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International Nurse News Round-Up
Kenya: Attack on nurse opens door to troubling claims
Australia
- Headline: SA Employment Tribunal rules nurses' industrial action can go ahead
- Headline: Nursing home in Hobart too understaffed to feed its residents, audit finds
- Headline: Local member supports better patient to nurse ratios
- Headline: Health groups lobby candidates on climate impacts
Canada
- Titre: Les attentes sont élevées à l’endroit des ministres de la CAQ
Headline: Expectations are high for the CAQ Ministers - Titre: Implantation de ratios professionnels/patients à l’Hôtel-Dieu
Headline: Establishment of professional/patients ratios at Hôtel-Dieu - Headline: UPDATE: Health Unit nurses go on strike (4 photos)
- Headline: Mediated contract bargaining continues with Health Unit nurses
- Headline: Health Unit nurses remain on the picket lines
Dominican Republic
- Titular: Enfermeras del Semma reclaman aumento salarial
Headline: Semma nurses claim salary increase
Ireland
- Headline: Nurses reject pay proposals by huge majority
- Headline: INMO rejects pay proposals by 94% margin
- Headline: Almost 550 people waiting for hospital beds today
- Headline: Nurses vote to reject pay proposals
- Headline: UHG most overcrowded hospital nationwide
Kenya
- Headline: Attack on nurse opens door to troubling claims
- Headline: Woman attacks, strangles KNH nurse after her admitted son is pronounced dead
- Headline: KNH nurses down tools in protest against colleague's attack
- Headline: Give us security, KNH nurses ask after attack by deceased’s relative
New Zealand
- Headline: Urgent action needed to address 'desperate' aged care nursing shortages - industry body
- Headline: Pacific nurses see a bigger role in helping combat NCDs
- Headline: Waitangi Tribunal investigates sick, racist health system that 'fails Māori'
Portugal
- Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros desvaloriza nomes e lembra compromisso sobre carreira
Headline: Nurses union unconcerned with name and remembers career commitment - Manchete: Sindicato dos enfermeiros fala em adesão à greve superior a 70% a nível nacional
Headline: Nurses' union says adherence to strike over 70% at national level - Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros Portugueses saúdam aumento de 523 milhões na Saúde
Headline: Union of Portuguese Nurses welcomes increase of 523 million in Health - Manchete: Adesão à greve dos enfermeiros nos 100% em dezenas unidades funcionais do Porto, Viseu e Faro
Headline: Adherence to nurses' strike at 100% in dozens of functional units in Porto, Viseu and Faro
South Africa
Spain
- Titular: Denuncian la situación de una enfermera que tiene a su cargo a 22 pacientes
Headline: Protests over the situation of individual nurses in charge of 22 patients - Titular: Satse y Anpe reclaman la presencia de enfermeras en los centros educativos
Headline: Satse and Anpe demand the presence of nurses in educational centers - Titular: SATSE busca firmas para aumentar la plantilla de enfermeras en La Rioja
Headline: SATSE seeks signatures to increase the nursing staff in La Rioja - Titular: Satse alerta de contratos "precarios" de enfermeras en el Valme para "reducir listas de espera quirúrgica"
Headline: Satse warns of "precarious" nurses contracts nurses in Valme aimed at "reducing surgical waiting lists"
United Kingdom
- Headline: Hospitals 'plugging' shortages of nurses by using cheaper workers, experts fear
- Headline: Labour reveals 'savage' health visitor and school nurse cuts
- Headline: Nurses’ anger growing over pay offer
- Headline: Employers urged to tackle 'institutional racism' against nurses in the capital
United States
- Headline: Nurses at Tucson’s St. Joseph’s and St. Mary’s hospitals unionize
- Headline: Nurses from 17 HCA hospitals reach tentative labor deal
- Headline: D.C. Council approves emergency bill requiring permission for hospitals to close
- Headline: D.C. Council unanimously votes to stop Providence Hospital closure
- Headline: O’Rourke vs Cruz: The results in Texas will depend on turnout
- Headline: Clashing views on nurse staffing question
- Headline: D.C. Council pressures Bowser to intervene in Providence Hospital closure
- Headline: New labor deal for group of HCA nurses
- Headline: Johns Hopkins still interfering with union efforts despite NLRB case, nurse says
- Headline: Johns Hopkins nurse decries 'intense' anti-union campaign at hospital
- Headline: John Nichols: Leah Vukmir is peddling Donald Trump’s snake oil
- Headline: Progressives, Keep an Eye on These 10 Races
- Headline: Clashing views on nurse staffing question
- Headline: As vote looms, nurse staffing levels debated at hearing
- Headline: University of California healthcare workers schedule strike
- Headline: 39,000 health workers announce when they will picket UC medical centers statewide
- Headline: Murray County Medical Center nurse wins state association award
- Headline: Flier’s attack on Dean Phillips as ‘heartless’ is false
- Headline: Health care for all
- Headline: These 10 people want your vote for Bangor public office
- Headline: Should California’s next governor scrap high-speed rail?