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Argentina
Australia
- 'A slap in the face': Teachers, nurses react to wage freeze for NSW public servants
- Government freezes pending pay rise for nurses
- Mystery surrounds death of Sydney nurse on shift in Liverpool Hospital mental health unit
- Shattered family seeks answers after nurse died at work
Brazil
- 'Situação preocupante', diz sindicato de enfermeiros sobre Hospital de Base do DF, referência em casos de coronavírus
'Worrying situation' says nurses’ union about Hospital de Base do DF, referring to coronavirus cases - TRT determina afastamento enfermeiros de grupo de risco da Covid-19 em Maceió
'TRT determines nurses who are part of groups at risk of Covid-19 should be removed in Maceió - Manchete: Após denúncias de falta de equipamentos, hospital de campanha do Mané Garrincha passa por vistoria
'After complaints over lack of equipment, Mané Garrincha field hospital undergoes inspection - Descaso de governos leva a recorde de mortes de profissionais de saúde
'Failure of governments leads to record deaths of health professionals - Enfermeira com atuação em Sumaré morre com coronavírus em Indaiatuba
'Nurse working in Sumaré dies with coronavirus in Indaiatuba
Canada
- Quebec Health Care Workers Are 'Dead Tired' & Lying On The Ground In Protest
- La FIQ rejette en bloc les offres du gouvernement Legault
FIQ rejects the Legault government's offers - Des infirmières manifestent devant l'Hôpital de Rimouski
Nurses demonstrate outside Rimouski Hospital - Les infirmières «mortes de fatigue»
Nurses "dead of fatigue" - CHSLD: «J’aurais la tête dans le micro-ondes, ce serait à peu près pareil»
CHSLD: "If I had my head in the microwave, it would be more or less the same" - Pas touche à nos vacances, préviennent des infirmières « mortes de fatigue » en Outaouais
Do not touch our holidays, warn nurses "dead of fatigue" in Outaouais - Hôpital régional de Rimouski: le syndicat inquiet
Rimouski Regional Hospital: the union is worried - COVID-19 : un CHSLD de 400 résidents menacé en Montérégie
COVID-19: a CHSLD of 400 residents threatened in Montérégie - Des garanties pour les infirmières
Guarantees for nurses - Nurse left homeless by COVID-19 anxiety now working the front lines of the pandemic
- We know what's wrong with long-term care in Canada -- we need politicians with the courage to fix it, not an inquiry
- The latest on the coronavirus outbreak for May 28
- Front-line workers still waiting for premium pay promised by province weeks ago
- ONTARIO NURSES’ ASSOCIATION CALLS FOR DEMONSTRATED COMMITMENT FROM PROVINCE TO FIX LONG-TERM CARE
- Ontario nurses urging investigation into long-term care facilities remain independent
- Ontario long-term care homes in scathing report could face charges, says Ford
- 1 new case of COVID-19 at Hamilton General Hospital as outbreak continues
- COVID-19: Nurses union dropped from committee allocating protective wear regionally
- Alberta health-care layoffs postponed again amid COVID-19 pandemic
- New principles guarantee Saskatchewan health-care workers access to appropriate PPE
- Saskatoon mom concerned Sask. Health Authority using hand sanitizer that's unsafe for pregnant, nursing people
- Sask. woman unable to see husband in hospital after severe crash
- Registered nurse population in Manitoba drops: report
- Calls for Northwood inquiry heightened after concerns raised at Ontario, Quebec care homes
- Debbie Forward pleased with slow pace of lifting restrictions, citing PPE shortage
Dominican Republic
Guatemala
- Diez médicos y enfermeras dan positivo de coronavirus en hospital del IGSS de zona 9
Ten doctors and nurses test positive for coronavirus in IGSS zone 9 hospital - Guatemala registra récord de casos de coronavirus con 311 positivos; suma 55 fallecidos
Guatemala registers a record of coronavirus cases with 311 positives; total 55 deceased
Honduras
India
- More patients than beds in Mumbai as India faces surge in virus cases
- 'Hire nurses from Maharashtra': United Nurses Association writes to CM
- With highest one-day spike of 97, Maharashtra COVID-19 death toll rises to 1,792
- Nurse working at private hospital in Delhi dies due to COVID-19
- Gendering The Pandemic: Where Are The Womxn Policymakers?
