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International Nurse News Round-Up
New Zealand: Nurses set to vote on new DHB offer - but they aren't happy
Australia
Canada
- Headline: Blend of innovation and frustration heard at CBC health-care forum
- Headline: Quebec government turning deaf ear to overtime hours: health-care workers union
- Titre: Des infirmières troublées à Argyll
Headline: Trouble for nurses at Argyll - Titre: Le CIUSSS se prépare à affronter un été difficile
Headline: CIUSSS is preparing for a difficult summer - Titre: « Il y a une difficulté et on y travaille », dit Gaétan Barrette
Headline: "There is a problem and we are working on it," says Gaétan Barrette - Headline: Workers who can make the difference between life and death need help, too
- Headline: Ontario Nurses Association calls on Ford to release full costed platform
- Headline: PC leader challenged to produce health care funding plan
- Headline: Ford defends his party’s lack of a fully costed platform
- Headline: Ford says he isn't breaking promise to release fully costed platform
- Headline: Nurse Disciplined for Unprofessional Posts on Social Media Loses Appeal
- Headline: Concordia, Seven Oaks emergency rooms to be closed by end of next summer
- Headline: Concordia ER closure coming in June 2019
Costa Rica
Ireland
- Headline: Concern over staffing levels in Mullingar
- Headline: Overcrowding continues at Tullamore Hospital with 11 on trolleys
- Headline: Summer hospital trolley crisis sees 100 patients waiting at Dublin, Kildare, Laois, Offaly hospitals
Kenya
New Zealand
- Headline: Nurses set to vote on new DHB offer - but they aren't happy
- Headline: Nurses, midwives have two weeks to vote on revised pay offer
- Headline: Nurses decide to strike after union vote among 27,000 members
- Headline: Nurses feel undermined
- Headline: Nurses to vote on DHBs' latest pay offer
- Headline: Nurses angry new pay deal announced to public
Peru
- Titular: Enfermería capacita a sus funcionarios en humanización y atención de calidad
Headline: Nursing trains its staff in humanization and quality care - Titular: Chimbote: enfermeras de “La Caleta” acatan paro en demanda de atención a su pliego de reclamos
Headline: Chimbote: "La Caleta" nurses strike to demand attention to their list of claims - Titular: ENFERMERAS DE HOSPITAL REGIONAL ACATAN PARO POR MEJORAS LABORALES
Headline: Regional hospital nurses strike for labor improvements
Portugal
- Manchete: Enfermeiros em greve admitem encerramento de serviços sem mais contratações
Headline: Nurses on strike vow to shut down services without further hiring - Manchete: Lei das 35 horas e falta de enfermeiros podem encerrar serviços dos hospitais
Headline: 35-hour law and shortage of nurses may terminate hospital services - Manchete: Greve de enfermeiros no Hospital Pedro Hispano com 83% de adesão - sindicato
Headline: Nurses' strike at Pedro Hispano Hospital with of 83% membership - union - Manchete: Hospital Garcia de Orta desmente despedimentos de enfermeiros
Headline: Garcia de Orta Hospital denounces dismissal of nurses - Manchete: Enfermeiros do Rovisco Pais, Tocha, em protesto contra "crónica carência" de pessoal
Headline: Nurses of Rovisco Pais, Torch, protest against "chronic shortage" of personnel - Manchete: Ambulância do INEM incendeia-se dentro do hospital de Torres Novas
Headline: INEM ambulance burns inside Torres Novas hospital
South Africa
- Headline: DENOSA WANTS MOTSOALEDI TO STEP DOWN OVER CHARLOTTE MAXEKE PROTEST COMMENTS
- Headline: Hospital cans surgeries due to strike
- Headline: 'KZN premier must listen to striking health workers and fire Dhlomo'
Spain
- Titular: Nueve de 10 estudiantes de Enfermería creen que aún hay estereotipos retrógrados sobre su profesión
Headline: Nine out of 10 nursing students believe that there are still retrograde stereotypes about their profession - Titular: Satse exige a Amazon que deje de comercializar "cientos de productos con una imagen sexista de las enfermeras"
Headline: Satse calls for Amazon to stop marketing "hundreds of products with a sexist image of nurses" - Titular: SATSE denuncia la humillación a la que la administración somete a Enfermería
Headline: SATSE denounces administration subjecting nurses to humiliation - Titular: ANPE y SATSE consideran indispensable la figura de la enfermera escolar en los centros educativos de Castilla-La Mancha
Headline: ANPE and SATSE consider school nurses indispensable in the educational centers of Castilla-La Mancha - Titular: Satse denuncia que les obligan a trabajar “en situación de riesgo”
Headline: Satse denounces that they are forced to work "in risky situations" - Titular: Las enfermeras no llevan cofia ni minifalda ni parecen actrices porno
Headline: Nurses do not wear a cap or miniskirt or look like porn actresses - Titular: Satse lamenta el inicio "de improviso" de la contratación para plan de verano del SAS y "sin actualizar" la Bolsa Única
Headline: Satse laments the "unexpected" start of the contract for the SAS summer plan and "not updating" the Bolsa Única - Titular: SATSE denuncia recortes de personal en la unidad de cuidados críticos del Clínico
Headline: SATSE denounces cuts in clinic’s critical care unit - Titular: Satse denuncia el comportamiento de la gerencia del Regional por las vacaciones
Headline: Satse denounces behavior of Regional management over holidays - Titular: Condenan al CHUO a recalcular la jornada laboral de una enfermera
Headline: CHUO sentenced to recalculate nurses’ work days - Titular: Satse unifica en una guía los tratamientos para las principales dolencias de los menores extranjeros
Headline: Satse organizes treatment guide for main ailments afflicting foreign minors - Titular: El Sindicato de Enfermería condena la 'normalización' del cierre de camas en verano
Headline: Nurses’ union condemns the 'normalization' of bed closures in summer
United Kingdom
- Headline: Number of patients readmitted to hospital rises to 1.38m in a year
- Headline: Rising readmissions indicate problems with older patient care
- Headline: Unbelievably poor turnout on vote over NHS Pay
- Headline: Trusts turning to bank nurses over agencies to fill vacancies
- Headline: Patients will suffer as NHS deficit spirals out of control
- Headline: ‘We need a strong leader now more than ever'
United States
- Headline: Single-payer’s big test: can Medicare-for-all win in competitive House districts?
- Headline: Puerto Rico death toll after hurricanes at least 4,645, not 64
- Headline: Amid Divisions Big and Small, Real and Exaggerated, the Battle for Control of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Rages
- Headline: American health-care workers are committing suicide in unprecedented numbers
- Headline: Nurses condemn legislation that will endanger Veterans
- Headline: Cuyahoga County's Jail Nursing Director Criticized Leadership Last Week for a Staffing Shortage. This Week, He Was Removed From the Job
- Headline: Union nurse in chaotic Iowa Dem gubernatorial primary
- Headline: Labor Roundup | June 2018
- Headline: It’s time to acknowledge that strikes work
- Headline: Bill improving hospital patient safety passes Senate
- Headline: 'My truly sick patients' safety was at risk:' Overworked nurses seek burnout relief
- Headline: Lawmakers remain largely silent on reports of Puerto Rico’s staggering death toll