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International Nurse News Round-Up
New Zealand: The suicides, sackings and stressed staff of Tauranga Hospital
Angola
- Headline: Luanda nurses go on strike
- Headline: Nurses in Luanda threaten strike over unresolved grievances
Australia
- Headline: Health groups not sold on Tasmania budget
- Headline: 2018 Tasmanian budget: health groups react
- Headline: Claims mothers' hospital stays cut short due to severe shortage of NSW midwives
- Headline: Enough is Enough rally draws almost 300 protesters | photos
- Headline: New mums under pressure with significant midwife shortage in hospitals
- Headline: Queensland hospital workers are being attacked on the job
- Headline: Spat on, choked and threatened with razor blades: Shocking footage shows how Australia's nurses are being treated 'like punching bags' by violent patients
Brazil
- Manchete: Funcionários da Ebserh que atuam no HC-UFTM paralisam atividades por tempo indeterminado em Uberaba
Headline: Ebserh employees working at HC-UFTM indefinitely halt activities in Uberaba - Manchete: Sindicalista denuncia déficit de 60 enfermeiros no pronto Socorro e não descarta greve
Headline: Trade unionist denounces deficit of 60 ER nurses and does not rule out a strike
Canada
- Headline: Nurses run this clinic. It’s popular with patients — but can it survive?
- Titre: Entente de principe pour les infirmières du CISSS-AT
Headline: Agreement in principle for CISSS-AT Nurses - Titre: Un CHSLD en appel pour ne pas avoir plus d’employés
- Titre: Nouveau contrat de travail pour les infirmières de la région
Headline: New employment contract for nurses in the region - Headline: Health Care Has Its Own Barriers preventing Women From Reaching The Top
- Headline: Walk-in clinic to open at Concordia hospital in summer 2019
- Headline: Nursing homes must now report bedsores
- Headline: The hiring of nurses isn’t keeping pace with Quebec’s greying demographic
- Titre: Manifestations surprises à Mont-Laurier et Rivière-Rouge
Headline: Surprise events in Mont-Laurier and Rivière-Rouge - Titre: Faute de clinique, des ateliers sur la santé sont offerts à Montréal-Nord
Headline: Lacking a clinic, health workshops are offered in Montreal North
Colombia
Costa Rica
Honduras
- Titular: Enfermeros auxiliares recibieron los planes de retiros tras seis años de espera
Headline: Auxiliary nurses receive retirement plans after waiting six years - Titular: 280 enfermeras auxiliares serán contratadas para atender en 56 centros asistenciales
Headline: 280 auxiliary nurses will be hired to assist in 56 healthcare centers
India
- Headline: Kerala nurses to be taken back
- Headline: ‘No respect for us… The hospital was a mess while we were away’
Ireland
- Headline: Ambulance services facing strike threat as staff ballot for action
- Headline: Outpatient waiting list rises to new high
- Headline: No. Of people On Trolleys At Naas General Has Dropped.
- Headline: Overcrowding returns to A&E department at Tullamore Hospital
- Headline: Dail hears University Hospital Limerick is 'black spot for overcrowding'
- Headline: Mullingar Hospital one of the most overcrowded today
- Headline: INMO: May’s trolley figures were worst on record
- Headline: Hundreds admitted to hospitals with no available beds last month, figures reveal
- Headline: Nurses at Tipperary units vote for industrial action
Kenya
- Headline: pay nurses’ perks by end month, union tells county
- Headline: Mbagathi Hospital CEO sent home over ‘incompetence’
New Zealand
- Headline: Industrial action on cards as Ministry of Education pay rise offer for teachers falls short
- Headline: Christchurch Hospital building has 'high life-safety risk'
- Headline: INVESTIGATION: The suicides, sackings and stressed staff of Tauranga Hospital
Nigeria
- Headline: Doctor dresses patient’s wound, pours waste water on nurse
- Headline: JOHESU decries selective payment of salary
Panama
Peru
Philippines
Portugal
- Manchete: Manifestação em Beja exige mais enfermeiros no Baixo Alentejo
Headline: Demonstration in Beja requires more nurses in Baixo Alentejo - Manchete: Sindicato pede enfermeiros para Unidade de Saúde da Guarda
Headline: Union demands nurses for Guarda Health Unit - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros diz que adesão à greve no Hospital de Guimarães ronda 81 por cento
Headline: Nurses union says that adherence to the strike at Guimarães Hospital is around 81 percent - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros portugueses marca protesto para esta tarde junto à Urgência do Hospital da Guarda
Headline: Union of portuguese Nurses marks protest for this afternoon next to the Guarda Hospital emergency room - Manchete: Enfermeiros alertam para risco de degradação do serviço no Hospital de Guimarães
Headline: Nurses warn of risk of service degradation at Guimarães Hospital - Manchete: Enfermeiros em greve no Hospital de Santarém
Headline: Nurses on strike at Santarém Hospital - Manchete: Hospitais só contratam metade dos enfermeiros que saem
Headline: Hospitals only replace half of the nurses that leave - Manchete: SINDICATO DOS ENFERMEIROS PORTUGUESES RECLAMA O PAGAMENTO DO SUPLEMENTO REMUNERATÓRIO PARA TODOS OS ENFERMEIROS ESPECIALISTAS DA ULS DA GUARDA
Headline: portuguese Nurses Union Claims payment of Remuneratory Supplement to All Nurse Specialists of ULS Da Guarda - Manchete: Enfermeiros do Hospital de Santarém marcam três dias de greve
Headline: Nurses at Santarém Hospital mark strike’s third day - Manchete: Hospital de Santarém aguarda autorização para contratar cerca de 50 enfermeiros
Headline: Santarém Hospital awaits authorization to hire about 50 nurses
Slovenia
