses have been betrayed. We are not going to let this happen again.’
- Headline: KC area nurses protest
- Headline: National Nurses Week: Freebies and discounts for health care workers May 6 -12
- Headline: Social Distancing Made May Day Protests Look A Lot Different This Year
- Headline: Nationally, Nurses Protest, Demanding Adequate PPE for Treating COVID-19 Patients
- Headline: Houston nurses working through cornavirus pandemic
- Headline: As Texas reopens, El Paso mayor says city not yet 'out of the woods' with COVID-19
- Headline: Coronavirus Update: Most Enlistees Not Eligible To Join California Health Corps
- Headline: Essential Workers Plan May Day Strikes; Others Demand End To COVID-19 Lockdowns
- Headline: El Paso nurses held protest arguing they don't have enough personal protection equipment
- Headline: Augusta VA nurses protest reusing N95 masks, pay
- Headline: Work safety strike, virus lockdown protest set for May Day
- Headline: Workers Day 2020: The mirror of citizen unrest over the government's terrible handling of the COVID-19 crisis
- Headline: Coronavirus Florida: Nurses slam HCA over lack of protective gear
- Headline: Protesters hit the streets as mask regulations take effect
- Headline: Dueling Protests Besiege the Nation: Nurses and Retail Workers vs. Anti-Lockdown Activists
- Headline: EP Fired for Raising Safety Concerns about PPE
- Headline: More Testing Needed In Southeast San Diego
- Headline: Hospitals losing revenue due to COVID-19
- Headline: California Hospitals Begin Sterilizing Previously Worn N95 Masks for Reuse, but Nurses Call Them Unsafe
- Headline: Issues surrounding pandemic responses prevail in May Day protests around LA
- Headline: GOP Senate to hold stimulus hostage; demands coronavirus lawsuit immunity for bosses
- Headline: When Will a Second Wave of Coronavirus Hit the U.S.? Here’s What You Can Do to Prepare
- Headline: Charlotte County nurse who contracted COVID-19 claims hospital failed to protect
- Headline: Corpus Christi nurses take part in ‘May Day’
- Headline: New York City's subway, Supreme Court case, Nurses Week: 5 things to know Wednesday
- Headline: Column: In appreciation of good care on National Nurses Day
- Headline: Nurses Call on Pelosi to Enact Remote Voting So House Can Deliver Urgent Covid-19 Relief
- Headline: National Nurses Day 2020: Inspiring Quotes On The Unsung Heroes
- Headline: Freebies and Discounts for Nurses During National Nurses Week
- Headline: Another Look at the VA, in the Midst of a Pandemic
- Headline: Nurses Left Vulnerable To COVID-19: 'We're Not Martyrs Sacrificing Our Lives'
- Headline: Charlotte County nurses protest; demand more protective equipment
- Headline: NURSES PROTEST AT WHITE HOUSE
- Headline: Nurses from National Nurses United protest for PPE in front of the White House with 88 pairs of shoes representing each nurse who has died from coronavirus.
- Headline: A Day in the Life of a Nurse During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Headline: National Nurses United rally at White House for better protection; honor nurses who have died from COVID-19
- Headline: GIANT HOSPITAL CORPORATION TAKES ADVANTAGE OF CORONAVIRUS TO FIGHT NURSES’ UNION DRIVE
- Headline: Wanted: Health care workers. Wait! Never mind…
- Headline: A Day in the Life of an ER Nurse During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Headline: Nurses Unite For ‘May Day’ Call To Action
- Headline: Commentary: Celebrate National Nurses Week by protecting these COVID heroes
- Headline: Nurses protest outside White House to honor fallen nurses at front lines of pandemic
- Headline: Nurses Rally At White House To Challenge Administration's Response To Coronavirus
- Headline: Nurses demonstrate outside White House to honor those who died of coronavirus
- Headline: Nurses hold protest at White House to honor those who died of coronavirus
- Headline: Nurses week amid the coronavirus: Protest at White House honors death of nearly 100 nurses
- Headline: Row Upon Row of Empty Shoes Outside Trump White House as Nurses Honor Covid-19's Frontline Victims
- Headline: Coronavirus update: U.S. death toll tops 74,000, as Trump administration shelves ‘too cautious’ CDC guide to reopening
- Headline: Gainesville nurse dies after contracting COVID-19
- Headline: Family of Research nurse who died from COVID-19 files claim for death benefits
- Headline: Nigerian immigrant working as CNA dies of COVID-19 months before becoming nurse, citizen
- Headline: 'The ultimate sacrifice': Nurse dies after rushing to save coronavirus patient's life
- Headline: Local VA nurses say lack of provided masks, gloves make hospital conditions unsafe
- Headline: Nurses hold rally for better protective equipment at Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center
- Headline: Tampa Bay nurse: 'We need more masks. We need more gowns. We need more face shields.'
