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International Nurse News Round-Up
Honduras: Auxiliary nurses announce informational assemblies
Australia
- Headline: NSW Labor Party pledges better nurse to patient ratios
- Headline: Labor promises shift-by-shift nurse-patient ratios if they win state election
- Headline: NSW Labor renews commitment to regional nurse-patient ratios
- Headline: Nurses and midwives welcome shift-by-shift nurse to patient ratios
- Headline: NSW Labor commits to nurse to patient ratios if it wins 2019 NSW state election
- Headline: Nurse allegedly assaulted at Canberra's Dhulwa Mental Health Unit; union criticises Government response
- Headline: Goulburn nurses push patient ratios at conference
- Headline: ANMF (Vic) spruiks the Andrews Labor Govt and gets $1.1M for specialist training course for nurses
- Headline: Labor claims they will deliver on nurse ratios
- Headline: Luke Foley on the by-election campaign trail in Wagga
- Headline: Commitment to regional nurse ratios
Brazil
Canada
- Headline: UPDATED: Nurses wait for solution to Red Deer staffing woes
- Titre: Une ancienne infirmière auxiliaire dénonce une surcharge de travail à l'hôpital
Headline: Former nursing assistant denounces overwork at the hospital - Titre: Une pénurie d'infirmières à prévoir dans les hôpitaux du Bas-Saint-Laurent
Headline: Nursing shortage expected at Bas-Saint-Laurent hospitals - Headline: Thousands of Nurses Needed Across the Province
- Headline: Union hopeful for more Red Deer ER nursing hires after meeting with health minister
- Headline: AHS promises to fill 27 nursing positions at Red Deer hospital’s ER
Dominican Republic
Honduras
- Titular: Auxiliares de enfermería anuncian asambleas informativas
Headline: Auxiliary nurses announce informational assemblies - Titular: Unas 100 escuelas de enfermería operan de manera irregular
Headline: Some 100 nursing schools operate irregularly - Titular: Enfermeras auxiliares exigen nombramiento de 400 plazas
Headline: Auxiliary nurses demand appointment of 400 places
Ireland
- Headline: Medics’ unions warn of staff shortages
- Headline: Nurses and doctors await commission report on staff pay
- Headline: Listen: INMO Warns Overcrowding & Staff Shortages Are Putting Patients At Risk
- Headline: Nurses pursue talks with HSE over staffing levels
- Headline: Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH) was most overcrowded in the country this morning
- Headline: A&E overcrowding spikes again at Tullamore Hospital
Malta
Kenya
- Headline: Nurses in Tharaka-Nithi issue strike notice
- Headline: Crisis hits hospitals as workers stay away
- Headline: Elgeyo health workers issue strike notice after hardship pay cut
New Zealand
- Headline: Nurse deal: Accord signed to ensure safe staffing levels in hospitals
- Headline: Minister offers new accord over nurses staffing
- Headline: 'Healthcare is in crisis' - registered nurse talks staff burnout, safe staffing accord
- Headline: ‘People are getting burnt out’ – Registered nurse talks DHBs’ safe staffing accord
Nicaragua
- Titular: Dejan cesante a médicos que atendieron a manifestantes heridos
Headline: Doctors dismissed for attending to injured protesters - Titular: Médicos orteguistas alistan marcha
Headline: Medical surgeons join march
Portugal
South Korea
Spain
- Titular: SATSE reclama que se identifiquen los medicamentos peligrosos
Headline: SATSE calls for dangerous drugs to be identified - Titular: Satse a Montón: después de la universalidad, "hay que acabar con el copago"
Headline: Satse: after universality, "we must end co-payments" - Titular: SATSE: “Después del paso positivo del RD de universalidad, hay que acabar con el copago para los jubilados”
Headline: SATSE: "After the positive step of the RD on universality, we must end co-payments for retirees" - Titular: Satse pide a Sanidad que se identifiquen los medicamentos peligrosos
Headline: Satse asks Health Ministry to identify dangerous drugs - Titular: Satse critica la situación de "inseguridad" que soporta el personal sanitario en el Hospital de Linares
Headline: Satse criticizes the state of “insecurity" that exists among health staff at the Hospital de Linares - Titular: La odisea de trabajar en enfermería este verano
Headline: The odyssey of working in nursing this summer
United Kingdom
- Headline: Trainee nurses given 500 free tickets to Glastonbury 2019 amid staffing crisis
- Headline: Twelve-hour shifts leave nurses ‘too tired to cope’ with patients
- Headline: RCN to hold extraordinary general meeting over NHS pay deal
- Headline: Nursing Professor Angela Kydd: 12-hour shifts are 'dangerous' and lead to 'compassion fatigue'
United States
- Headline: Labor’s Power and the Medicare for All Struggle
- Headline: Nurses: Breastfeeding is Gold Standard of Nutrition
- Headline: Thanks to the Koch Brothers, We Have More Proof that Single Payer Saves Money and Cares for All of Us
- Headline: KOCH-BACKED THINK TANK FINDS THAT “MEDICARE FOR ALL” WOULD CUT HEALTH CARE SPENDING AND RAISE WAGES. WHOOPS.
- Headline: Even Libertarians Admit Medicare for All Would Save Billions
- Headline: How a libertarian analyst inadvertently made a good case for Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All
- Headline: Liberal Dems lay groundwork to push 'Medicare for all'
- Headline: ‘Invest and prioritize’: What to do about California schools
- Headline: ‘Get out! Get out!’ California wildfire evacuees tell of terror as blaze grew
- Headline: Hospital-associated bacterial species becoming tolerant to alcohol disinfectants
- Headline: Fox & Friends Poll Designed to Discredit Medicare for All Explodes in Their Face
- Headline: Does San Diego County have enough public health nurses?