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International Nurse News Round-Up
Spain: Are there enough midwives in the Virgen del Rocio in Seville?
Australia
- Headline: The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) takes the gloves off (again) to push for staff ratios in aged care with new TV and billboard campaign
- Headline: ANMF Tasmania sends LGH ED campaign postcards to health minister
- Headline: Indigenous groups hit back over nurses, midwives’ ‘white privilege’ code of conduct
Canada
- Titre: Où les projets pilotes sur le ratio patients-infirmière auront-ils lieu?
Headline: Where will patient-nurse ratio pilot projects take place? - Titre: FIQ conteste la création de 150 postes d'infirmières au Bas-Saint-Laurent
Headline: FIQ challenges the creation of 150 nurses’ positions in Bas-Saint-Laurent - Titre: Les infirmières estiment avoir été oubliées dans le budget Leitao
Headline: Nurses believe they have been forgotten in the Leitao budget - Headline: APH Nurses, Nurse Practitioners to hold second day of talks, hoping to avoid a strike
- Headline: Nurses concerned about health care consolidation
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Enfermeras demandan de autoridades reconocer rol de gremios
Headline: Nurses demand authorities recognize role of unions - Titular: Gremios de enfermería advierten intensificarán su lucha
Headline: Nursing unions warn they will intensify their fight
France
Ireland
- Headline: March breaks records for hospital overcrowding - INMO
- Headline: HSE hires 3 times more office staff than nurses
Kenya
- Headline: Homa Bay nurses strike over delayed salaries, suspensions
- Headline: Homa Bay nurses strike over delayed pay
- Headline: Health crisis looms as CS Rotich fails to honour doctors’ pay deal
Mexico
- Titular: Médicos y enfermeras del Chávez laboran bajo protesta
Headline: Chavez doctors and nurses work under protest - Titular: Huelga de trabajadores de salud en Chiapas buscaba mejorar servicio
Headline: Chiapas health workers strike sought to improve service
Morocco
Namibia
New Zealand
- Headline: No thanks! Nurses reject DHB's 2 per cent pay rise, $1050 lump sum as strike action looms
- Headline: Two percent pay rise for nurses 'woefully inadequate'
- Headline: Nurses won't vote on striking for at least two weeks
- Headline: Rotorua support for nationwide nurses' strike
- Headline: 'Climate is for striking' - Tauranga nurse
- Headline: Nurses reject latest pay offer, will vote on whether to strike
- Headline: Nurses concerned over hospital air quality
- Headline: Opinion: Nurses are stretched to capacity - we deserve more than a 2 percent pay rise
- Headline: Health sector finances 'worse than I thought' - Jacinda Ardern
- Headline: Nurses pay disptute: Jacinda Ardern weighs in, urges DHB's to establish 'independent panel' to reach settlement
Peru
Portugal
- Manchete: Sindicato diz que adesão à greve dos enfermeiros foi 69% e exige admissão de profissionais
Headline: Union says that adherence to the nurses' strike was 69% and requires admission of professionals - Manchete: Greve dos enfermeiros cancela cirurgias
Headline: Nurses strike cancels surgeries - Manchete: Hospital do Litoral Alentejano encerra camas por falta de enfermeiros - sindicato
Headline: Litoral Alentejano Hospital closes beds for lack of nurses - union - Manchete: Sindicato quer mais 150 enfermeiros para o Centro Hospitalar do Médio Tejo
Headline: Union wants 150 more nurses for the Middle Tagus Hospital Center - Manchete: Enfermeiros reclamam mais 150 contratações para o Centro Hospitalar do Médio Tejo
Headline: Nurses call for 150 more hires at the Middle Tagus Hospital Center - Manchete: Enfermeiros desafiam governo a negociar contratações
Headline: Nurses challenge government to negotiate hirings
Spain
- Titular: ¿Hay matronas suficientes en el Virgen del Rocío de Sevilla?
Headline: Are there enough midwives in the Virgen del Rocio in Seville? - Titular: Satse denuncia la amortización de una plaza de matrona en Valladolid
Headline: Satse denounces the elimination of a midwifery position in Valladolid - Titular: Otra sentencia da la razón a SATSE frente a Cruz Roja
Headline: Another verdict in favor of SATSE against Red Cross - Titular: “Los recortes han provocado un aumento de las agresiones a sanitarios"
Headline: "The cuts have caused an increase in attacks on health workers" - Titular: Satse critica la "discriminación" del SAS a enfermería y fisioterapia "al negarles" la clasificación en el grupo A1
Headline: Satse criticizes "discrimination" against SAS nurses and physiotherapists "by denying" their classification in the A1 group - Titular: El Satse entrega 1.800 firmas para exigir al Govern que reconozca el "solape" como jornada laboral
Headline: Satse delivers 1,800 signatures to demand that the Government recognize the "overlap" as a workday - Titular: El personal sanitario pide más medidas de seguridad ante las agresiones
Headline: Health personnel asks for more security measures in the face of aggressions
United Kingdom
- Headline: Bucks hospitals face staffing crisis as hundreds of nurse positions remain empty
- Headline: MS nurses criticise ‘cumbersome’ disability benefits system
- Headline: Skeleton staff fear at Omagh’s new urgent care unit
United States
- Headline: Piecemeal bills will not fix California's health care. Single payer is the only solution
- Headline: Millions turning out nationwide to stop gun violence
- Headline: Chicago county health system calls for federal gun control
- Headline: March for Our Lives: St. Louis rallies against gun violence
- Headline: Single payer health care takes center stage in gubernatorial races
- Headline: Nurses at Hopkins planning to unionize
- Headline: San Mateo County nurses ratify pact for minimum 5 percent pay raises
- Headline: County nurses reach tentative contract agreement
- Headline: Silicon Valley nurses Ratify Contract With 13-16 Percent Raises