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International Nurse News Round-Up
New Zealand: Nurses and midwives continue to fight for collective agreement
Argentina
Australia
- Headline: Adequate staffing needed to combat resident abuse: workers
- Headline: Strike over: Bupa nurses and carers negotiate nearly 4% per annum wage increase in Victoria
- Headline: NSW government backs down on hospital sell-off plans
- Headline: NSW government abandons fifth hospital privatisation plan in Maitland
- Headline: Union fear cuts at Ipswich aged care facilities
- Headline: Blue Care's attack on staff 'offensive'
- Headline: Claims old woman left with broken hip
- Headline: Toowoomba region's Blue Care cuts raise concerns
Canada
- Headline: Longtime head of Ontario’s nurses talks about the challenges ahead as she retires
- Headline: York Region, public health nurses reach tentative deal
- Headline: York Region and public health nurses reach tentative two-year deal
- Headline: Phase 1 of health care reforms cut wait times, jobs
- Headline: Wait times down, wait list for sub-acute beds up: Winnipeg health authority
- Headline: EDITORIAL: Keeping nurses safe from workplace violence
- Titre: Les infirmières contre-attaquent en lançant une publicité
Headline: Nurses counterattack by launching an advertisement - Titre: Le cri du coeur d'une jeune infirmière devient viral
Headline: The cry of the heart of a young nurse becomes viral - Titre: Québec invite les infirmières exténuées à proposer des solutions
Headline: Québec invites exhausted nurses to propose solutions - Titre: Infirmières éreintées par le temps supplémentaire
Headline: Nurses strained by the extra time - Titre: Les infirmières essoufflées par le temps supplémentaire obligatoire
Headline: Nurses out of breath with compulsory overtime - Titre: L’infirmière Émilie Ricard prise dans un «tourbillon d’émotions»
Headline: Nurse Émilie Ricard caught in a "whirlwind of emotions" - Titre: La Vérif : le Québec a besoin de 1968 infirmières
Headline: The Verification: Quebec Needs 1968 Nurses
Dominican Republic
Ireland
- Headline: Nurses say January was worst ever month for hospital overcrowding
- Headline: Nurses say 644 patients on trolleys, wards awaiting admission to a hospital bed
- Headline: Warning of nurse exodus after 2020
Mexico
- Titular: Rebasan urgencias al Hospital Civil de Oaxaca
Headline: Emergencies overrun Oaxaca’s Civil Hospital - Titular: Cercan médicos y enfermeras la ciudad de Oaxaca
Headline: Doctors and nurses encircle the city of Oaxaca - Titular: Médicos y enfermeras de Oaxaca toman casetas
Headline: Doctors and nurses in Oaxaca take a stand - Titular: Médicos y enfermeras se movilizan en la Costa
Headline: Doctors and nurses mobilize on the Coast - Titular: Paro de 24 horas en el hospital Pasteur
Headline: 24-hour strike at the Pasteur hospital
New Zealand
- Headline: Grads struggling to find work - Nurses' Union
- Headline: Union pushes for guaranteed jobs for nursing grads
- Headline: Nurses and midwives continue to fight for collective agreement
Portugal
- Manchete: Sindicato quer acabar com fatos machistas de enfermeiras no Carnaval
Headline: Union wants to end sexist facts about nurses at Carnival - Manchete: Ordem dos Enfermeiros: Portugueses estão em risco devido aos “poucos e exaustos” enfermeiros
Headline: Nurses' Order: Portuguese are at risk due to the "too few and exhausted" nurses
South Africa
Spain
- Titular: Satse: "Las enfermeras están trabajando mucho más por mucho menos"
Headline: Satse: "Nurses are working much more for much less" - Titular: Satse clama contra Alcampo por su “indignante” disfraz de enfermera
Headline: Satse cries out against Alcampo for their "outrageous" nurse's costume - Titular: Anpe y Satse celebran la recuperación salarial del 3% en las nóminas de empleados públicos de C-LM
Headline: Anpe and Satse celebrate the 3% salary recovery in the payrolls of C-LM’s public employees - Titular: SATSE rechaza la unificación de la OPE 2016 con la de estabilización
Headline: SATSE rejects the unification of 2016 OPE with stabilization - Titular: Andalucía "incumple de forma sostenida la normativa de bioseguridad", según un informe de la Mesa de Profesión Enfermera
Headline: Andalusia "fails to comply with bio-safety regulations", according to a report by the Nurse Profession Board - Titular: Satse exige que la sala de espera de Urgencias cuente con una enfermera
Headline: Satse demands that emergency waiting rooms have a nurse - Titular: Alertan de bajas de sanitarios en el máximo pico de la gripe en Catalunya
Headline: Warning of poor health at the peak of flu season in Catalonia - Titular: Satse denuncia que La Arrixaca tiene «100 camas» inutilizadas y el SMS lo niega
Headline: Satse denounces that La Arrixaca has "100 beds" unused and the SMS denies it - Titular: El Satse alerta sobre las frecuentes agresiones al personal sanitario y pide concienciar a la sociedad sobre las mismas
Headline: Satse warns of frequent attacks on health personnel and calls for social awareness - Titular: SATSE pide la equiparación de salarios de las enfermeras de Castilla y León a los del resto de España
Headline: SATSE calls for salaries of nurses in Castilla and León to equal the rest of Spain - Titular: Un sindicato denuncia el riesgo de agresiones en el Hospital Vega Baja por falta de personal
Headline: Union denounces the risk of violence in the Vega Baja Hospital due to lack of personnel
United Kingdom
- Headline: Nurse and midwife training places boosted by over 10%
- Headline: States’ modernisation will not attract health workers
- Headline: Nurse vacancies at Oxfordshire hospitals almost double in just one year
- Headline: Campaign to stop NHS sick pay and pensions being 'eroded' as 750 Gloucestershire hospital staff to transfer to new company
United States
- Headline: Nurses — backed by Newsom — ramp up fight for universal health care
- Headline: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
- Headline: Nurses clash with UC leaders over contract proposals
- Headline: Sutter Health says Alta Bates will stay open for at least another decade
- Headline: Nurses Unite
- Headline: UC nurses rally statewide as contract negotiations continue
- Headline: With FEMA Aid Stoppage, US Government Confirms It Still Sees Puerto Rico as Colony
- Headline: Public hospital board violated D.C. law with secret vote to close obstetrics unit