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International Nurse News Round-Up
Brazil: Nurses of Acari Hospital protest on Brazil Avenue against the lack of payment
Australia
- Headline: Want to improve care in nursing homes? Mandate minimum staffing levels
- Headline: Mental health Royal Commission will save and improve lives
- Headline: Tasmanian woman waits six months to have gangrenous foot amputated
Brazil
Canada
- Headline: Vaccinate-or-mask policy struck down by Ontario arbitrator
- Headline: Nurses Rally For Healthcare Changes
- Headline: Nursing staff thankful to be back to work at Port Perry hospital
- Headline: Public sector pension changes coming when legislature resumes, Alberta premier says
- Headline: Nurses union president on obstetric nurse shortage
- Titre: La ministre de la Santé évoque des compressions, puis corrige le tir
Headline: Minister of Health discusses cuts and corrections - Titre: Le Québec compte plus de 75 000 infirmières dont 70 489 occupent un emploi en soins infirmiers et ce n’est pas assez!
- Headline: Quebec has more than 75,000 nurses, 70,489 of whom are employed in nursing care, and that's not enough!
- Titre: La ministre McCann évoque des compressions en santé puis corrige le tir
Headline: Minister McCann discusses healthy cuts and fixes
Honduras
- Titular: Enfermeras del Hospital San Felipe se paralizan por incumplimiento de Salud
Headline: Nurses at San Felipe Hospital strike over noncompliance by Health Ministry - Titular: Por déficit de recurso humano enfermeras del Hospital San Felipe realizaron paro de labores
Headline: Due to lack of human resources, nurses from San Felipe Hospital carried out work stoppages - Titular: Por segundo día consecutivo se mantiene la toma en Hospital Mario Mendoza
Headline: For the second consecutive day, occupation of Mario Mendoza Hospital Continues - Titular: Paralizadas las labores en el hospital siquiátrico Mario Mendoza
Headline: Strike at Mario Mendoza psychiatric hospital
Ireland
- Headline: Health Minister open to meeting nurses to avert industrial action
- Headline: INMO: There Are 3 Patients On Trolleys At Naas General Hospital.
- Headline: Limerick And Galway University Hospitals The Busiest In The Country
New Zealand
- Headline: Indigenous nurses take charge of health strategy
- Headline: The next new role in general practice gathers momentum, but some sceptical
Paraguay
- Titular: Enfermeras marcharon exigiendo mejores condiciones de trabajo
Headline: Nurses marched demanding better working conditions - Titular: Gremio de enfermería marcha y pide escalafón salarial
Headline: Nursing union marches and asks for salary scale - Titular: Enfermeras de todo el país marcharán por el microcentro buscando formalizar el sector
Headline: Nurses from all over the country will march through the microcenter looking to formalize the sector - Titular: “Marea blanca”: enfermeros reclaman escalafón salarial
Headline: "White tide": nurses demand salary scale
Peru
- Titular: Ministerio de Salud exhorta a médicos a deponer el paro nacional convocado para mañana
Headline: Ministry of Health urges doctors to overturn the national strike called for tomorrow - Titular: Médicos y enfermeras van hoy huelga nacional
Headline: Doctors and nurses go on national strike today
Portugal
- Manchete: Greves. Os principais setores a paralisar o país
Headline: Strikes. The main sectors to paralyze the country - Manchete: Sindicalistas: os agitadores contra Costa
Headline: Trade unionists: the agitators against Costa
South Africa
Spain
- Titular: Satse: "Seremos el primer país del mundo en el que las enfermeras prescriban con todas garantías"
Headline: Satse: "We will be the first country in the world in which nurses prescribe with all guarantees" - Titular: Satse recogerá firmas en Navarra para una ley que establezca un número máximo de pacientes por enfermera
Headline: Satse will collect signatures in Navarra for a law that establishes a maximum number of patients per nurse - Titular: SATSE CyL demanda en Soria más plantillas para que Enfermería y Fisioterapia puedan investigar
Headline: SATSE CyL in Soria demands more templates for nurses and physiotherapist to study - Titular: Satse critica la "escasez" de matronas en el Hospital Virgen del Puerto de Plasencia
Headline: Satse criticizes the "shortage" of midwives in the Virgin of Puerto de Plasencia hospital - Titular: Satse alerta de los recortes de personal en la unidad de cirugía pediátrica del Reina Sofía
Headline: Satse warns of personnel cuts in the pediatric surgery unit of Reina Sofía - Titular: El IB-Salut reconoce a las enfermeras la comunicación de incidencias como tiempo de trabajo
Headline: The IB-Salut recognizes the communication of incidents by nurses as working time - Titular: Contratos «precarios» en el Valme para reducir las listas de espera
Headline: "Precarious" contracts utilized in Valme to reduce waiting lists - Titular: Sanidad y Satse, enfrentados por el acceso de farmacéuticos a los domicilios
Headline: Health Minister and Satse, face issue of pharmacist access to homes - Titular: SATSE Madrid denuncia la falta de mantenimiento en los hospitales: "se rompe otra cañería en el Hospital Ramón y Cajal"
Headline: SATSE Madrid denounces the lack of maintenance in hospitals: "another pipe is broken in the Ramón y Cajal Hospital"
United Kingdom
- Headline: Wage cut for Royal Free nurses delayed after staff threaten no-show
- Headline: ‘NHS can’t function without them’ - Hospital data reveals reliance on EU workers amid Brexit fears
- Headline: Nurse recruitment campaign travels north
United States
- Headline: Democrats back Medicare for all in about half of House races they're contesting
- Headline: Nurses at Tucson's St. Joseph's and St. Mary's hospitals unionize
- Headline: California nurses move their ‘Medicare-for-all’ fight to the national stage
- Headline: In 'Historic' Shift—and Catching Up With Voters—225 Democrats Running for Congress in 2018 Back Medicare for All
- Headline: Democrats back Medicare for all in about half of House races they're contesting
- Headline: If Democrats Want to Mobilize Young Voters, They Need to Wholly Embrace Medicare for All
- Headline: Lean left: is America ready for a wave of Bernie Sanders-inspired socialists?
- Headline: Nurses from 2 Arizona hospitals vote to unionize
- Headline: UC healthcare workers launch three-day strike over pay, outsourcing and insurance premiums
- Headline: Influencers list Jerry Brown’s greatest successes, failures
- Headline: Keith Ellison says he backs Lori Swanson's insulin lawsuit