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International Nurse News Round-Up
Australia: Gloves off as state election looms
Australia
- Headline: Gloves off as state election looms
- Headline: NSW opposition leader Luke Foley spoke about nurses- and midwives-to-patients ratio in regional areas during a visit to Taree
- Headline: Labor promises better nurse-patient ratios in North Coast hospitals
- Headline: Labor leader Luke Foley joins Upper Hunter candidate Martin Rush at Singleton Hospital for major announcement
- Headline: NSW opposition leader Luke Foley spoke about nurses- and midwives-to-patients ratio in regional areas during a visit to Taree
- Headline: Labor leader Luke Foley joins Upper Hunter candidate Martin Rush at Singleton Hospital for major announcement
- Headline: Janet Anderson pulls out of Canberra Health Services top job
- Headline: Janet Anderson pulls out of Canberra Health Services top job
- Headline: Elderly woman in nursing home room no better than a prison cell
- Headline: Government agrees to develop nurse ratios framework
- Headline: Launceston nurses struggling to guarantee ‘safe and adequate care’, says union
- Headline: Goulburn Base Hospital sees surge in emergency presentations
- Headline: Port Macquarie Base Hospital records improved patient times through its emergency department
- Headline: New figures show a marked increase in ED presentations
Brazil
- Manchete: Pesquisas refletem “fadiga” de bloco Governista após quase 12 anos!
Headline: Surveys reflect "Fatigue" of the Governing bloc after almost 12 years! - Manchete: SEESE participa de assembleia conjunta com sindicatos da saúde para discutir projeto de lei sobre a FHS
Headline: SEESE participates in joint meeting with health unions to discuss FHS bill - Manchete: Seese fiscaliza maternidade Nossa Senhora de Lourdes
Headline: Seese supervises maternity at Our Lady of Lourdes - Manchete: Trabalhadores comemoram adiamento de projeto da FHS
Headline: Workers celebrate postponement of FHS project - Manchete: Diversas categorias pedem estabilidade para os servidores da FHS
Headline: Several categories call for stability for FHS servers - Manchete: SEESE recebe Prêmio Vip de Educação Superior
Headline: SEESE receives Vip Prize for Higher Education - Manchete: Ofício aos deputados solicita modificações na PL 98/2018
Headline: Letter to Members requesting amendments to PL 98/2018
Canada
- Headline: NDP call for increase in nursing home staffing
- Titre: Un meilleur sort pour les infirmières
Headline: A better fate for nurses - Headline: N.S. appoints expert panel to recommend ways to improve long-term care
- Headline: Quebec election: CAQ vows to abolish mandatory overtime for nurses
- Titre: Examen des infirmières : Blaine Higgs promet une procédure équitable
Headline: Nurses Review: Blaine Higgs Promises Fair Process - Headline: OPTIMISTIC FOR NURSES’ CONTRACT: PIERCY
- Headline: STRIKE LOOMS AT HEALTH UNIT
- Headline: N.S. appoints panel on long-term care: 'It's been ignored for far too long'
- Headline: P.E.I. unions advocate on Labour Day for universal drug program and reversing EI split zone
- Headline: ONA wins second arbitration against hospitals on ‘vaccinate or mask’ policy
- Titre: « Été catastrophique » au CIUSSS
Headline: "Catastrophic summer" at CIUSSS - Titre: Négociations au point mort au CIUSSS
Headline: Crashing negotiations at CIUSSS - Headline: Toronto hospitals can’t force unvaccinated nurses to wear masks, ruling says
- Headline: 'Vaccinate or mask' ruling prompts London hospitals to review policies
- Headline: HEALTH UNIT NURSES ONE STEP CLOSER TO STRIKE
- Headline: WRHA shifting surgeries, mental health services between hospitals
- Headline: Doctors, nurses join election debate on improved health care
Costa Rica
- Titular: Sindicato de médicos se suma a huelga contra plan fiscal que inicia próximo lunes
Headline: Doctors’ union joins strike against fiscal plan that starts next Monday - Titular: Empleados de salud marchan a la Asamblea Legislativa
Headline: Health employees march to the Legislative Assembly - Titular: Cirugías sufrieron mayor afectación en hospitales
Headline: Emergency Rooms experience greater effects in hospitals
Ghana
Guatemala
- Titular: Trabajadores de la Salud aceptan aumento salarial del gobierno
Headline: Health workers accept government salary increase - Titular: Sindicato de Salud acepta propuesta de incremento salarial
Headline: Health worker union accepts salary increase proposal - Titular: Sindicato mayoritario de Salud acepta propuesta de un bono
Headline: Majority of health union accepts bonus proposal - Titular: Ministerio de Salud presenta nueva propuesta salarial
Headline: Ministry of Health presents new salary proposal
Honduras
Ireland