- COVID-19 positive young nurse tries to suicide
- RML hospital Dean tests positive for COVID-19
Ireland
- Concern as overcrowding returns to Ireland's emergency departments
- All nursing graduates to be guaranteed jobs amid Covid-19 crisis
- Coronavirus: INMO Calls for Inquiry into Health Worker Infections
- More people waiting for beds at Cork hospitals than in entire eastern area
- Hospital vacant bed numbers drop alongside Covid-19 cases
Italy
- PIEMONTE – Nursind presenta all’Assessorato alla Sanità la proposta per destinare il fondo premialità
PIEDMONT - Nursind proposes an award fund to the Health Department - Nursind su ripartizione fondi sanità: “Premiare chi ha avuto contatto diretto coi pazienti covid”
Nursind on the distribution of healthcare funds: "Reward those who have had direct contact with covid patients" - Asl Toscana nord ovest al Nursind: “Straordinari regolarmente liquidati, attività aggiuntiva a giugno”
Asl Toscana northwest to Nursind: "Overtime paid regularly, additional activity in June" - Covid-19. NurSind Toscana: mercoledì 3 giugno il flashmob degli infermieri In piazza Duomo. 40 paia di scarpe per non dimenticare
COVID-19. NurSind Toscana: Wednesday 3 June the nurses' flashmob in Piazza Duomo. 40 pairs of shoes not to forget" - Covid-19, riconoscimento regionale per operatori sanitari: NurSind Puglia aderisce all'accordo
Covid-19, regional recognition for health workers: NurSind Puglia adheres to the agreement - Nursind: infermieri pronti alla piazza e a sciopero nazionale
Nursind: nurses ready for the square and for a national strike
New Zealand
Peru
- Enfermeras mayores de 60 años volverán a trabajar
Nurses over 60 will return to work - Enfermeros mayores de 60 años temen retornar a hospitales por riesgo a contagiarse de COVID-19
Nurses over 60 fear returning to hospitals due to risk of getting COVID-19 - Coronavirus.- Perú supera los 135.000 casos mientras los enfermeros mayores de 60 años temen volver al trabajo
Coronavirus.- Peru exceeds 135,000 cases while nurses over 60 fear returning to work
Philippines
- Health workers blast gov’t for passing burden of COVID-19 testing to private sector
- ‘Quarantine eased in June’
- RITM, the missing piece in the Philippines’ mass testing capacity vs. COVID-19
- Testing capacity drops to 6k daily as cases top 15k
- Palace claims PH meets goal of 30,000 daily testing capacity
Portugal
- Sindicato dos Enfermeiros vai queixar-se do Estado à Organização Internacional do Trabalho
Nurses’ Union will complain from the State to the International Labor Organization - Sindicato exige contratos definitivos para enfermeiros precários da Guarda
Union demands definitive contracts for precarious nurses in Guarda - O SINDICATO DOS ENFERMEIROS PORTUGUESES TEM RECEBIDO QUEIXAS POR FALTA DE EQUIPAMENTO DE PROTEÇÃO INDIVIDUAL NA ULS DA GUARDA
THE UNION OF PORTUGUESE NURSES HAS RECEIVED COMPLAINTS OVER LACK OF PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AT ULS DA GUARDA - Covid-19 – Distrito de Beja sem casos positivos nos profissionais de enfermagem
Covid-19 - Beja District without positive cases among nursing professionals
South Africa
- Nurses threaten to protest over non-payment of uniform allowances
- Covid infections among health workers increasing in Eastern Cape
- Gauteng nurses say they did not take an oath to die
South Korea
Spain
- Satse exige la contratación de enfermeras para reforzar la atención primaria en Ávila
Satse demands the hiring of nurses to reinforce primary care in Ávila - SATSE exige medidas para que las enfermeras de Atención Especializada "no sean las grandes olvidadas"
SATSE demands measures so that Specialized Care nurses "are not forgotten heroes" - Satse pide a Sacyl que se posibiliten medidas de conciliación laboral y familiar para los enfermeros
Satse demands Sacyl make work and family reconciliation measures possible for nurses - SATSE Castilla-La Mancha exige más enfermeras en las UCIs para poder atender mejor a los pacientes
SATSE Castilla-La Mancha demands more nurses in ICUs to better serve patients - Satse critica el plan del SAS para el verano por "cierre" de centros de salud y "nula" cobertura del personal
Satse criticizes the SAS plan for the summer "closure" of health centers and "no" coverage of staff - SATSE reclama que por cada dos pacientes debería haber una enfermera en UCI
SATSE demands that for every two patients there should be a nurse in the ICU
United Kingdom
- BAME nursing staff 'less protected' amid issues around PPE, survey finds
- Coronavirus: BAME nursing staff ‘find it harder to access PPE’ than white counterparts
- Labour demands action on personal protective equipment as survey reveals BAME staff more likely to face shortages
- Why shut nurses out of decision-making?
