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International Nurse News Round-Up
Photo: SAPO
Australia
- Headline: Moree aged care nurses renew push for mandated staffing ratios
- Headline: Care at Tasmania's sole mental health facility for elderly 'severely compromised' by staffing crisis
- Headline: Healthy promises: 'The devil is always in the detail'
- Headline: We are 'Not Glad Gladys' says a gathering of union members in Belmore Park
- Headline: NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association hosts afternoon rally at Muswellbrook to demand better ratios in health system
- Headline: Nurses back Labor's nurse to patient ratio plan
- Headline: Muswellbrook District Hospital nurses host afternoon rally to demand better ratios in health system
Canada
- Headline: Quebec College of Physicians announces new powers for nurse practitioners
- Titre: CIUSSS MCQ : les professionnelles en soins dénoncent le temps supplémentaire obligatoire
Headline: CIUSSS MCQ: healthcare professionals denounce mandatory overtime - Headline: Public health nurses 'disappointed' with final offer
- Headline: Ontario Nurses’ Association Calls Final Offer Disappointing
- Headline: Ontario Health Minister reveals major health care overhaul with new super agency
- Headline: Strike deadline looming for public health nurses in Windsor Essex
- Headline: Local public health nurses could hit the picket lines in two weeks
- Headline: Health care overhaul: Providers unsure what Tories plan will mean in reality
- Headline: Grand River details ‘deep’ cost-cutting plan — 40 nursing positions to go
- Headline: Questions raised over NDP event at CRH
- Headline: Nurse practitioners touted as answer to ER closures
- Headline: Recruitment, retention, retirements, workload amongst concerns for nurses, says union president
Honduras
India
- Headline: Govt agrees to regular services, hospital employees end stir
- Headline: Mohindra, Preneet face strong protest from nurses
- Headline: Cops convince nurses to end hunger strike
Ireland
- Headline: INMO: 20 People Are Being Treated On Trolleys At Naas General Today
- Headline: Government holds first talks with nursing unions on new contract
- Headline: Nurses open talks over pay deal as paramedics strike
- Headline: Trolley crisis: Seventy patients wait for a bed in country's most overcrowded hospital
- Headline: Highest level of overcrowding in 2019 recorded at University Hospital Limerick
Kenya
- Headline: Counties in trouble over nurses' pay
- Headline: Hundreds of nurses from West Pokot sacked for participating in strike
- Headline: KNUN issues another nurses strike notice
- Headline: Nurses’ strike off, promotions pledged
- Headline: Narok nurses call off strike after talks bear fruit
New Zealand
- Headline: Fears changes at Dunblane will compromise care
- Headline: Nurses fear mental health funding boost for Canterbury won't make staff safer
Portugal
- Manchete: A luta dos enfermeiros não para e o governo não cede
Headline: The nurses' struggle does not stop and the government does not give in - Manchete: Hospital de Braga tem autorização para contratar 75 enfermeiros
Headline: Braga Hospital is authorized to hire 75 nurses - Manchete: Negociações com os professores são retomadas hoje e com os enfermeiros só na próxima semana
Headline: Negotiations with teachers resume today and with nurses next week
Spain
- Titular: Satse exige que la asistencia sanitaria en España no continúe discriminando a las mujeres
Headline: Satse demands that health care in Spain does not continue to discriminate against women - Titular: Exigen no excluir a 10.000 enfermeras del título de Familiar y Comunitaria
Headline: Demands not to exclude 10,000 Family and Community nurses - Titular: Satse advierte de "improvisación permanente" e "incumplimiento de plazos" en las oposiciones del SAS
Headline: Satse warns of "permanent improvisation" and "breach of deadlines" in the SAS exams - Titular: Carrefour retirará los disfraces con una imagen sexista de la mujer enfermera
Headline: Carrefour will remove costumes with a sexist image of female nurses - Titular: Satse traslada a las Consejerías de Sanidad su ley contra agresiones
Headline: Satse moves law against aggression to Regional Health Ministry - Titular: Satse reclama más personal en las urgencias pediátricas
Headline: Satse demands more staff in pediatric ERs - Titular: Carrera profesional: Satse lleva a los tribunales la propuesta de Murcia
Headline: Professional career: Satse takes the Murcia proposal to court - Titular: SATSE Madrid logra que el Gobierno PP-Cs de la Comunidad de Madrid no reduzca el horario de los centros de salud
Headline: SATSE Madrid successful in keeping government PP-Cs in Madrid from reducing the hours at health centers - Titular: Respaldo sindical a un tercer punto de urgencias en avenida de América
Headline: Union supports third emergency point on América Avenue - Titular: Una enfermera para 90 ancianos
Headline: One nurse per 90 elderly residents
United Kingdom
- Headline: Birmingham nurses are leaving the NHS - because of THIS reason
- Headline: Bullying and sexual harassment 'endemic' in NHS hospitals
- Headline: More NHS staff feeling unwell due to work stress
- Headline: NHS England survey reveals 'alarming downturn' in staff wellbeing
- Headline: 'Better weather, better pay': German hospital looks to lure UK's Polish nurses
United States
- Headline: Providers push back against conflict of interest concerns for Joint Commission, other accreditors
- Headline: The special interests behind REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL’S Medicare For All Bill are not the usual suspect
- Headline: Rep. Jayapal unveils visionary bill to remake US healthcare system
- Headline: As Over 100 House Democrats Embrace ‘Medicare for All,’ a Party Division Appears
- Headline: With wide backing, progressive lawmakers formally unveil Medicare For All
- Headline: Vowing to Fight 'Until We Win,' Advocates Plan Nationwide Mobilization to Pass Medicare for All
- Headline: Illinois nurses say staffing standards needed to address “patient safety crisis”
- Headline: Out-of-state nurses provide care to asylum seekers
- Headline: Health care activists plan national push on Rep. Pramila Jayapal's Medicare for All bill
- Headline: Insurance Stocks Plunge as Medicare for All Bill Unveiled With Major Democratic Support
- Headline: Injured worker’s tale prods lawmakers to pass protective legislation
- Headline: Accept no Medicare for All substitute
- Headline: Nurses, Social Workers Demand Action on Workplace Violence
- Headline: Nurses take staffing fight to Springfield
- Headline: Saying no to the nurses: California Democrats aren’t pushing government-run health care this year
- Headline: Assemblymember introduces hospital-closure bill, separate ordinance to increase funding for K-12 education
- Headline: CHI St. Alexius nurses try for second time to unionize
- Headline: CHI St. Alexius Nurses Taking Steps to Unionize