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International Nurse News Round-Up
Zimbabwe: Nurses call off strike, doctors defiant
Australia
- Headline: Spot checks won't fix bigger issue says QNMU
- Headline: Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation launch Bring Your Own Bed campaign at LGH
- Headline: Nurses stepping up fight with national aged care ad campaign
- Headline: Concerns for resident care at popular nursing home after nurses made redundant
Brazil
Canada
- Headline: Nova Scotia health-care unions seek strike vote
- Headline: Mandatory overtime at St. Boniface Hospital 'basically how they're staffing': nurses union
- Headline: Mandatory OT at St. Boniface Hospital at ‘crisis level’: nurses union
- Headline: Nurses’ union sounds alarm over working conditions at St. Boniface
- Headline: Union says nursing OT at ‘crisis level’ at St. Boniface Hospital
- Headline: Testing Quebec’s patients: Students should care about the nursing crisis
- Headline: Manitoba Nurses Working Mandatory Overtime at Critical Level: Union
- Headline: St. Boniface Hospital 'no longer safe': worker
- Headline: Little of $245-million windfall to ease ‘chronic problems’ with long-term care
- Headline: Group of N.S. health-care unions to hold first provincewide strike vote
Dominican Republic
France
India
Ireland
- Headline: Trolley crisis 'not over' - INMO
- Headline: Nurses' union reveals 500 patients on trolleys and warn "crisis is not over"
Kenya
New Zealand
- Headline: Nurses to vote on pay offer
- Headline: Nurses scoff at 2 p.c pay offer
- Headline: DHBs, nursing union 'hopeful' strikes can be avoided but preparing for worst
- Headline: Nurses to strike if no improvement on pay, working conditions
- Headline: Tired, stressed nurses considering strike action
- Headline: Staff shortages leave mothers in labour helping one another
- Headline: New figures highlight midwife shortages
- Headline: Nurses assaulted at Christchurch hospital after police don't respond to call for help
- Headline: Assaults on staff at Waitākere and North Shore hospitals jump by 9 per cent
Paraguay
- Titular: Enfermeras denuncian sistema de trabajo caótico
Headline: Nurses denounce chaotic work system - Titular: Unos 4.000 enfermeros están desempleados y trabajan “en cualquier otra cosa”, afirman
Headline: Some 4,000 nurses are unemployed and work "in anything else," they say.
Portugal
- Manchete: Sindicato faz balanço positivo da greve dos enfermeiros e destaca conquistas
Headline: Union takes positive view of nurses' strike and highlights achievements - Manchete: Greve de enfermeiros ameaça parar consultas e cirurgias
Headline: Nurses strike threatens to stop consultations and surgeries - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros pede reunião urgente a ministros das Finanças e Saúde
Headline: Nurses Union calls for urgent meeting between Finance and Health ministers - Manchete: Cirurgias canceladas são principal consequência no segundo dia da greve dos enfermeiros
Headline: Canceled surgeries are the main consequence on the second day of the nurses' strike - Manchete: Greve de enfermeiros leva ao cancelamento de cirurgias em todo o país
Headline: Nurses strike leads to cancellation of surgeries across the country - Manchete: Enfermeiros: adesão à greve rondou os 70% no turno da noite
Headline: Nurses: adherence to the strike was around 70% on the night shift - Manchete: Greve dos enfermeiros. Segundo dia avança hoje, mas Sindicato faz balanço positivo de quinta-feira
Headline: Nurses strike. Second day advances today, but Union made positive turn Thursday - Manchete: Enfermeiros: Sindicato pede reunião urgente a ministros das Finanças e Saúde
Headline: Nurses: Union urges urgent meeting of finance and health ministers - Manchete: Greve/Enfermeiros: Sindicato faz balanço positivo e enaltece conquistas
Headline: Strike / Nurses: Union shows positive results and praises achievements - Manchete: Um em cada cinco enfermeiros diz sofrer de sintomas de depressão grave
Headline: One in five nurses says they suffer from severe symptoms of depression - Manchete: Greve dos Enfermeiros: Cirurgias programadas adiadas nos hospitais do Alentejo, diz sindicato
Headline: Nurses' Strike: Scheduled surgeries postponed at Alentejo hospitals, union says
South Africa
- Headline: Denosa: Motsoaledi 'is overwhelmed and must go'
- Headline: Health unions to stage Johannesburg protest on Friday
South Korea
- Headline: Gov’t to Remedy Toxic Working Conditions for Nurses
- Headline: Union calls for reforms to “burn culture” in the medical industry
Spain
- Titular: Satse: "El acuerdo de empleados públicos aumenta las desigualdades entre los sanitarios"
Headline: Satse: "The public employees’ agreement increases inequalities between health workers" - Titular: #StopAgresiones, la nueva campaña en redes sociales de Satse
Headline: #StopAggressions, Satse's new social media campaign - Titular: Satse elabora un proyecto de Ley contra las agresiones a sanitarios
Headline: Satse drafts a law against aggressions toward health workers - Titular: La rotura de una tubería en el Clínico afecta a parte del techo de la UCI y motiva el traslado de pacientes
Headline: Pipe rupture in clinic affects part of the ICU roof, causing patient transfers - Titular: Satse recurre ante el TSJEx la acumulación de plazas del SES
Headline: Satse appeals to the TSJEx (Extremadura Superior Court of Justice) against the grouping of places by the SES (Extremadura Health Service) - Titular: Pacientes por el suelo y saturación en Oftalmología
Headline: Patients cover the floor in Ophthalmology - Titular: Marañón: Hay enfermeras que necesitarían ingresar, como pacientes, en Urgencias
Headline: Marañón: There are nurses who would need to enter the emergency room as patients - Titular: ¿Qué pasa con la gestión de Personal en los hospitales públicos?
Headline: What happens with the personnel management in public hospitals? - Titular: El Satse exige que los centros sanitarios certifiquen las funciones de gestión frente al Virgen de la Concha
Headline: In front of the Virgen de la Concha hospital, Satse demands that health centers certify management functions - Titular: La organización del personal en el área sanitaria preocupa a los profesionales
Headline: The organization of health worker personnel worries professionals - Titular: SATSE volverá a movilizarse mañana por las funciones de Enfermería
Headline: SATSE will mobilize tomorrow over nurses’ responsibilities - Titular: Sanidad compra 14 cabinas de seguridad para preparar medicamentos peligrosos
Headline: Department of Health purchases 14 secure booths for preparing dangerous medicines
United Kingdom
- Headline: Patient safety hit by lack of staff, warn 80% of NHS workers
- Headline: Lowest paid NHS staff may receive pay rise of up to 29% in new deal
- Headline: 'We do not need more barriers for nursing students'
United States
- Headline: Some Johns Hopkins nurses trying to unionize
- Headline: Kaiser Permanente reaches tentative labor deal with 19k healthcare workers
- Headline: Thousands of Sacramento-area hospital workers will see wage increases
- Headline: Johns Hopkins nurses eye unionizing over staffing, benefits
- Headline: Some nurses push for vote to unionize at Johns Hopkins: 5 things to know
- Headline: County nurses reach tentative contract agreement
- Headline: Kaiser Permanente, nurses union, reach tentative contract agreement for Northern California
- Headline: Prince Georgians Embrace State Single-Payer System
- Headline: San Rafael Kaiser nurses negotiate new contract
- Headline: Kaiser and Northern California nurses agree on 5-year labor contract
- Headline: Nurses Reach 5-Year Tentative Agreement With Kaiser Permanente
- Headline: County nurses reach tentative contract agreement