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International Nurse News Round-Up
Guatemala: Health professionals see minister's willingness to negotiate a new collective agreement
Australia
- Headline: Nurses’ industrial action over RAH emergency department on hold
- Headline: Nurses demand new legislation around aged-care staff ratio
- Headline: Call for action after Qld aged care report
- Headline: Queensland: Mother's Day Aged Care Audit Reveals Damning Results
- Headline: Aged care audit points to dangerous understaffing
- Headline: Queensland aged care standards often 'deplorable', nurses union says
- Headline: North Queensland hospitals benefit from increased graduate nursing numbers
- Headline: Safe staffing laws campaign 'will consider nurse-to-patient ratios'
Canada
- Headline: Nurses Need More Than Our Gratitude — They Need A Break
- Headline: Alberta health-care unions launch back safety campaign
- Headline: Nurse Practitioners to Prescribe Medication for Opioid Addictions
- Headline: Moncton nurses reflect on the essence of their job
- Headline: Sackville woman had significant influence on evolution of nursing in Canada
- Headline: McNeil not ready to improve staffing at Nova Scotia nursing homes
- Headline: Deaths from bedsores ‘highly preventable,’ says wound-care expert
- Titre: Soigner avec compassion, malgré la surcharge
Headline: Caring compassionately, despite the overload
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Piden hospitales sean prioridad de autoridades
Headline: Authorities asked to prioritize hospitals - Titular: Sector de enfermería de República Dominicana con los salarios más bajos América Latina
Headline: Nursing sector in Dominican Republic has the lowest salaries in Latin America
Fiji
France
- Titre: Certains infirmiers vont pouvoir prescrire des traitements
Headline: Some nurses will be able to prescribe treatments - Titre: Infirmiers : création d’un nouveau statut
Headline: Nurses: creating a new status - Titre: Les associations professionnelles et les syndicats mobilisés pour le 22 mai
Headline: Trade associations and unions mobilized for May 22 - Titre: Le personnel du Bariol entame une grève illimitée
Headline: Bariol staff begins an indefinite strike - Titre: Saint-Pierre: les infirmiers se mobilisent dans le bloc opératoire
Headline: Saint-Pierre: nurses mobilize in the operating room - Titre: Vidéosurveillance à l’hôpital : « Un gadget » ?
Headline: Hospital video surveillance: "A gadget"?
Guatemala
Honduras
- Titular: Enfermeras, listas vacunacion influenza AH1N1
Headline: Nurses, ready for vaccination against AH1N1 - Titular: Compromiso y responsabilidad exigen enfermeras auxiliares
Headline: Commitment and responsibility require auxiliary nurses
India
Ireland
- Headline: INMO Survey Reveals that 71% of Nursing Graduates Consider Leaving Ireland
- Headline: Nurses 'fearful' for Donegal patients
- Headline: INMO opens new education and event centre
- Headline: Summer trolley crisis hits Dublin, Offaly, Laois, Kildare hospital group
- Headline: Tullamore hospital the most overcrowded in Ireland according to nurse figures
- Headline: Nurse complaints about being attacked by patients ‘disappear into black hole’
Mexico
New Zealand
- Headline: New Zealand nurses mount nationwide protests
- Headline: Thousands of nurses to march for 'suffering workforce'
- Headline: Two assaults a week on mental health nurses
- Headline: Northland healthcare workers brave the rain to march
- Headline: Nurses march for better conditions
Paraguay
- Titular: Celebran día de la enfermería con severas precariedades
Headline: Celebrating nurses day with significant precariousness - Titular: “La enfermería es una profesión de lucha permanente”, afirman
Headline: "Nursing is a profession of permanent struggle," they affirm.
