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International Nurse News Round-Up
Argentina: Massive protest in the Posadas before the dismissals: "They are emptying the hospital and privatizing sectors"
Argentina
- Titular: UPCN denunció que el Gobierno no cumple con la Ley de Enfermería
Headline: UPCN denounces the government for not complying with nursing law - Titular: Masiva protesta en el Posadas ante los despidos: “Están vaciando el hospital y privatizando sectores”
Headline: Massive protest in the Posadas before the dismissals: "They are emptying the hospital and privatizing sectors"
Australia
- Headline: Nurses at Manly Hospital protest over concerns about jobs at new Northern Beaches Hospital
- Headline: Nurses say they’re at risk under proposed prescription drug measures at Port Augusta prison
Canada
- Headline: ‘It’s been very stressful’: nurse speaks after appealing $26k fine, violation for Facebook comments
- Titre: Des sit-in à Trois-Rivières pour dénoncer la situation dans les urgences
Headline: Sit-ins held in Trois-Rivières to denounce the situation in emergency rooms - Titre: Rien ne va plus à l’hôpital de Granby
Headline: Nothing is going well at Granby Hospital - Headline: 'Wild' month at Concordia Hospital caused by crystal meth, says health region
- Headline: Workload, staffing top priorities for nurses in contract talks
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Gremio paralizará hospitales de varias provincias del país
Headline: Union will paralyze hospitals in several of the country’s provinces - Titular: Gremios exigen nombren mil enfermeras y cumplan acuerdo
Headline: Unions demand appointment of a thousand nurses and fulfillment of agreement
India
Honduras
Ireland
- Headline: 'It should be nipped in the bud': UK hospitals 'aggressively recruiting' Irish nurses
- Headline: Children on hospital trolleys now ‘constant’ fixture, say INMO
- Headline: Varadkar: No closure of Emergency Departments planned
- Headline: Forcing health professionals to get flu vaccine is ‘regressive’, union says
- Headline: Woman, 90, on hospital trolley for seven hours
Kenya
- Headline: Kakamega nurses threaten to strike over unpaid salaries
- Headline: Pay nurses' salary arrears to prevent strikes: Mohamed Kuti
- Headline: Kakamega nurses suspend strike for two weeks
Mexico
- Titular: Médicos de Oaxaca suspenden actividades en al menos 14 hospitales
Headline: Oaxaca doctors suspend activities in at least 14 hospitals - Titular: Sindicato de enfermeras y administrativos de salud en Michoacán se manifiestan en la SSM
Headline: Union of nurses and administrative health workers in Michoacán demonstrate at SSM
Peru
Portugal
- Manchete: Sindicato alerta para carência de enfermeiros no Centro Hospitalar Tondela
Headline: Union warns of nurse shortage at Tondela Hospital Center - Manchete: SINDICATO ALERTA QUE ENFERMAGEM DOMICILIÁRIA ESTÁ EM RISCO EM VISEU
Headline: UNION WARNS THAT NURSING HOME IS AT RISK IN VISEU
South Africa
- Headline: South Africa: Denosa Warns Against Bogus Nursing Colleges This January
- Headline: No Clarity On Why Gauteng Health Has Rescinded All Nursing Bursaries
Spain
- Titular: Las enfermeras, sobre la gestión de la gripe: "Siempre tarde y mal"
Headline: Nurses, on managing the flu: "Always late and bad" - Titular: Satse tilda de "despropósito" el proceso de traslados de enfermería del SNS
Headline: Satse calls the process of SNS nursing transfers "nonsense" - Titular: La mayoría de las enfermeras aseguran haber sufrido un accidente biológico
Headline: Most nurses claim to have suffered a biological accident - Titular: SATSE protesta contra los recortes de plantilla que disparan las demoras
Headline: SATSE protests against staff cuts that trigger delays - Titular: Una avería abliga a desalojar a doce niños de la UVI en el 12 de octubre
Headline: Breakdown causes eviction of twelve children from the UVI on October 12 - Titular: SATSE cree discriminatorio el seguimiento de la jornada al personal sanitario
Headline: SATSE believes follow-up measures to health personnel day are discriminatory - Titular: Satse denuncia la falta de personal en las urgencias de Pozoblanco
Headline: Satse denounces the lack of personnel in Pozoblanco urgent care centers - Titular: El Sindicato de Enfermería (SATSE) no firma el Plan de Recursos Humanos del INGESA
Headline: Nursing union (SATSE) does not sign INGESA Human Resources Plan - Titular: El Juzgado reconoce la indemnización por despido a una enfermera temporal
Headline: Court awards compensation to temporary nurse for dismissal - Titular: Satse reclama más personal en los hospitales canarios
Headline: Satse calls for more staff in Canarian hospitals
Sri Lanka
- Headline: Nurses Strike at Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital Called Off
- Headline: Nurses’ Strike at Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital ends after talks
United Kingdom
- Headline: Funding levels blamed as union claims Rotherham Hospital is "under severe pressure"
- Headline: How to engage more foreign nurses in health politics: history, language and solidarity
- Headline: Shortage of nurses in UK is affecting patient care and threatening lives
- Headline: Europe – Demand for Nursing Staff on the Rise, UK Sees Biggest Shortage of Nurses
- Headline: Patients notice when there are not enough nurses, will policymakers too?
Headline: Surge in flu cases prompts fresh call to make all nurses have jab - Headline: Health secretary apologises to beleaguered NHS staff over handling of winter delays
- Headline: Nurses leave NHS as staff crisis deepens
- Headline: Royal College of Nursing wants security review after stabbing at Leicester Royal Infirmary
- Headline: More nurses leaving NHS in Shropshire than join
- Headline: RCN says staff ‘need to be realistic’ about pay
- Headline: NI's chief nursing officer says A&E's 'not in crisis'
- Headline: Health secretary hints at pay rise for nurses in visit to Norfolk
- Headline: Brexit, difficult working conditions, and scrapped training bursaries contribute to loss of nurses
United States
- Headline: Gloves Off, Fists Up: Nurses Storm Capitol To Renew Single-Payer Fight
- Headline: Judge: Affinity hospital must stay open for 120 days
- Headline: Stark County judge orders Affinity Medical Center to stay open 120 days
- Headline: Hospital staff dumped a mentally-ill patient in freezing weather wearing only a hospital gown
- Headline: Nurses at United Medical Center say babies still being born there despite shutdown of obstetrics unit by regulators
- Headline: District officials say two babies born at United Medical Center since obstetrics shutdown
- Headline: Albany leaders join call to save Berkeley medical center
- Headline: State may spotlight Humboldt County’s nursing shortage
- Headline: California nurses and Anthony Rendon are still sparring over single-payer bill
- Headline: Gubernatorial candidate Cathy Glasson to begin running TV ads Thursday
- Headline: LGBTQ groups hit back at religious exemption for health care workers
- Headline: HHS Religious Freedom Division draws praise, alarm in Minnesota