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International Nurse News Round-Up
France: ER strikes in several Lyon hospitals
Canada
- Headline: With demand for nurse practitioners rising, UPEI looks to keep up
- Headline: Quebec nurses push for new law to limit nurse-to-patient ratios
- Headline: The United Nurses of Alberta celebrate a win
- Headline: Coalition Seeks Private Sector Pay Equity Legislation By 2020
- Titre: La FIQ manifeste devant l’hôpital Laurentien
Headline: The FIQ is demonstrating in front of Laurentien Hospital - Titre: Au Québec, des médecins refusent une… augmentation de salaire
Headline: In Quebec, doctors refuse a ... salary increase - Titre: La mobilisation des infirmières ne s'essouffle pas
Headline: The mobilization of nurses does not run out of steam - Titre: La colère des infirmières en guerre contre la surcharge de travail
Headline: Angry nurses battling against work overload
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Hospitales presentan déficit de enfermeras según la ADEG
Headline: Hospitals show a shortage of nurses according to the ADEG - Titular: Enfermeras dicen sentirse como “cuerpo sin cabeza”; piden regularización de su estatus
Headline: Nurses say they feel like a "headless body"; They ask for regularization of their status
France
Greece
- Επικεφαλίδα: ΠΑΣΟΝΟΠ: Ανάγκη για δημιουργία μιας νέας ειδικότητας, αυτής των «Φροντιστών Ασθενών»
Headline: PASONOP: Need to create a new specialty, that of "Patient Careers"
Ireland
- Headline: INMO calls for emergency period in health service to be declared after severe weather
- Headline: Tired and worried patients wait on trolleys for hours as hospital A&Es choked after blizzard
- Headline: INMO says 614 patients waiting for hospital bed
- Headline: Blood shortages loom as 620 people wait for a hospital bed
- Headline: Difficult week for health service as trolleys near record levels – Harris
- Headline: Flu claims 116 lives, with over 3,200 hospitalised
- Headline: NURSES CALL FOR EMERGENCY PERIOD AS UHG TROLLEY FIGURE HITS ALMOST 700 IN FEBRUARY
Kenya
- Headline: Lamu health workers withdraw services citing mistreatment
- Headline: KNH crisis deepens as nurses down tools
Mexico
- Titular: Un grupo de médicos y enfermeras siguen en plantón en Oaxaca
Headline: A group of doctors and nurses continue sit-in in Oaxaca - Titular: Luego de 40 días, médicos y enfermeras levantan paro en Oaxaca
Headline: After 40 days, doctors and nurses end strike in Oaxaca - Titular: Siguen aún sin recibir pagos enfermeros suplentes del H. Salvatierra
Headline: They still have not received supplemental nursing payments from H. Salvatierra - Titular: El alto precio que pagó una enfermera por revelar corrupción en sistema de Salud
Headline: The high price paid by a nurse for revealing corruption in the health system
New Zealand
- Headline: Strike action the 'next option' if nurses reject latest pay offer from DHBs
- Headline: Nurses face choice of accepting pay offer or vote to take industrial action
- Headline: Union fears of CTU 'power grab' in proposed Government agreement
- Headline: Under attack: Assaults on hospital staff on the rise in Northland
Portugal
- Manchete: Enfermeiros de Coimbra denunciam dívida de 18.500 horas
Headline: Nurses of Coimbra denounce 18,500 hours back hours - Manchete: Enfermeiros criticam "quota ínfima" de profissionais a contratar para Luanda
Headline: Nurses criticize "small quota" of professionals to hire for Luanda
United Kingdom
- Headline: John McDonnell criticises 'mean-spirited' NHS pay deal
- Headline: NHS staff offered 6.5% pay rise over three years if they forfeit day's holiday
- Headline: Rise in number of nurses and midwives in Scotland 'undermined' by increase in vacancies
- Headline: Nursing associates: will they become a cheap substitute for nurses?
United States
- Headline: California nurses union leader RoseAnn DeMoro retiring, but remains ‘on call’
- Headline: Longtime California Nurses Association leader DeMoro retires
- Headline: 18k Kaiser nurses vote for option to strike at California facilities
- Headline: Rep. Gabbard backs legislation to improve nurse safety
- Headline: Kaiser’s unionized nurses vote to OK strike if management doesn’t heed warnings
- Headline: Ani Gasparyan: UC’s nursing retirement plan jeopardizes patient, workplace safety
- Headline: Over 18,000 Kaiser RNs Prepared to Strike in California