- Headline: Poor nurses' pay led to Ireland's trolley crisis, INMO claims
- Headline: INMO: HSE has no plan for extra patients in winter
- Headline: Nurses will have to choose between taking the money or taking action
- Headline: HSE seeks ‘new ideas’ as trolley numbers hit 8,000
- Headline: INMO: HSE has no plan for extra patients in winter
- Headline: Ireland's pay rates are not pushing more nurses, midwives and doctors to work abroad - report
- Headline: INMO: We cannot fill more than 1,000 nursing posts because of pay rates
- Headline: INMO: Pay is 'number one issue' affecting recruitment of nurses and midwives
- Headline: Nurses demand action on overcrowding in protest at hospital
- Headline: Protesting nurses and midwives across Republic of Ireland demand staffing boost
- Headline: Nurses To Protest At UHL Over ‘Intolerable’ Conditions
- Headline: Nurses to stage lunchtime protests in Cork and Limerick
- Headline: 'We can't go on like this' - nurses protest at conditions
- Headline: Hospitals dependent on non-EU nurses, INMO claims
- Headline: Nurses: 'No emergency plan in place for this winter'; protests planned
Kenya
- Headline: Hospitals remain closed due to shortage of personnel
- Headline: Nurses strike over pay, but county says issue resolved
- Headline: Medics down tools to force resignation of CEO accused of assault
New Zealand
- Headline: Nurse strangled at hospital; staff issued with camera vests
- Headline: Accord over nurses staffing signed: ‘It is the end of this vicious cycle of severe under-funding‘
- Headline: Bay of Plenty District Health Board silent on questions into culture report
- Headline: 50 patients, one nurse: Coroner's findings show high caseload for Waikato mental health nurse
- Headline: Southland nurse recognized for contribution to service
- Headline: DHBs put out 'Help Wanted' sign, as nursing labour market tightens
Paraguay
- Titular: Enfermeros se movilizan frente a Secretaría de la Función Pública
Headline: Nurses are mobilized in front of the Ministry of Public Administration - Titular: Enfermeras se manifiestan exigiendo a la Función Pública no anular concurso
Headline: Nurses protest to demand the Public Function not to annul contest - Titular: Policías reprimen con fuerza a enfermeras que se manifiestan frente a la SFP
Headline: Police forcefully repress nurses who demonstrate in front of the SFP
Philippines
Portugal
- Manchete: Lisboa e Vale do Tejo tem em falta 1500 enfermeiros
Headline: Lisboa and Tagus Valley lacking 1500 nurses - Manchete: Enfermeiros. Sindicatos excluídos pela FENSE vão pedir abertura de negociações com Governo
Headline: Nurses. Unions excluded by FENSE will ask to open negotiations with government
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
- Titular: SATSE Castilla y León denounces irregularities in the labor calendars of Area nurses
Headline: SATSE Castilla and León denounce irregularities in area nurses’ work schedules - Titular: Satse denuncia los cambios en los calendarios laborales de las enfermeras
Headline: Satse denounces changes in nurses' work schedules - Titular: El sindicato Satse exige al SCS que nombre «urgentemente» a un equipo directivo de Enfermería de Atención Primaria
Headline: The Satse union requires SCS to "urgently" name a Primary Care Nursing management team - Titular: Satse, sobre el EIR: "El desarrollo de las especialidades sigue siendo insuficiente y desigual"
Headline: Satse, on the EIR: "The development of specialties is still insufficient and unequal" - Titular: Satse vincula la farmacia comunitaria con recortes de plantilla en Primaria
Headline: Satse links community pharmacies with cuts in staff in Primary care - Titular: Satse no quiere servicios asistenciales en farmacias
Headline: Satse does not want welfare services in pharmacies - Titular: Las enfermeras rurales del área de León recorren un millón de kilómetros al año para prestar la asistencia sanitaria
Headline: Rural nurses in the León area travel a million kilometers a year to provide health care - Titular: Satse alerta de que las vacunas de la gripe no tienen dispositivos de bioseguridad
Headline: Satse warns that flu vaccines do not have biosecurity devices - Titular: Concentración en el Hospital Comarcal pidiendo más respeto a los sanitarios tras las últimas agresiones
Headline: Concentration in the Regional Hospital asking for greater regard for health workers after the latest aggressions - Titular: Satse denuncia ante la Inspección irregularidades de los calendarios laborales de las enfermeras de Área
Headline: Irregularities in work schedules for Area Nurses Reported for Inspection - Titular: "Hay que denunciar y visibilizar las agresiones a los sanitarios"
