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International Nurse News Round-Up
Headline: Israeli nurses’ union calls for strike after patient stabs nurse at hospital
Australia
- Headline: Nurses union targets NSW govt on ratios
- Headline: Goulburn nurses pledge action over patient loads
- Headline: Illawarra nurses' fight for mandated ratios to heat up
- Headline: Work bans hit maternal health services
- Headline: Launceston General Hospital ticks off 199 areas as part of scheduled accreditation process
- Headline: ANMF escalates industrial action at Launceston General Hospital
- Headline: Intimidating hospital culture could be risking patient care
- Headline: Townsville Hospital to introduce extra security after nurse assaults
Brazil
Canada
- Headline: Nurses union launches grievance over staffing at Red Deer hospital
- Headline: 27 new nurse positions needed to fix 'chronic understaffing' at Red Deer hospital ER, union says
- Headline: Red Deer emergency department experiencing nurse shortage
- Headline: Nurses union prez says government didn't consult nurses about hospital closures
- Headline: Nurses union raises overtime alarm at St. Boniface
- Headline: N.L. nurses’ union head optimistic about future plan for nurse practitioners
- Titre: Les infirmières votent en faveur de leur nouveau contrat de travail
Headline: Nurses vote in favor of new work contract - Titre: «Nous voulons des conditions à la hauteur de notre profession», lance le président du syndicat
Headline: "We want conditions that live up to our profession," says union president - Titre: Entente de principe pour les professionnels en soins
Headline: Agreement in principle for healthcare professionals - Headline: Addressing violence against health care workers
- Headline: Union files grievance over ER nursing shortage in Red Deer
- Headline: Nurses and AHS far apart on staffing concerns
- Headline: Nurse says St. Boniface Hospital staff facing burnout with overtime situation that's 'worst I've ever seen'
- Headline: Nurse union raises alarm over increasing mandatory OT
- Headline: More nurses would help fill healthcare gaps: report
- Headline: Nurses rally for better addictions treatment
- Headline: Premier booed while unveiling hospital closures, expansions in Cape Breton
- Headline: How Cape Breton's health-care overhaul could woo new doctors
- Headline: Health practitioners question new ER hours at Montague hospital
Chile
India
- Headline: SASSOON NURSES TO GO ON STRIKE
- Headline: Health workers strike for safer working conditions
- Headline: More nurses for RIMS
Ireland
- Headline: Nurses at University Hospital Kerry protest against overcrowding
- Headline: 37% Increase In Trolley Numbers At Region’s Main Hospital
- Headline: Attacks on nurses rising and figures ‘don’t tell entire story’
- Headline: Limerick trolley crisis worst in the country
Israel
- Headline: Israeli nurses’ union calls for strike after patient stabs nurse at hospital
- Headline: Nurses hold nationwide strike to protest violence against medical staff
- Headline: ISRAEL: NURSES WENT ON STRIKE
- Headline: Nurses strike in protest of increasing violence
- Headline: Health Services Throughout Israel Shut Down in Protest Against Violence Faced on the Job
- Headline: Israeli Nurse in Moderate Condition After Stabbing by Asylum Seeker
Kenya
Headline: Bomet nurses call off strike following deal
Malta
- Headline: Nurses’ union apologises to patients as it says strike was a ‘total success’
- Headline: GWU tells nursing aides, other health workers not to carry out nurses’ duties during strike
- Headline: Nurses’ industrial action suspended as meetings expected over the weekend - Health Minister
- Headline: Health Minister will meet nurses’ union ahead of industrial action
- Headline: Nurses to take industrial action on July 5
- Headline: Nurses’ union industrial directives to commence on Thursday
New Zealand
- Headline: Will Kiwi nurses accept the DHBs latest pay offer?
- Headline: Editorial: Nurses deserve our support
- Headline: Middlemore Hospital emergency department nurses wearing security alarms as violence surges
- Headline: Patient safety 'paramount' during strike
Nigeria
Paraguay
Philippines
- Filipino: Dagdag-rekisitos sa pag-renew ng lisensiya, idinaing ng grupo ng nurses
Headline: Licensing renewal is required, by a group of nurses - Headline: Kapos sa sahod: Nurses group seeks salary hike
Portugal
- Headline: Overtime strike by nurses prompts closure of some departments, beds
- Headline: Nurses launch one-day strike
- Headline: Nursing union cites strike participation rates of 70% to 90%
- Manchete: Hospitais privados e sindicato dos enfermeiros firmam acordo
Headline: Private hospitals and nurses' union sign agreement - Manchete: Greve dos enfermeiros com adesão de 70 a 90%, diz sindicato
Headline: Nurses strike with 70-90% adherence, union says - Manchete: Hospitais do SNS com redução de 53 enfermeiros entre Abril e Maio
Headline: SNS hospitals experience a reduction of 53 nurses between April and May - Manchete: Enfermeiros em greve contra discriminação no Hospital de Braga
Headline: Nurses on strike against discrimination at Braga Hospital
South Korea
South Africa
- Headline: Do healthcare workers have the right to strike?
