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International Nurse News Round-Up
South Korea: Publicness and profitability collide in labor dispute at Chonnam National University Hospital
Australia
- Headline: Government agrees to develop nurse ratios framework
- Headline: Skills exodus after nurses walk from troubled aged care sector
- Headline: SA Liberals government told to own hospital crisis
- Headline: Health workplace review a chance to learn, and to heal
- Headline: Rally for nurse-patient ratios
- Headline: Melbourne woman speaks out about mum's aged care neglect
- Headline: Nurses union stages Goulburn rally on ratios | Photos
- Headline: NSW Premier rejects nurses' demand for higher nurse-to-patient ratios
Canada
- Headline: Thunder Bay public health nurses, health unit continue labour talks
- Headline: Influenza “Vaccinate or Mask” Policy Overruled Again By Arbitrator
- Headline: 1,200% surge in meth-related hospital visits tied to increased violence: Manitoba Nurses Union
- Headline: Nurses union raises red flag over proposed shift changes at HSC
- Headline: Election Day 26: senior care investments and poverty reduction promises
- Headline: New Brunswick passes workplace violence, harassment legislation
- Headline: Woman who put camera in mom's nursing-home room calls for more staff
Costa Rica
- Titular: Personal de oficinas centrales de la CCSS dejó sus escritorios y se fue a lavar la ropa hospitalaria
Headline: CCSS central office staff left their desks and went to wash hospital clothes - Titular: Ministerio de salud da orden sanitaria a los huelguistas para sacar ropa sucia de hospitales
Headline: Ministry of health gives sanitary order to strikers to remove dirty clothes from hospitals
Guatemala
- Titular: Ministerio de Salud inicia traslado de trabajadores por contrato a renglón permanente
Headline: Ministry of Health initiates transfer of workers by contract to permanent line - Titular: Hospital General San Juan de Dios otorgará plazas permanentes a 700 de sus trabajadores
Headline: General Hospital San Juan de Dios will grant permanent positions to 700 of its workers - Titular: MSPAS inicia traslado de primeros 700 trabajadores a renglón permanente
Headline: MSPAS initiates transfer of first 700 workers to permanent line
Ireland
- Headline: INMO warns of industrial action over pay demands and staff shortages
- Headline: Kilkenny hospital staffing levels 'at crisis point'
- Headline: Kilkenny nurses and midwives to protest against overcrowding
- Headline: Consultants warn industrial action over two-tier pay system more likely
- Headline: High levels of overcrowding at University Hospital hospital
Kenya
New Zealand
- Headline: Legislation another milestone in pay equity journey
- Headline: Unions celebrate Suffrage Day win for women
- Headline: Health Minister David Clark says he wants nurses to be more involved in policy making
- Headline: 'Most prized' Maori health award presented
- Headline: NZNO Young Nurse of the Year Award presented
Paraguay
- Titular: Gobierno revé tijerazo a trabajadores de salud y anuncia recategorización
Headline: Government reviewed cuts for health workers and announced recategorization - Titular: Levantan protesta y esperan respeto a recategorizaciones
Headline: They raise up protest and expect respect for recategorizations - Titular: Policía tongueó a las enfermeras en la protesta
Headline: Police stuck to the nurses in the protest - Titular: Función Pública reconsidera pedido de enfermeros
Headline: Public Service reconsiders request of nurses
Philippines/United States
Philippines
Portugal
- Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros diz que greve é para manter
Headline: Nurses Union says strike is to continue - Manchete: Greve dos enfermeiros com adesão de 75% a 80%, diz sindicato
Headline: Nurses strike with 75% to 80% adhesion, union says - Manchete: Doentes em macas nos corredores: Ordem dos Enfermeiros investiga urgência de São José
Headline: Patients on stretchers in corridors: Order of Nurses investigates Saint Joseph ER
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
- Titular: El sindicato de enfermería SATSE denuncia la "falta de compromiso" de Salud con las especialidades de enfermería
Headline: The nurses union SATSE denounces the "lack of commitment" by Health Ministry regarding the specialties of nursing - Titular: Salud dice que no ha reducido el número de plazas para formación de especialistas en Enfermería
Headline: Health says it has not reduced the number of places for training of specialists in Nursing - Titular: Satse: Si no se regula la prescripción antes de la gripe, habrá un "grave conflicto asistencial"
Headline: Satse: If the prescription is not regulated before the flu, there will be a "serious assistance conflict" - Titular: Satse y FEDE demandan la presencia enfermera en los centros educativos
Headline: Satse and FEDE demand the presence of nurses in educational centers - Titular: Los sindicatos SATSE y ANPE reivindican la figura de la 'enfermera escolar' y ven "falta de voluntad" para implantarla
Headline: The unions SATSE and ANPE claim the figure of the 'school nurse' and see "lack of will" to implement it
United Kingdom
- Headline: Number of nursing students in England down by 500 this year
- Headline: New RCN film to celebrate safe nurse staffing law in Wales
- Headline: RCN Wales members vote to accept pay deal
- Headline: Nurse-turned author calls for profession to be valued more
United States
- Headline: Universal healthcare was unthinkable in America, but not any more
- Headline: What to expect from The World Transformed
- Headline: Community hears arguments for, against Dignity Health merger
- Headline: EMMC nurses reach preliminary contract deal to be voted on Friday
- Headline: Nurses reach tentative deal with UC system
- Headline: EMMC nurses reach tentative contract agreement
- Headline: EMMC nurses reach tentative 3-year contract agreement
- Headline: California Nurses, University of California system reach tentative contract agreement
- Headline: 14,000 nurses and University of California reach tentative contract agreement
- Headline: Health-Care Industry Pumps Money Into Opposing Ben Jealous’ Medicare-For-All Push
- Headline: UC hospitals, nurses’ union have tentative five-year deal that may increase pay 15%
- Headline: Eastern Maine nurses reach tentative contract agreement
- Headline: Nurses Union at UCSD, Other Sites Reaches Labor Deal for 14,000
- Headline: California Nurses Association and university reach tentative agreement
- Headline: UC hospitals, nurses’ union have tentative five-year deal that would boost pay 15%
- Headline: Union Nurses Plan Informational Picket at Palomar Medical Center
- Headline: UC nurses set to vote on new five-year contract
- Headline: Union pickets Palomar Health hospitals
- Headline: Nurse wages rise across the region with UC, Kaiser, Dignity Health contracts
- Headline: Health care workers voice concerns about hospital staffing at Eureka City Council meeting
- Headline: Community hears arguments for, against Dignity Health merger
- Headline: Santa Cruz hospital affected by Dignity Health, CHI merger
- Headline: New Contracts For Area Nurses
- Headline: You asked: What to do about California’s housing shortage?
- Headline: The healthcare professional’s guide to giving: 15 ways to help the Southeast recover from Florence