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International Nurse News Round-Up
Argentina: Nurses will march on demand for salary improvements and unification of fees
Argentina
Australia
- Headline: Budget: New measures welcome but long-term fix needed, say stakeholders
- Headline: 'Big nursing home' industry is aggressively minimising tax
- Headline: Pleas for Royal Adelaide Hospital discharge lounge ignored
- Headline: Locals invited to march for improved aged care standards
- Headline: Royal Adelaide Hospital overcrowding 'putting lives at risk'
- Headline: Queensland Nurses and Midwives’ Union (QNMU) holds march for aged care standards in Bundaberg
- Headline: Unions march for their rights around Qld
Canada
- Headline: Midweek podcast: Where is the pharmacare debate heading?
- Headline: Tom Parkin: Andrea Horwath is the new centre of Ontario politics
Brazil
- Manchete: Enfermeiros repudiam prefeitura por convocação para dia ‘D’ de vacinação
Headline: Nurses repudiate prefecture by summons for 'D' vaccination - Manchete: ENFERMEIROS FARÃO UMA PARALISAÇÃO DE 24 HORAS NO DIA 15
Headline: Nurses will hold 24-hour strike on the 15th
Canada
- Headline: PARKIN: We don't have pharmacare for one reason — greed
- Headline: Nurses cry foul over exclusion from PTSD legislation, some blame sexism
- Headline: Pharmacare good for patients and public health
- Headline: IWK Health Centre sees spike in emergency visits
- Headline: Health-care unions reach tentative proposal with IWK, health authority
- Headline: Minister Delorey meets nurses at Cumberland regional hospital
- Headline: Advocacy group presses N.S. government to ban private plasma companies
- Headline: SUN Applauds Media Lockout from Hospitals Following Tragedies
- Headline: Increase in violence at hospitals triggers security review
- Headline: Manitoba Nurses Union chooses new president
- Headline: Huron County Health Unit Celebrates Nursing Week
- Titre: Ratios infirmière-patients : Québec testera 10 nouveaux projets pilotes
Headline: Nurse-Patient Ratios: Quebec Will Test 10 New Pilot Projects - Titre: Régine Laurent de la FIQ s'entretiendra des problèmes du système de santé
Headline: Régine Laurent of the FIQ will discuss problems of the health system - Titre: Jugé dangereux, le CLSC de Chicoutimi-Nord ferme ses portes
Headline: Judged dangerous, the CLSC of Chicoutimi-Nord closes its doors - Titre: Plus d'infirmières pour les patients
Headline: More nurses for patients - Titre: Des médecins payés pour superviser les «superinfirmières»
Headline: Doctors paid to supervise "super nurses"
Dominican Republic
Guatemala
Honduras
- Titular: Profesionales de la enfermería anuncian paro de labores a nivel nacional
Headline: Nursing professionals announce work stoppage at national level - Titular: Enfermeras inician paro en demanda de más personal
Headline: Nurses start strike in demand of more staff - Titular: Profesionales de la enfermería abortan el paro de labores
Headline: Nursing professionals abort work stoppage
Ireland
- Headline: INMO to ballot for strike action if pay not improved
- Headline: 70% of new nurses may emigrate
- Headline: Failures in assessing elderly patients, INMO conference hears
- Headline: Simon Harris: Nurses’ pay claim is legitimate
- Headline: Human rights leader attacks lack of respect and dignity for victims
- Headline: Brexit could drive exodus of Irish medical staff to UK, expert warns
- Headline: INMO delegates vote to strike if pay not increased
- Headline: INMO to ballot for strike action if pay not improved
- Headline: Nurses in ‘utter despair’ warn of a strike vote for better pay
- Headline: Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation warns government that nurses will strike unless pay is increased
- Headline: 'Worse than a cattle mart' - INMO hit out at treatment of elderly patients
- Headline: Nurses facing probes ‘stressed and suicidal’
- Headline: Nurses and midwives will strike next year if pay and conditions are not tackled, INMO warns
- Headline: Harris accepts recruitment and retention of nurses is an issue
- Headline: INMO: No. Of People On Trolleys At Naas General Has Increased By 100%.