- Headline: Health workers say they are undervalued and poorly equipped
- Headline: Nurses force hospital to hire more staff after patient death
Spain
- Titular: El Sindicato de Enfermería pide personal sanitario en los colegios asturianos
Headline: The Nursing Union calls for health workers in Asturian schools - Titular: Las autonomías siguen sin apostar por la Enfermería escolar
Headline: The autonomous sections continue without school nursing positions - Titular: Piden que haya una enfermera escolar en cada centro educativo
Headline: They ask that there be a school nurse in each educational center - Titular: El Sindicato de Enfermería critica la falta de enfermeros en los colegios
Headline: Nursing union criticizes the lack of nurses in schools - Titular: Sindicato de enfermería pide implantar una enfermera en cada escuela
Headline: Nursing union asks to place a nurse in each school - Titular: El SATSE advierte de riesgo de desatención si siguen los recortes en el hospital
Headline: SATSE warns of risk of inattention if cutbacks continue in the hospital - Titular: Concentración de Satse para reclamar las 35 horas semanales para enfermería
Headline: Satse’s concentration on demand for 35 hour work week for nurses - Titular: Un juzgado reconoce a una enfermera interina el cobro de carrera profesional
Headline: Court recognizes interim nurses with professional career charge - Titular: Satse alerta sobre la reducción de contratos para el verano y la disminución de la actividad quirúrgica
Headline: Satse raises alarm on the reduction of contracts for the summer and the decrease in surgical activity
United Kingdom
- Headline: Nursing and the NHS: A brief history of the key events
- Headline: 'Cuts leave scars': thousands join protest over NHS funding
- Headline: Safe staffing guidance issued on children’s hospital wards, neonatal settings and urgent care
- Headline: Patients at risk on wards ‘due to staff crisis’
- Headline: Life as an NHS nurse in the 1980s: ‘Nursing requires a particular personality’
- Headline: To degree or not to degree: that is NOT the question for UK nursing
- Headline: Welsh nurses to receive 6.5% pay rise with new pay deal
- Headline: What the NHS Wales pay rise really means for nurses, midwives and other healthcare employees
- Headline: NHS Wales: EU recruits still needed after Brexit
United States
- Headline: California has the world’s fifth-largest economy. Fix taxes to fix wealth disparity
- Headline: Nurses accuse Johns Hopkins Hospital management of anti-union violations
- Headline: Nurses at Johns Hopkins allege hospital is impeding their efforts to unionize
- Headline: Hopkins Nurses Claim Hospital Is Union-Busting
- Headline: On Eve of NHS 70th Anniversary, Thousands March in U.S., U.K. to say ‘Healthcare is a Human Right!’
- Headline: A Dagger in the Heart of Workers and Our Democracy: What's Behind the Janus Court Ruling
- Headline: Research Medical Center nurses protest against staffing shortages, high turnover
- Headline: More than 100 picket with Research Medical nurses, who seek better wages, retention
- Headline: Nurses March on ICE, Child Internment Camps to Say ‘Zero Tolerance’ Immigration Policy is a Public Health Crisis
- Headline: California Democrats, nurses blast Supreme Court blow to labor unions; Trump hails as victory
- Headline: NURSES UNION DECRIES SUPREME COURT DECISION ON PUBLIC-SECTOR UNIONS
- Headline: Supreme Court ruling on union fees could shift healthcare politics
- Headline: With Janus, the Court Deals Unions a Crushing Blow. Now What?
- Headline: SF labor groups, elected officials say Supreme Court decision on union fees will harm workers rights
- Headline: Defiant unions vow to organize even more after Janus ruling
- Headline: Siding With Billionaires Against Workers, Supreme Court's Janus Ruling 'An Assault on Labor Movement'
- Headline: Will the Janus Supreme Court Decision Affect S.F.?
- Headline: Chicago Teachers Union uses Janus case to blast Rauner, Emanuel
- Headline: Unions across SoCal react to Supreme Court decision over fees
- Headline: Supreme Court Decimates Public Union Power
- Headline: A Dagger in the Heart of Workers and Our Democracy: What's Behind the Janus Court Ruling
- Headline: When robots take California jobs, what happens next?
- Headline: Emergency Rooms Run Out of Vital Drugs, and Patients Are Feeling It
- Headline: Protesters: Kids separated from parents are pawns
- Headline: Dealt a body blow by the Supreme Court, unions ponder: Where do we go from here?
- Headline: Cuomo Backs Nurses On Staffing Minimums
- Headline: Nursing shortage prompts St. Louis hospital to offer summers off
- Headline: Exclusive: Nurse Speaks Out Over Johns Hopkins’ ‘Anti-Union Campaign’
- Headline: Nurses accuse Johns Hopkins hospital of impeding union
- Headline: Letter to the editor: What is the cost of staffing shortages?
- Headline: Nurses At Research Medical Center Protest Staffing Amid Contract Negotiations
- Headline: Movement gears up to stop Trump Supreme Court pick
- Headline: Labor in motion against ICE
- Headline: Ben Jealous’s Victory Is Proof the Democratic Party’s Left Flank Is Winning Concrete Power
- Headline: Let Them Know: ¡Niños, No Están Solos!
- Headline: Johns Hopkins trying to block unionization, nurses charge
- Headline: Bakersfield Residents Rally For Reuniting Immigrant Families
- Headline: Supreme Court ruling on public union dues hits Minnesota labor groups
- Headline: What does Supreme Court union ruling mean for Minnesota?
- Headline: ‘I can’t afford that’: A viral tweet shows why we need Medicare for all
Venezuela
- Headline: Venezuelan Doctors Back Nurses’ Demand for Pay Hikes
- Titular: Huelga indefinida de enfermeras en los hospitales de Caracas
Headline: Indefinite strike of nurses in Caracas hospitals - Titular: Enfermeros de “brazos caídos” en el Hospital Central de Valera
Headline: Nurses with "fallen arms" in the Central Hospital of Valera - Titular: Enfermeras en paro nacional indefinido en todo el país
Headline: Nurses on indefinite national strike throughout the country