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
- Manchete: Enfermeiros protestam nas Caldas da Rainha contra precariedade e falta de profissionais
Headline: Nurses protest in Caldas da Rainha against precariousness and lack of professionals - Manchete: Enfermeiros do São João fazem duas horas de greve na quinta-feira
Headline: Nurses from São João strike for two hours on Thursday - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros denuncia prefeitura da Serra ao MPES
Headline: Nurses union denounces Serra prefecture to MPES - Manchete: São João admite reduzir camas e cirurgias por falta de enfermeiros
Headline: São João admits reducing beds and surgeries due to lack of nurses
South Africa
Spain
- Titular: Satse y Salud se reúnen para analizar la situación de la sanidad andaluza y abordar propuestas de mejora
Headline: Satse and Health Ministry meet to analyze the situation of Andalusian health and address improvement proposals - Titular: SATSE exige que se resuelvan las oposiciones de 2013-2015 del SAS
Headline: SATSE demands that the 2013-2015 SAS examinations be resolved - Titular: Malestar en el Satse por la interpretación de los médicos de la «gestión compartida de la demanda»
Headline: Satse unease due to the doctors' interpretation of "shared demand management" - Titular: Satse al Defensor del Pueblo: Implantación lenta y desigual de las especialidades de Enfermería
Headline: Satse to Ombudsman: Slow and uneven implementation of nursing specialties - Titular: El Satse y UGT critican los «contratos basura» de enfermería en Carlos Haya
Headline: Satse and UGT criticize nurses’ "garbage contracts" at Carlos Haya - Titular: ‘Rompe con los estereotipos’ es el lema de la campaña de SATSE-Jaén
Headline: 'Break with stereotypes' is the motto of the SATSE-Jaén campaign - Titular: Satse critica el colapso en reanimación
Headline: Satse criticizes the collapse in resuscitation unit - Titular: Denuncian falta de personal en el centro de salud de Toén
Headline: Denouncing the lack of personnel at the Toén health center - Titular: Satse denuncia la lista de espera de hasta dos años para la Unidad del Dolor
Headline: Satse denounces the nearly two year waiting list for the Pain Unit - Titular: El Sindicato de Enfermería denunciará hoy ante Urgencias la escasez de efectivos
Headline: Nurses’ union will denounce the personnel shortage at emergency rooms - Titular: Los sindicatos iniciarán movilizaciones si Osakidetza no paga la carrera profesional
Headline: Union will mobilize if Osakidetza does not pay for professional career development - Titular: Osakidetza se plantea recurrir la sentencia que le obliga a pagar 100 millones en pluses
Headline: Osakidetza plans to appeal ruling that requires it pay 100 million in bonuses - Titular: Satse pide al Defensor del Pueblo que exija al Gobierno la prueba de evaluación de competencia para Enfermería Familiar
Headline: Satse asks Ombudsman to require the government provide competence assessment tests for family nursing
Taiwan
Uganda
United Kingdom
- Headline: 'Three-quarters of public worried about nurse staffing'
- Headline: Nurse: 'I've been hit, head-butted and taken hostage'
- Headline: 'Legislation for safe staffing levels is desperately needed'
- Headline: Male nurse: 'I was told to become a brickie'
- Headline: Nursing union criticises trust plans to sell off key worker homes
- Headline: Prison nurses ‘becoming demotivated, stressed and burnt out’
- Headline: Royal College of Nursing finds nurse staff shortages at 'DANGEROUS' levels
- Headline: RCN leader 'demands' safe staffing legislation across UK in wide-ranging keynote speech
United States
- Titular: Luchadora social de primera línea pasa a dirigir poderoso Sindicato de Enfermeras
Headline: Longtime ‘Fighter’ Lands Top Spot In Powerful Nurses Union - Headline: Nurses at City of Hope Ratify Three-Year Contract
- Headline: EPA to Test Southeast Chicago Yards for Dangerous Neurotoxin
- Headline: Hospice nurses rally in Scarborough for new contract
- Headline: Health workers seek pay increase
- Headline: City of Hope nurses ratify three-year contract
- Headline: VA health system outperforming other providers, new study shows
- Headline: Primary victories for progressives in Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Idaho
- Headline: House approves plan to increase private sector care for veterans, fix VA funding crisis.