- Headline: Simon Harris: Nurses’ pay claim is legitimate
- Headline: 'There's a relentless focus on us in the media': Why it's so hard to retain midwives
- Headline: Failures in assessing elderly patients, INMO conference hears
Kenya
- Headline: Tharaka Nithi health services stalled following nurses' sacking
- Headline: In Tharaka-Nithi, no services at 8 dispensaries after axing of 96 nurses
- Headline: Trade unions, ministry clash over amendments to labour laws
New Zealand
- Headline: 'Nurse Flo' galvanises support around the country
- Headline: Nurses, midwives and heath care workers vote on proposed July strike action
- Headline: Rotorua nurses protest working conditions as part of nationwide rally
Nigeria
Philippines
- Headline: Duterte signs executive order vs illegal ‘endo’
- Headline: Health workers seek pay increase
South Africa
- Headline: Denosa blames corruption for NW health crisis
- Headline: Patients sleep on floors at hospitals
Spain
- Titular: SATSE lanza la campaña 'Rompe con los estereotipos' para acabar con la imagen sexista y retrógrada de la enfermería
Headline: SATSE launches the 'Break with stereotypes' campaign to end the sexist and retrograde image of nursing - Titular: SATSE presenta su Manual de Estilo para dar a conocer mejor la labor de las enfermeras
Headline: SATSE presents its Style Manual to make the work of nurses better known - Titular: SATSE ve «caos» en la gestión de las oposiciones del Servicio Andaluz de Salud
Headline: SATSE sees "chaos" in the management of the oppositions of the Andalusian Health Service - Titular: SATSE pide duplicar el número de matronas en la plantilla del Servicio Canario de Salud
Headline: SATSE asks to double the number of midwives in the staff of the Canary Islands Health Service - Titular: SATSE denuncia escasez de matronas en las zonas rurales de Navarra
Headline: SATSE denounces shortage of midwives in rural Navarra - Titular: SATSE denuncia que los profesionales del Hospital de Ciudad Real están "desbordados"
Headline: SATSE denounces that the professionals of the Ciudad Real Hospital are "overwhelmed" - Titular: El Regional tiene a 660 enfermeros, la mitad de su plantilla, sin estabilidad
Headline: The Regional has 660 nurses, half of its staff, without stability - Titular: Satse denuncia que el personal interino cobra con retraso
Headline: Satse denounces that the interim staff charges are late - Titular: SATSE entrega 400 firmas al gerente del hospital Infanta Margarita solicitando incremento de profesionales en las plantas de hospitalización
Headline: SATSE delivers 400 signatures to hospital manager Infanta Margarita requesting an increase in professionals in the hospitalization facilities - Titular: Amenaza de huelga sanitaria si no se recuperan los salarios del 2010
Headline: Threat of health strike if wages are not recovered in 2010 - Titular: El SATSE lanza una campaña para romper estereotipos sexistas de la enfermería
Headline: SATSE launches a campaign to break sexist stereotypes of nursing - Titular: SATSE critica irregularidad en contrataciones de la Agencia Bajo Guadalquivir
Headline: SATSE criticizes irregularity in Bajo Guadalquivir Agency contracting - Titular: SATSE quiere acabar con los estereotipos sexistas de la Enfermería
Headline: SATSE wants to end the sexist stereotypes of Nursing - Titular: Satse ve «caos» en la gestión de las oposiciones del SAS
Headline: Satse sees "chaos" in SAS opposition management - Titular: Una legión de vida en la enfermedad
Headline: A multitude of life within the disease
Taiwan
Uganda
United Kingdom
- Headline: Exclusive: ‘Critical time’ for nurse workforce, warns RCN leader
- Headline: The numbers that explain the nursing crisis in the UK
- Headline: Excessive nurse workload linked to higher patient safety risk
United States
- Headline: Longtime ‘Fighter’ Lands Top Spot In Powerful Nurses Union
- Headline: Bernie Sanders Has a Sweeping Plan to Expand Union Rights and Workplace Democracy
- Headline: Nurses Have a Prescription for the Democratic Party: Back Single Payer
- Headline: Bernie Sanders introduces Senate bill protecting employees fired for union organizing
- Headline: Nurses’ campaign for Medicare for All gets boost from Sanders
- Headline: Violence Against Nurses: Casualties of Caring
- Headline: Prominent nurses union names first ever Latina executive director: 5 things to know
- Headline: Interview: The state of medical care from a nurse’s point of view during national nurses week
- Headline: California nurses push for a single payer health bill
- Headline: UC Workers on Strike
- Headline: Two California Bills Seek to Cut Costs By Diverting Uninsured, Medi-Cal Patients Away From Nurse Care. It’s Not Okay.
- Headline: SRMC health care workers vote to join union
- Headline: Nurses To Picket Alongside Striking University Of California Workers
- Headline: Talks stalled, UC strike to begin Monday morning
- Headline: Picket line grows to 1,400 at UC Davis hospital as two unions add support
- Headline: Other unions representing UC workers plan to join AFSCME in solidarity strike
- Headline: They're called 'co-pay accumulators,' and they're a way insurers make you pay more for meds
- Headline: Number of picketers swells on Day 2 of UC strike
- Headline: UC workers strike continues for second day
- Headline: Nurses To Picket Alongside Striking University Of California Workers