- Trusts told to pay overtime to nurses of all levels during crisis
- How should the role of the nurse change in response to Covid-19?
- Health unions reach agreement with NHS for proper staff pay during Covid
United States
- Markowitz: HCA jeopardizing mothers, babies with planned closure at Regional Medical Center
- The Trump administration should rank its patients and healthcare workers first
- The living death: Memorial Day in America
- MCCONNELL IS PUSHING ONE COVID-19 ‘CURE’ AMERICA DOES NOT NEED
- Nurses, Covid-19, Healthcare Crisis & Defending Public Health With NNU Pres. Burger
- The pandemic could reshape the world order. Trump’s chaotic strategy is backing the US into a corner
- Navajo Nation: Where COVID-19 claims whole families
- It’s Not Obesity. It’s Slavery.
- Joe Kennedy III calls for essential worker fund for COVID victims
- Mumbai hospital workers protest as employee at Covid-19 ward dies after allegedly being denied leave
- 62,000 healthcare workers in the US have tested positive for the coronavirus, the CDC says. The number is likely far higher.
- Nurses Still Waiting for Masks After 100 COVID RN Deaths
- Nurses unsafely exposed to COVID-19 at work, nationwide survey finds
- Questions mount over mask decontamination machine once hailed as a game-changer
- Trump Team Killed Rule Designed To Protect Health Workers From Pandemic Like COVID-19
- HCA Healthcare plans hospital layoffs, nurses say
- There's Still Time To Get A (Remote) Summer Internship
- COVID-19 Has Killed Close To 300 U.S. Health Care Workers, New Data From CDC Shows
- How COVID-19 will permanently change Central California healthcare
- Nurses at Las Vegas hospital hold protest
- Fresno nurse who was exposed to an infected COVID-19 patient dies of coronavirus
- Trump and GOP Want COVID-19 Protections for Bosses — But Not Workers
- Nurses seek raises, plan protests; HCA asks union to forgo pay hike to avoid layoffs
- North Carolina Nurses Seek Their First Union
- Global Vaccine Competition; More Than 100,000 Dead
- It’s a big deal that the outrage expressed over George Floyd’s death was massive and multiracial
- Nurse speaks out about concerns of ICU beds and resources
- Nurses expected to picket Sanford policies in Bemidji
- Nurses look for solution to unsafe COVID working conditions
- MNA reacts to COVID-19 cases increasing; nurses don’t feel safe
- Nurses Disciplined, Fired for Wearing Hospital-Issued Scrubs
- America begins to unlock for summer – but is it inviting a disastrous second wave?
- Young nurse’s death highlights questions about COVID-19 pandemic’s true toll
- Behind The Scenes: Sickened Health Care Workers Discuss Worries About Jobs, Their Families
- This Nurse Treating COVID-19 Patients Spent At Least $500 On Protective Gear Because Her Hospital Kept Running Out
- Nearly 300 Healthcare Workers Have Died From Coronavirus
- Coronavirus updates: Fresno Nurse honored with vigil; Tulare County reaches 80 deaths
- Nurses union sues San Jose hospital in bid to block closure of labor and delivery wing
- COVID-19 Has Killed Close To 300 U.S. Health Care Workers, New Data From CDC Shows
- ‘It’s about patient safety.’ Blake nurses protest possible layoffs, staff shortages
- Map: America's 100,000+ Covid-19 deaths
- HCA Healthcare nurses protest alleged layoff threats
- MountainView Hospital nurses protest pay cuts, layoffs