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International Nurse News Round-Up
Dominican Republic: Nurses threaten national strike
Australia
- Headline: Responses to aged care Commission come rolling in
- Headline: Plan to combat winter flu in Tasmania not good enough to ease bed pressure, nurses say
- Headline: No cure close for ailing $2.3bn Royal Adelaide hospital
- Headline: NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association tackles Member for Wagga Daryl Maguire over staff shortage at Wagga Base Hospital
- Headline: Aged care advocate declares 'super agency' a farce
Canada
- Headline: Nurses Union supports local breakfast program
- Headline: Nurses union refutes WRHA’s claim about improved wait times
- Headline: MB Nurses Union President Visits Local School Breakfast Program
- Titre: Le Centre d'hébergement de Mont-Tremblant comptera plus d'infirmières
Headline: The Mont-Tremblant Shelter will have more nurses - Titre: La présidente de la FIQ vient haranguer ses troupes
Headline: FIQ president comes to harangue her troops - Headline: Winnipeg ER wait times have dropped by 16% overall since last year, but rose in recent months
- Headline: Cumberland regional hospital nurses push for more staff, safer working conditions
Dominican Republic
France
- Titre: Bariol : la CGT dénonce la suppression de l'infirmière de nuit
Headline: Bariol: CGT denounces removal of night nurse - Titre: Manifestation à Paris : infirmiers, étudiants et retraités côte à côte dans la rue
Headline: Demonstration in Paris: nurses, students and retirees side by side in the street
Ireland
- Headline: Framework for setting safe nurse staffing levels launched in Ireland’s health service
- Headline: Call for full rollout of nursing framework
- Headline: Simon Harris announces new nursing audit to evaluate number and type of nurses needed in every ward
- Headline: Task force recommends streamlining nurse recruitment
- Headline: Union claims new hospital safety measures will save nurses' lives
Mexico
- Titular: Salud en crisis
Headline: Health in crisis - Titular: Médicos y enfermeras piden a Velasco frenar persecución a trabajadores del Sector Salud
Headline: Doctors and nurses ask Velasco to stop persecuting workers in the Health Sector - Titular: Persecución de trabajadores no termina en el sector salud
Headline: Persecution of workers does not end in the health sector
New Zealand
- Headline: Nurses working conditions worst in 32 years
- Headline: Auckland nurses protest 'excessive and unsafe working hours'
- Headline: Nurses to vote on 'last resort' 24-hour strikes
- Headline: Nurses of Hutt Valley add their voices to calls for better staffing and fair pay
- Headline: Nurses rally for safer staffing and pay
- Headline: Nurses rally at Nelson Hospital for better pay and more staff
- Headline: Palmerston North nurses to join protests for better pay, better care
Portugal
South Africa
Spain
- Titular: El PSOE pide la creación de un Observatorio de Igualdad que evite imágenes sexistas de Enfermería
Headline: PSOE calls for the creation of an Equality Observation mechanism that avoids sexist images of Nursing - Titular: Satse denuncia la “continua” desinversión en el SNS
Headline: Satse denounces "continued" divestment in the SNS - Titular: “En este encuentro vemos que es posible integrar a personas con discapacidad”
Headline: "In this meeting we see that it is possible to integrate people with disabilities" - Titular: Satse denuncia falta medidas para evitar riesgos con medicamentos peligrosos
Headline: Satse denounces lack of measures for avoiding risks with dangerous medicines - Titular: SATSE reclama al Sescam un protocolo de protección contra los medicamentos peligrosos
Headline: SATSE demands from Sescam a protection protocol against dangerous medicines - Titular: SATSE denuncia cientos expedients sin baremar en cajas para bolsa enfermería
Headline: SATSE denounces hundreds of un-assessed files in boxes for the nursing exchange - Titular: Paciente agrede a un enfermero en Urgencias del Juan Ramón Jiménez
Headline: Patient assaults a nurse in Juan Ramón Jiménez emergency room - Titular: Satse demanda un nuevo hospital de día oncológico
Headline: Satse demands a new day oncology hospital - Titular: Satse pide 15 enfermeras más para el Infanta Margarita
Headline: Satse asks for 15 more nurses for Infanta Margarita - Titular: ALCORCÓN/ SATSE exige que la bolsa de contratación del Hospital se ponga en marcha “lo antes posible”
Headline: ALCORCÓN / SATSE demands that the hospital hiring exchange be launched "as soon as possible"
Uganda
- Headline: Nurses' Union threatens another sit down strike
- Headline: Trade unions reject new government pay scale
United Kingdom
- Headline: Rise in attacks on NHS workers blamed on lack of staff and delays
- Headline: Two-thirds of NHS healthcare assistants doing nurses' duties, union finds
- Headline: Safe staffing research is 'needed to reveal the scale of the problem' in community settings
United States
- Headline: Dems and ‘single payer’ — a house divided?
- Headline: Proposition for Safe Patient/Nurse Ratios
- Headline: Nurses at Stanford’s ValleyCare Medical Center vote to unionize
- Headline: New Dayton VA director wants to be transparent for veterans
- Headline: Endorsement Roundup: Nurses for Elrich; Leggett for Dang, Katz
- Headline: Race Isn’t a Risk Factor in Maternal Health. Racism Is.
- Headline: West Virginia Teachers and the Return of Labor Feminism
- Headline: UCSF Health, John Muir Health to open non-emergency outpatient center in Berkeley
- Headline: Sanders raises $1.26 million for Senate re-election campaign
- Headline: Signing bonuses for up to $15,000 offered to nurses at 3 San Joaquin Valley hospitals
Venezuela
- Titular: Enfermeras del Periférico de Catia tomó las calles para denunciar crisis
Headline: Nurses from the Periférico de Catia took to the streets to denounce crises - Titular: Trabajadores del HCM se unieron a la jornada de protesta
Headline: HCM workers joined day of protest - Titular: Trabajadores de los hospitales protestaron en la calle por falta de insumos
Headline: Protests in front of the Domingo Luciani Hospital due to a humanitarian crisis