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International Nurse News Round-Up
Israel: Nurses strike at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in protest of violence against medical personnel, July 4, 2018 (Courtesy Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital)
Australia
- Headline: State invests $8.1 million to recruit a further 80 nursing, midwifery and support positions according to HNEH
- Headline: Unions ramp up industrial action at Launceston General Hospital
- Headline: Nurses united in fight for better working conditions
- Headline: Labor pledges to boost nurse-to-patient ratios at Wyong Hospital
- Headline: Treasurer meets with unions over wage negotiations for nurses and midwives
- Headline: Union concerns over LGH pressures acknowledged by Health Minister
- Headline: Industrial action will continue at Launceston General Hospital, says union
- Headline: Unions urge members to opt out of MyHealth Record
- Headline: Donato calls for one nurse for every four patients as a minimum in NSW
- Headline: Labor commitment to nurse staffing a move in right direction - Alldrick
- Headline: Unions file High Court challenge to NSW electoral funding laws
Canada
- Headline: Staffing issues at long-term care homes known to province for years, Wettlaufer inquiry hears
- Headline: New deal for Ontario nurses
- Headline: Premier says health-care agreement respects government's ability to pay
- Headline: Mediator's report settles simmering dispute between N.S. Health Authority, unions
- Titre: Des infirmières de l'Hôpital de Gatineau se disent prises en otage
Headline: Nurses at the Gatineau Hospital say they are being held hostage - Titre: Le financement de la santé et de l'éducation tire de l'arrière en Outaouais, selon une étude
Headline: Funding for health and education lags behind in Outaouais, study finds - Titre: Le CISSS des Laurentides s’entend avec la FIQ
Headline: The Laurentides CISSS gets along with FIQ - Titre: Les professionnelles en soins de santé de l'Ouest-de-l'île-de-Montréal parviennent à une entente
Headline: Health care professionals from West Island of Montreal reach an agreement
Honduras
- Titular: Empleados se toman el Hospital del Tórax de Tegucigalpa
Headline: Employees occupy Thorax Hospital in Tegucigalpa - Titular: Centros hospitalarios de la zona Atlántica cuenta con nuevo personal de enfermería
Headline: Hospital centers in the Atlantic area have new staff nurses - Titular: Salud busca “depurar” deducciones en planillas
Headline: Health ministry seeks to "debug" payroll deductions - Titular: Salud suspende deducciones por planilla de cuotas sindicales y gremiales
Headline: Health Ministry suspends payroll deductions for union dues
Ireland
- Headline: ‘Startling’ number of patients waiting for hospital beds in August
- Headline: Sláintecare: Doctors warn of capacity issues and urge resources now
- Headline: 2,600+ fewer nurses now than in 2007
- Headline: Overcrowding crisis at Naas Hospital
- Headline: More than 500 patients on hospital trolleys - a rise of 80% in a month
- Headline: INMO Concerned Sláintecare Will Fail Without Addressing Staff Crisis
Israel
- Headline: Nurses Strike in Response to Violence Towards Healthcare Workers
- Headline: Nurses go on strike over violence against medical staff
- Headline: Nurses to go on strike beginning Tuesday morning
- Headline: Nurses Across Israel to Strike in Protest of Violence Against Hospital, Medical Workers
- Headline: Israeli Nurses to Strike, Protesting Violence Against Medical Personnel
- Headline: Marathon Talks Underway to End Israel-wide Nurses Strike Over Workplace Violence
- Headline: Health Ministry, nurses union reach deal to end strike
- Headline: STRIKE ENDS AS NURSES REACH AGREEMENT WITH GOVERNMENT
- Headline: Nurses call strike over violence against medical staff
Kenya
- Headline: Bomet nurses storm Laboso's office over delayed salaries
- Headline: Health workers to down tools over withdrawal of allowance
- Headline: Laboso assures workers over pay delay
- Headline: Congestion at Kisii hospital as medics' strike in Nyamira enters third month
Mexico
- Titular: Marchan trabajadores de salud en Puebla
Headline: Health workers march in Puebla - Titular: En un 30-40% el déficit de médicos y enfermeros en BC
Headline: A 30-40% shortage of doctors and nurses in BC
New Zealand
- Headline: Nurses agree to DHB pay offer, putting an end to strike action threat
- Headline: Nurses accept fifth pay offer, ending a year of negotiations
Portugal
- Manchete: Sindicatos dos enfermeiros unidos nas "formas de luta" a partir de Setembro
Headline: Nurses’ union united in "forms of struggle" beginning in September - Manchete: Greve de enfermeiros com adesão de 81% no S. José
Headline: Nurse strike with 81% adherence in S. José - Manchete: Bloco operatório do IPO de Coimbra parado devido a greve dos enfermeiros
Headline: Operations at Coimbra IPO stopped due to nurses' strike
South Africa
- Headline: South Africa: Clinics Close and Medicine Runs Out in the North West As State Owes Millions
- Headline: Nurses threaten to swap uniforms for pyjamas if allowances not paid
Spain
- Titular: Satse reclama que se identifiquen los medicamentos peligrosos
Headline: Satse demands that dangerous drugs be identified - Titular: SATSE pide acabar con el copago
Headline: SATSE demands an end to co-payments - Titular: Satse denuncia ante la Inspección de Trabajo al Clínico
Headline: Satse complaint before the Clinic’s Labor Inspector - Titular: Sindicato enfermería denuncian falta de fisioterapeutas en la sanidad pública
Headline: Nursing Union denounce lack of physiotherapists in public health - Titular: Tampoco hay trabajadores de enfermería para cubrir bajas y vacaciones
Headline: There is not enough nursing staff to cover leave and vacations
Uganda
United Kingdom
- Headline: Fears for NHS as apprenticeships fail to plug gaps left by Brexit brain drain
- Headline: Autistic patient punched staff nurse in 'understaffed' ward in Cedar House in Canterbury
- Headline: Amin Abdullah: Nurse who set himself on fire 'unfairly dismissed'
- Headline: Male nurses spearhead recruitment drive in Scottish schools
- Headline: London nurse who killed himself after being sacked was 'treated unfairly', finds review
- Headline: ‘Proper breaks and access to drinking water is the law’
United States
- Headline: Union Power is On the Rise, From Missouri to West Virginia
- Headline: New Scorecard Shows Only 12 House Democrats Have Fully Embraced Game-Changing Progressive Agenda
- Titular: Protestan enfermeras en exterior de hospital
Headline: Nurses protest outside hospital - Headline: West Anaheim hospital staff call one-day strike Thursday over wages
- Headline: Santa Rosa passes spending plan for housing bond
- Headline: Pay teachers more. Get rid of the duds. How to cultivate top-notch educators in California?
- Headline: Nurse staffing levels impact quality of care, study finds