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International Nurse News Round-Up
The leaders of Uganda Nurses and Midwives Union and National Organization of Trade Unions addressing journalists in Kampala on April 15, 2018. PHOTO BY STEPHEN WANDERA
Australia
- Headline: Nurses and midwives gather outside Wagga Base to demand hospital addresses staffing concerns
- Headline: Wagga Base Hospital's director of nursing and midwifery meets with union representatives to discuss working conditions
- Headline: NSW Health in talks with paramedics and nurses over Westpac rescue chopper dispute
Bahamas
Canada
- Headline: OPINION: Wasteful, wrong-headed
- Titre: Crise en santé : «Où est l’intérêt du patient ?» clame Facal
Headline: Health crisis: "Where is the patient's interest?" Claims Facal - Headline: Talks between Algoma Public Health, its nurses and nurse practitioners, fail, union says; back to table April 25
- Headline: Union calls for nurses to be included in workers mental health legislation
- Headline: Union 'disappointed' nurses left out of proposed PTSD legislation
- Headline: Talks with Algoma public health nurses not going well
- Headline: Saskatchewan nurse fined for palliative care critique on Facebook loses appeal
- Headline: Advocacy group presses N.S. government to ban private plasma companies
Honduras
- Titular: Enfermeros auxiliares mantendrán paro en zona norte y abortan medidas en el resto del país
Headline: Auxiliary nurses will maintain their strike in the northern zone and abort measures in the rest of the country - Titular: Enfermeras auxiliares abortan paro de labores a nivel nacional
Headline: Auxiliary nurses end nationwide strike
India
Ireland
- Headline: Number waiting for outpatient treatment rises to record level
- Headline: Government proposes radical reform of how hospital wards are staffed
- Headline: INMO wants the Government to declare national health emergency
Kenya
Mexico
Titular: Chiapas con sistema de salud podrido
Headline: Chiapas’s rotten health system
New Zealand
- Headline: 'Exhausted' nurses give Govt, DHBs ultimatum as they begin rallies
- Headline: Nurses rally in Wellington to highlight pay, staffing issues
- Headline: 'Undervalued' nurses rally for better pay at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital
- Headline: 'It's at breaking point' - nurses begin protest action
- Headline: Nurses speak out about culture of bullying in profession
- Headline: Protesting nurses warn of 'absolute crisis'
- Headline: Nurses rally outside Wellington Hospital for better work conditions and pay
- Headline: Margaret Wilson to chair panel on nurses pay
Peru
Portugal
- Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros promove sessão de esclarecimento na Madeira
Headline: Nurses union promotes clarification session in Madeira - Manchete: Governo Regional e sindicato mantêm divergência sobre dívida a enfermeiros
Headline: Regional Government and union maintain divergence over debt to nurses - Manchete: Enfermeiros, utentes e autarcas exigem mais profissionais de saúde
Headline: Nurses, users and mayors require more health professionals - Manchete: Enfermeiros continuam sem conduzir carros de serviços à espera de garantias escritas da ARS
Headline: Nurses Continue to Drive Service Cars Waiting for ARS Written Guarantees
South Africa
- Headline: Student nurses have no books
- Headline: Nurses lament beds ‘crisis’ at King Edward Hospital
Spain
- Titular: Los profesionales de Enfermería se vuelcan contra las agresiones
Headline: Nursing professionals turn against the aggressions - Titular: Más enfermeras para lograr una cobertura sanitaria universal
Headline: More nurses for achieving universal health coverage - Titular: SATSE muestra su preocupación ante el “colapso” de las Urgencias del Hospital de La Princesa
Headline: SATSE expresses concern about the "collapse" of La Princesa Hospital ER - Titular: Aumentan las agresiones físicas a profesionales sanitarios, según SATSE
Headline: Physical aggressions increase for healthcare professionals, according to SATSE - Titular: Satse denuncia la organización de las jornadas de enfermería en los hospitales de Badajoz
Headline: Satse denounces the organization of nurses’ workdays in Badajoz hospitals - Titular: Satse Ciudad Real exige al Sescam medidas para evitar agresiones a los profesionales sanitarios
Headline: Satse Ciudad Real requires Sescam measures to prevent aggressions against health professionals - Titular: Más de 1800 enfermeras piden al Ibsalut que se reconozca el solape como jornada laboral
Headline: More than 1800 nurses ask Ibsalut to recognize the overlap as a working day - Titular: Navarra cuenta ya con la figura del Interlocutor Policial Sanitario
Headline: Navarra already has the figure of Health Police Interlocutor - Titular: SATSE pone “líneas rojas” a la Carrera Profesional en el SERMAS
Headline: SATSE puts "red lines" to the Professional Career in the SERMAS
Uganda
- Headline: Nurses’ Union threatens another sit down strike
- Nurses’ Union threatens another sit down strike
United Kingdom
- Headline: Respiratory nurses highlight staffing concerns in COPD care
- Headline: RCN to research how far view of nursing as 'women's work' negatively affects pay
- Headline: Students need to be involved in the vote on NHS pay
- Headline: New regional RCN leader aims to boost support for nursing directors over care quality
United States
- Headline: Nurses will not be silent about the threat of Community Hospital Long Beach’s closure
- Headline: An ambitious California bill would put the state in charge of controlling prices in the commercial healthcare market
- Headline: California's new rules for workplace violence prevention in hospitals take effect: 4 things to know
- Headline: Super PAC goes on the air for Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s primary challenger
Headline: UCSF Health, John Muir Health to open non-emergency outpatient center in Berkeley - Headline: MemorialCare begins process of notifying Community employees of impending layoffs.
- Headline: Spreading 'Like Wildfire': Majority of Americans—Including 74% of Democrats—Now Support Single-Payer
- Headline: Workplace Violence Prevention Plans Now Mandatory for California Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities
Headline: County Hearing Collects Information About Pending Community Hospital Closure - Headline: How single-payer healthcare became the biggest policy flashpoint in California's race for governor
- Headline: An ambitious California bill would put the state in charge of controlling prices in the commercial healthcare market
Headline: Will Albert Lea seek 'eminent domain' in Mayo dispute? - Headline: Embattled Calais hospital to discontinue outpatient cancer services
- Headline: Calais Regional Hospital announces new cost-cutting measures