Headline: "We must denounce and make visible the aggressions against health workers" - Titular: SATSE insiste: hay "maltrato" del Sergas al personal de Enfermería del PAC de A Gudiña
Headline: SATSE insists: there is "abuse" in the Galician healthcare system towards PAC of A Gudiña Nursing staff - Titular: El sindicato Satse exige al SCS que nombre «urgentemente» a un equipo directivo de Enfermería de Atención Primaria
Headline: The union Satse demands the SCS to "urgently" name a Primary Care Nursing management team - Titular: Satse exige "celeridad" en la resolución de las oposiciones del SAS
Headline: Satse demands "speed" in the resolution of the SAS exams - Titular: Los sindicatos exigen que médicos de fuera de Euskadi controlen las OPE de Osakidetza
Headline: Unions demand that doctors from outside Euskadi control the OPE of Osakidetza
United Kingdom
- Headline: Strike threat after union calls pay offer a ‘slap in the face’
- Headline: Quarter of UK student nurses drop out before graduation, study finds
- Headline: One in four nurses drop out before graduating, new research reveals
- Headline: Scottish nurses stretched to ‘BREAKING POINT’ as post vacancies reach highest EVER
- Headline: RCN launches campaign to boost Scottish nurse workforce
- Headline: London mayor backs campaign to tackle nursing shortages
- Headline: NHS staff left very anxious over 'backdoor privatisation' plans
- Headline: NHS staff vacancies rise nearly 10% in three months amid unfolding ‘national emergency’, report shows
- Headline: NHS vacancies a 'national emergency'
United States
- Headline: In Pursuit of Social Justice, Unions are the Answer
- Headline: Verity Health bankruptcy challenged by employee unions
- Headline: Bulk of Providence Hospital Board Abruptly Fired Amid Closure Fiasco
- Headline: Why Dignity nurses are challenging merger with Catholic health care giant
- Headline: Nurses at many HCA hospitals say they are willing to strike over pay, staffing, security
- Headline: 7K nurses at 15 HCA hospitals vote to authorize strike
- Headline: Port Charlotte hospital nurses participate in vote calling for strike
- Headline: Blake Medical Center nurses vote to strike if they don’t get a new deal soon
- Headline: Nurses at 4 Tampa Bay area hospitals authorize strike
- Headline: Nurses vote to authorize possible strike
- Headline: Florida Nurses At HCA Hospitals Prepare To Strike
- Headline: Proposed nurses strike at Research and Menorah could postpone some surgeries
- Headline: Nurses threaten strike at Fawcett Memorial Hospital
- Headline: More than 1,000 Kansas City nurses at Research, Menorah threatening strike
- Headline: Florida Nurses At HCA Hospitals Prepare To Strike
- Titular: Enfermeras de HCA están presionando sobre el pago, el personal, la seguridad
- Headline: HCA nurses are pushing on wages, staff, security
- Headline: Public can weigh in on proposed Dignity Health-CHI hospital merger
- Headline: Threatened nurses strike could hit HCA hospitals in KC
- Headline: Deal could bring hospital back to Massillon's former Affinity Medical Center
- Headline: Unions front and center at State Fair
- Headline: Duluthians Celebrate Labor Day At Annual Bayfront Picnic
- Headline: MNA Nurses Awarded Back Pay For Health Care Contract Violation
- Headline: Candidates take part in Labor Day festivities
- Headline: With a single sentence, Obama moves Medicare for all into the political mainstream
- Headline: Get out of your bubble, do your homework — and no yelling: How to survive the election
- Headline: Provider Groups Hit Back at California's Death Certificate Project
- Headline: Reluctant or revved up? ‘Chuy,’ Toni, Susana mum as they hurtle toward collision
- Headline: Thanks, Obama?
- Headline: Nurses At Research and Menorah Hospitals OK Strike
- Headline: Nurses claim staffing crisis at 2 California hospitals
- Headline: Nurse's union claims St. Joe's staffing shortage risks patient lives, hospital responds
- Headline: California Nurses Association honors Astraia Muir
- Headline: Dignity Health denied nurses overtime pay, lawsuit alleges
- Headline: UC Berkeley study finds link between hospital consolidation, higher prices for patients
- Headline: 44th annual Solano Avenue Stroll gathers families, politicians and protestors
- Headline: NURSES RAISE FUNDS FOR HUMBOLDT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES IN HONOR OF NURSE ASTRAIA MUIR
- Headline: Health care workers protest staffing cuts at St. Joseph, Redwood Memorial hospitals
- Headline: St. Joseph Health lays off dozens of employees in Humboldt, chief executive responds
- Headline: Speaking out at St. Joe’s: National Union of Healthcare Workers calls for action
- Headline: UC nurses set to vote on new five-year contract
- Headline: UC hospitals, nurses’ union have tentative five-year deal that would boost pay 15%