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International Nurse News Round-Up
Paraguay: Nurses demand professionalization of their work
Australia
- Headline: NSW Labor Party pledges better nurse to patient ratios
- Headline: 'Get me my f---ing gun': how security collapsed at Canberra Hospital
- Headline: Older Victorians set to benefit from million dollar training boost
- Headline: More industrial action at the Launceston General Hospital
- Headline: Older Victorians will benefit from Andrews Government investment
Canada
- Headline: Updated: Red Deer emergency department nurses calling for more hiring
Titre: Le CISSS des Laurentides s’entend avec la FIQ - Headline: CISSS des Laurentides agrees with FIQ
Titre: L’épuisement des infirmières, infirmières auxiliaires et inhalothérapeutes - Headline: The exhaustion of nurses, nursing assistants and respiratory therapists
- Headline: Nurses’ union seeks meeting with health minister to resolve staffing crisis in Red Deer
- Headline: MacLauchlan sees gains for P.E.I. from meeting of Canadian premiers
Dominican Republic
Ireland
- Headline: Nearly 400 people on trolleys in country’s hospitals
- Headline: Letterkenny Hospital has highest waiting list for patient admissions
- Headline: University Hospital Limerick endures major levels of overcrowding
Kenya
- Headline: Bomet medics to stop work over salary delay
- Headline: Why Nyamira County is on its sick bed
Malta
New Zealand
- Headline: Nurses to vote on revised pay offer with 'significant improvements'
- Headline: Nurses' union recommends DHBs' latest offer
- Headline: Minister offers new accord over nurses staffing
Paraguay
Peru
- Titular: Enfermeras anuncian paro de 24 horas para la próxima semana
Headline: Nurses announce 24-hour strike for next week - Titular: Minsa y Federación de Enfermeras inician mesa de diálogo
Headline: Minsa and Federation of Nurses start a dialogue
Portugal
- Manchete: Enfermeiros em greve entre 13 e 17 de agosto
Headline: Nurses on strike between August 13 and 17 - Manchete: Médio Tejo | Deputados do BE e CDU preocupados com estado da saúde na região
Headline: Middle East | Deputies from BE and CDU concerned about health status in the region
South Africa
- Headline: Nurses are 'forced to be escorts' on long trips
- Headline: Addington nurses residence in ‘appalling’ state
Spain
- Titular: Petición para pagar 600€ al mes a Enfermería por exclusividad en la pública
Headline: Petition to pay 600€ per month to nurses for working exclusively for the public - Titular: Sólo en un año los enfermeros españoles han presentado más de 1.600 denuncias por agresiones
Headline: In just one year, Spanish nurses have presented more than 1,600 complaints of assault - Titular: Llamamiento enfermero a Sanidad y CCAA para acelerar el RD de prescripción
Headline: Nurses call for Health Ministry and CCAA to accelerate the royal decree on prescriptions - Titular: Satse exige al SAS la devolución inmediata de "los recortes" al personal sanitario que "parecen haber sido olvidados"
Headline: Satse demands the SAS immediately return "cuts" to health personnel that "seem to have been forgotten" - Titular: Así es la definitiva Oferta de Empleo Público del SESCAM para 2018
Headline: The definitive SESCAM Public Employment Offer for 2018 - Titular: SATSE critica la "ridícula" cifra de la OPE de Salud dada la "enorme temporalidad"
Headline: SATSE criticizes the "ridiculous" Health OPE figure given the "enormous temporality" - Titular: Satse pide el cese del gerente de Atención Primaria de Salamanca por su «nociva y dañina gestión»
Headline: Satse calls for the dismissal of Salamanca’s primary care manager for his "dangerous and harmful conduct"
United Kingdom
- Headline: Regulator signals its ‘commitment’ to new fairer culture on fitness to practise
- Headline: Britain sizzles through hottest day of year
- Headline: NHS increasingly desperate for nurses and midwives as applications continue to fall
- Headline: NHS in England facing deepening staffing crisis, figures show
- Headline: Nurses ‘exhausted, sick and dizzy’ amid heatwave
- Headline: Nurse and midwife shortage: NHS needs more than 11,000 extra healthcare workers as nearly a fifth more job posts are empty than 3 years ago
- Headline: More Than 87,000 NHS Jobs Were Vacant At The Start Of 2018
- Headline: They’ve given an inch but we need a mile
- Headline: Government response to MPs’ nursing workforce inquiry described as 'missed opportunity'
United States
- Headline: Local nurses picketing to protest staffing issues at Bay Area Hospital
- Headline: Nurses protest nurse turnover outside of Corpus Christi Medical Center
- Headline: Local nurses protest staffing concerns at Bay Area Hospital
- Headline: Nurses picket South Texas hospital to plead for better contracts, more staffing
- Headline: Nurses picket Las Vegas hospital, saying short staffing is rampant
- Headline: Federal unions push back against 'chaos'
- Headline: Single-Payer Advocates in Congress Double Down With Medicare for All Caucus
- Headline: ‘Profit has no place’: Lawmakers accelerate Medicare for All push
- Headline: Fawcett nurses picket for contract
- Headline: ‘Profit has no place’: Lawmakers accelerate Medicare for All push
- Headline: Look at Canada, not UK, for single-payer example
- Headline: Should California back down on its sanctuary state law?
- Headline: Erin Murphy: 2018 Election Guide