- Headline: Coronavirus: Mississippi hospitals facing potential bed shortages as cases increase
- Headline: ‘We should be fighting COVID and not fighting for personal protection’: Local nurses join national gatherings to demand better protection against COVID-19
- Headline: The Coronavirus Is Hitting These Nurses Especially Hard
- Headline: On Mother's Day, Virus Means More Sacrifices Than Ever For Nurses
- Headline: THE FIRST 100: COVID-19 Took Black Lives First. It Didn’t Have To.
- Headline: A Fifth Of California's Nurses Are Filipino. Their Burden Of The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Fast Emerging
- Headline: Hospital Layoffs Rising in California as Few Elective Procedures Are Performed
- Headline: Most volunteers not eligible to join California Health Corps
- Headline: Nurses protest unsafe working conditions at Las Palmas Medical Center
- Headline: “They Are Expendable”: Who’s Paying to Reopen Business?
- Headline: Q&A: Nurses demand adequate supply of PPE to combat COVID-19
- Headline: Editorial: Praising nurses in words nice — now, let’s protect them
- Headline: Vigil at White House Honors 88 Who Died from “Trump’s Abhorrent Failure to Protect Nurses”
- Headline: Watch: Nurses Honor Coronavirus Victims with Rows of Empty Shoes
- Headline: Whistleblower Complaint Shines Spotlight On Dysfunction That Paralyzed HHS At Start Of Pandemic
- Headline: Unions, Dems resist GOP attempt to starve states and localities
- Headline: As Hospitals Lose Revenue, More Than A Million Health Care Workers Lose Jobs
- Headline: COVID-19 deaths among nurses: U.S. 91, Canada 0. Why?
- Headline: Stay home, wash hands and other ways to mark International Nurses Day
- Headline: Dr. Fauci's testimony, Trump's finances, three states' elections: 5 things to know Tuesday
- Headline: As Trump urges reopening, thousands getting sick on the job
- Headline: Nurses discuss life on the frontlines; urge residents to wear masks
- Headline: This Chicago hospital shows why African Americans are suffering more from COVID-19
- Headline: Stop calling nurses heroes — protect our lives instead, says the leader of America's largest nurses union
- Headline: 31,000 and counting
- Headline: Covid in the cafeteria: hospitals leave workers in the dark over exposures
- Headline: As Trump urges reopening, thousands getting sick on the job
- Headline: Family files claim in Kansas City nurse's death from coronavirus
- Headline: Missouri family files claim in nurse’s death from virus
- Headline: UCI Nurses Hold Candlelight Vigil And Demand Access To Protective Gear Amidst Coronavirus Pandemic
- Headline: Death reports show coronavirus hit San Jose’s poor, Latino neighborhoods hardest
- Headline: CALIFORNIA NURSES PROTEST LAYOFFS, CALL FOR RESIGNATION OF PALOMAR HEALTH CEO
- Headline: Nurses Protest San Jose Regional Medical Center’s Planned Closure of Labor, Delivery Unit
- Headline: Health care workers protest Palomar Health layoffs
- Headline: Health Care Workers to Protest Palomar Health’s Layoffs of Hundreds of Workers
- Headline: Nurses Fight for Personal Protective Equipment and Sane COVID-19 Public Health Policies
- Headline: Pandemic put pause on Mission’s troubles
- Headline: Hospital Workers Complain of Minimal Disclosure After COVID Exposures
- Headline: UK Railroad Worker Dies of COVID-19 After Being Spat on at Work; Union Says Death 'Wasn't Inevitable'
- Headline: The Congressional Progressive Caucus wants guaranteed income in stimulus bill
- Headline: Workplace Worries Mount as US Tracks New COVID-19 Cases
- Headline: When are elected officials going to get serious? Unions condemn the continued mask shortage
- Headline: Minnesota Nurses Association president makes urgent call for more personal protective equipment for nurses
- Headline: Trump’s “Reopening” Is a Red Herring
- Headline: Nurses battling virus on front lines in understaffed hospitals: A brave nurse speaks out
- Headline: Some El Paso nurses demand improved COVID19 safety standards
- Headline: Nurses union continues to air concerns over decontaminated N95 masks
- Headline: Maine front-line workers highlight priorities for next federal stimulus bill
- Headline: What coronavirus is doing to stressed US health workers – and why it will be felt for years
- Headline: Hospital workers complain of minimal disclosure after COVID-19 exposures
- Headline: Nurses at Charlie Norwood VA demand apology after accusations of stealing a mask
- Headline: Region’s hospitals are now ready to handle an expected covid-19 surge — on one condition
- Headline: Minnesota Nurses Association has 'reservations' over lifting of Stay at Home
- Headline: Nurses union concerned as Minnesota prepares to lift ‘Stay at Home’ order
- Headline: Nurses plan march to Capitol to demand more access to PPE
- Headline: Nurses to March for PPE and Transparency
- Headline: Minnesota Nurses Association plans to march on the State Capitol to demand safety for nurses