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International Nurse News Round-Up
Argentina: Embrace and strike in the Posadas
Argentina
Australia
- Headline: Permanent escort for Cherbourg hospital staff
- Headline: 'Why have a course where there's no outcome?' James Cook University under fire for healthcare degree
Brazil
Brazil
Canada
- Headline: Nurses Go To Work Expecting To Be Hurt By Patients. This Has To End
- Titre: Nous avons des solutions
Headline: We have solutions - Headline: Ontario nurses walk away from contract talks
- Headline: Ontario nurses’ union walks away from bargaining with hospitals
- Headline: Bargaining Breaks Down For Hospital RNs
- Headline: ICU nurse to retire in response to changes to Winnipeg's health care system
- Titre: Rencontre avec le ministre Gaétan Barrette: on est à la croisée des chemins.
Headline: Meeting with Minister Gaétan Barrette: we are at a crossroads. - Titre: Des engagements difficiles à mettre en œuvre en santé?
Headline: Difficult commitments to implement in health? - Titre: Les infirmières submergées par d’autres tâches
Headline: Nurses overwhelmed by other tasks - Titre: L’Hôtel-Dieu de Sorel maintient le cap
Headline: Sorel Hospital stays on course - Titre: Des quarts de 12 heures pour les infirmières, la solution?
Headline: 12-hour shifts for nurses, the solution? - Titre: Une rencontre positive avec le ministre de la Santé
Headline: A positive meeting with the Minister of Health - Titre: Temps supplémentaire : les infirmières et le CIUSSS arrivent à une entente
Headline: Extra time: nurses and CIUSSS reach an agreement
China
Honduras
Ireland
Italy
Malta
Mexico
- Titular: Red de Defensoras condena uso de Poder Judicial contra enfermeras
Headline: Defenders Network condemns use of Judicial Power against nurses - Titular: Rompe diálogo sindicato de salud con gobiernos de Oaxaca y federal
Headline: Health union breaks dialogue with Oaxacan and federal governments
Nigeria
Pakistan
Portugal
- Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros defende mais contratações para o Hospital de Gaia
Headline: Nurses’ union defends more hiring for Gaia Hospital - Manchete: Hospitais algarvios começam Fevereiro com menos 40 enfermeiros e sem licença para contratar
Headline: Algarve hospitals start February with less than 40 nurses and no license to hire - Manchete: Sindicato equaciona luta para exigir substituição de 40 enfermeiros no Algarve
Headline: Union plans fight to demand replacement of 40 Algarve nurses - Manchete: Litoral alentejano tem falta de médicos e de dezenas de enfermeiros
Headline: Litoral coast lacks doctors and dozens of nurses - Manchete: Bloco de Esquerda defende contratação de enfermeiros admitidos no plano de contingencia da gripe
Headline: Left Block defends hiring of nurses admitted during the flu contingency plan
South Africa
- Headline: Nurses protest continues at Limpopo health head office
- Headline: South Africa: Healthworker Protests Rock Limpopo As State Debt Mounts
- Headline: DENOSA: SIBANYE-STILLWATER MINE DEATHS SHOULD SERVE AS WAKEUP CALL
Spain
- Titular: SATSE gana dos sentencias que obligan a pagar atrasos de carrera profesional
Headline: SATSE wins two sentences that force pay professional career arrears - Titular: Sanidad se compromete con Satse a mejorar las condiciones de la enfermería
Headline: Sanidad commits with Satse to improve the conditions of nursing - Titular: Llamamiento enfermero a usar “todos los recursos posibles” contra el cáncer
Headline: Nursing call to use "all possible resources" against cancer - Titular: Satse pide jornadas de 35 horas para todos los sanitarios "sin excepción"
Headline: Satse asks for 35-hour days for all health workers, "without exception" - Titular: Alertan de una «desbandada» de profesionales a primaria por la presión asistencial en el Chop
Headline: Alert of a "disbandment" of primary care professionals - Titular: Satse critica la “discriminación” que da prioridad a las enfermeras de área en las bolsas de empleo temporales
Headline: Satse criticizes the "discrimination" that prioritizes area nurses in temporary job boards - Titular: El éxodo de enfermeros extremeños continuó en 2017, según Satse
Headline: The exodus of nurses from Extremadura continued in 2017, according to Satse - Titular: SATSE se manifestará por la demora del Concurso de Traslados del SAS de Enfermería
Headline: SATSE will mobilize due to the delay in SAS Nursing Transfer Exam - Titular: El Sindicato de Enfermería SATSE denuncia el abandono que padecen los profesionales del Hospital de la Axarquía ante las agresiones
Headline: SATSE Nursing Union denounces abandonment of Axarquía Hospital professionals in the face of aggressions - Titular: Oleada de robos en centros de salud de la región
Headline: Surge of robberies at region’s health centers - Titular: Médicos y enfermeras consideran un avance que se permita opositar sin el catalán
Headline: Doctors and nurses consider a move towards allowing an entrance exam without Catalán - Titular: Satse denuncia el "desbordamiento" de la unidad de Reanimación del Reina Sofía
Headline: Satse denounces "overflow" at the Queen Sofia Recovery Unit
United Kingdom
- Headline: 'Stop paying nurses peanuts', says RCN president
- Headline: Nursing associates must be supported to go on and train as nurses, urges RCN leader
- Headline: Improving efficiency and strengthening relationships
- Headline: One in five nurses in care sector on ‘zero hours’ contracts
- Headline: Fears over pressure on care system as National Audit Office warns staff and funding are not sustainable
- Headline: Jeremy Hunt ‘hell bent’ on slashing nurse numbers as bursaries taken away from postgrads – RCN chief
- Headline: Additional regulation of advanced nurses would be ‘unwieldy’, says RCN leader
- Headline: Is Brexit costing us nurses? Gloucestershire hospitals see 80 per cent drop in nurses joining from EU countries
- Headline: More nurses needed to avoid new Mid Staffs-style scandal, says RCN
- Headline: Fix the NHS: Protesters rally in London to call for government action
- Headline: RCN welcomes Welsh government's £100m investment in ‘new models of care’
United States
- Headline: Nurses Returning from Second Puerto Rico Mission Call Any Removal of FEMA Aid ‘Premature and Deadly’
- Headline: Janus is coming. Are you ready?
- Headline: Opinion: Single-payer provides best cure for California health care
- Headline: A renewed push for single payer at Sacramento health care hearing
- Headline: Assembly Universal Health Care Hearing Wraps Up With Single-Payer Debate
- Headline: Wimberley nurses who unionized say management is retaliating
- Headline: Nurses Association negotiator calls UC contract proposals 'egregious'
- Headline: Can the Democratic Party’s Left Flank Win in 2018? This Illinois Primary Could Be a Bellwether
- Headline: Chorus of healthcare advocates praise single-payer system, but differ on how quickly California should pursue it