International Nurse News Round-Up

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Ireland ambulance queue
See a collection of links to news stories about nurses in other nations, and how they are advocating for their patients.
Global Nurses United

Kaiser Nurses to Hold Information Pickets Across CA Thursday for Safer Care

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Safe Staffing Now
With what nurses say is a growing erosion of care conditions in Kaiser Permanente hospitals and clinics—especially egregious, according to nurses, in light of Kaiser’s $2.5 billion in profits in the last six months—Kaiser registered nurses and nurse practitioners will hold informational pickets at 22 medical centers across California on Thursday, November 2.
California Nurses Association
Oct 31, 2017
California

Marin nurses, back from Puerto Rico, urge more hurricane relief

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Erin Carrera, RN
Under a sweltering Puerto Rican sun two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit, thousands of victims — including, children, babies, the elderly and people in wheelchairs — formed a mile-long line awaiting aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency team that had just arrived at a stadium in Rio Grande.
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Adrian Rodriguez, Marin Independent Journal
Puerto Rico
California

RN Volunteers Back from Puerto Rico Join Congress Members to Urge Increased Aid to Stem Health Crisis

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RN Volunteers at Capitol presser

RN Volunteers Back from Puerto Rico Join Congress Members to Urge Increased Aid to Stem Health Crisis

Registered nurse volunteers who recently returned from two weeks of providing nursing care and other disaster relief today joined House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress to call for increased aid to confront the ongoing humanitarian and health care crisis in Puerto Rico.

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RN Response Network
Puerto Rico

How Is FEMA Helping Puerto Rico? The National Nurses' United Says It's "Leaving Them To Die"

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Devistated elderly residents of Puerto Rico

Six weeks after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico with deadly force and left the island dark, the negative news about the situation for the island's residents keeps pouring in. Now, in a sharp criticism of the federal aide response in Puerto Rico, a nurses' union, via a representative on Capitol Hill, said that the response had had the effect of "delaying necessary humanitarian aide to its own citizens and leaving them to die."

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Lani Seelinger, The Bustle
Puerto Rico
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