South Africa
- Headline: How privatisation versus nationalisation debate is on a fast track to nowhere
- Headline: [LISTEN] Staff shortages contributing to health crisis - Denosa
- Headline: [LISTEN] NURSES RESPOND TO NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL
- Headline: Cosatu calls on Ramaphosa to fire Motsoaledi
- Headline: #FSHealthCrisis: MEC addresses nurses
Spain
- Titular: Nueva crisis en Cantabria: los sindicatos, “indignados” por la supresión de la Enfermería escolar
Headline: New crisis in Cantabria: unions, "outraged" by the suppression of School Nursing - Titular: Satse valora de forma positiva el transcurso de la OPE andaluza de Enfermería
Headline: Satse positively values the Andalusian Nursing OPE course - Titular: Satse y el Colegio de Enfermería exigen la recuperación del equipo de enfermería suprimido en las Urgencias del Hospital de León
Headline: Satse and the College of Nursing demand the recovery of the nursing team suppressed in the Emergency Room of the Hospital de León - Titular: Enfermería, en contra de la privatización del seguimiento farmacéutico de pacientes crónicos
Headline: Nursing, against privatizating the pharmaceutical monitoring of chronic patients - Titular: Satse denuncia irregularidades en una bolsa de trabajo
Headline: Satse denounces job board irregularities - Titular: Satse critica que solo el 22% de enfermeras serán sustituidas este verano
Headline: Satse criticizes that only 22% of nurses will be covered this summer - Titular: Satse se reunirá con la Fiscalía para conocer las denuncias sobre la OPE
Headline: Satse will meet with the prosecutor's Office to hear complaints about the OPE - Titular: #EnfermeraConsellera, la nueva campaña de Satse en la Comunidad Valenciana
Headline: #EnfermeraConsellera, the new Satse campaign in the Valencian Community - Titular: Sindicatos sanitarios reclaman a Salud mejoras inmediatas en Málaga y la construcción del hospital
Headline: Health unions are calling for immediate improvements in Málaga and hospital construction - Titular: Los diez deberes de Satse a Carmen Montón
Headline: The ten duties of Satse by Carmen Montón - Titular: SATSE y ANPE critican "supresión" del programa piloto de enfermería escolar y piden a Mañanes que "recapacite"
Headline: SATSE and ANPE criticize "suppression" of pilot nursing program and ask Mañanes to "reconsider" - Titular: El SATSE presenta el manual de estilo ´La profesión enfermera, hoy´
Headline: SATSE presents the style manual, ‘The nursing profession, today' - Titular: Satse alerta "del grave deterioro" de los vehículos del Centro de Transfusión Sanguínea
Headline: Satse sounds the alarm on the "serious deterioration" of Blood Transfusion Center vehicles - Titular: Satse instalará dispositivos de ayuda para los más de 40.000 participantes en las oposiciones de enfermería del SAS
Headline: Satse will install assistance devices for the more than 40,000 participants in the SAS nursing examinations
United Kingdom
- Headline: SNP MSP who cares for patients in her spare time reveals 'Nursing is in my DNA - I can't give it up'
- Headline: patient experience tool highlights nurse staffing as factor
- Headline: The UK health tax hurting foreign nurses
- Headline: New NHS safety body ‘must avoid blaming individual nurses’
- Headline: Healthcare must be redefined as a safety critical industry, says RCN
- Headline: Nursing apprenticeships ‘must not repeat mistakes of past’, says RCN
- Headline: NHS pay deal 'overwhelmingly' rejected by GMB union members
- Headline: Agency spend down in Scotland but vacancies remain high
- Headline: Last day for nurses in England to vote on NHS pay proposals
- Headline: NHS Tayside ‘very worrying’ as more staff leaving than joining
- Headline: Scots NHS ‘staffing crisis’ as thousands of nurses quit
United States
- Headline: Fight for mandated nurse-to-patient ratios heats up
- Headline: California's nonprofit hospitals are providing significantly less charity care, report says
- Headline: Alhambra Hospital nurses authorize strike should negotiations fail
- Headline: Ohio hospitals are facing a ban on nurse overtime — here's how it could affect patients
- Headline: California nurses move closer to strike
- Headline: Nonprofit hospitals are being less charitable. They say that shows Obamacare is working
- Headline: Letter: Mandated nurse ratios improve patients' health
- Headline: Progressives take on regular Democrats in Maryland primaries
- Headline: California nurses call out state’s major nonprofit hospitals for charity cutbacks
- Headline: Enloe nurses ratify new contract
- Headline: California Influencers: What did we learn from the June primary election, and why?
- Headline: Community Hospital Task Force seeking new medical operator in wake of approaching lease deadline
- Headline: 50,000% markup for a shot makes the case for a single-payer healthcare system
- Headline: Calais hospital terminates management agreement with for-profit firm
Headline: Trump signs law to expand veterans' private health care options - Headline: Armed with defense dogs, providence Alaska Medical Center reports decrease in violence
- Headline: Hannah Zimmerman Is A Freshman at Stanford University — and New York’s Youngest Elected Official
- Headline: Feinstein to face fellow Dem in November
- Headline: Union nurse in chaotic Iowa Dem gubernatorial primary
- Headline: Outspoken legislator Erin Maye Quade endorsed as Erin Murphy's running mate in governor's race
- Headline: Maine hospital terminates management agreement with Quorum
- Headline: Letter to the editor: Mandated nurse-to-patient ratios reduces death rate
- Headline: Data: Central Texas facing nursing shortages by 2030