Below is a collection of links to news stories, provided by Global Nurses United, about nurses in other nations and how they are advocating for their patients.
Headline: Nursing unions around world call for UN action on Covid vaccine patents
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Headline: 2.5 Million Nurses Demand UN Probe Into ‘Covid-19 Criminals’ Blocking Patent Waiver
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Manchete: Covid-19: Enfermeiros denunciam UE e Reino Unido por “bloquearem” patentes de vacinas
Headline: Covid-19: Nurses denounce EU and UK for “blocking” vaccine patents
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/30/vaccine-patent-waivers-nurses-unions-un/
Headline: Nursing unions around the world file U.N. complaint as debate over vaccine patent waivers stalls
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Titre: Des infirmières portent plainte à l’ONU contre les « criminels de la COVID » qui défendent les brevets sur les vaccins
Headline: Nurses file UN complaint against ‘COVID criminals’ defending vaccine patents
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Manchete: Enfermeiros de 28 países assinam nota de repúdio por distribuição desigual de vacinas
Headline: Nurses from 28 countries sign a repudiation note for unequal distribution of vaccines
Headline: Nursing unions blame EU, 4 countries for Covid deaths
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https://www.newsclick.in/call-action-COVID-19-criminals-blocking-vaccine-patent-waiver
Headline: Call for Action Against COVID-19 ‘Criminals’ Blocking Vaccine Patent Waiver
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Headline: Millions Of Nurses Call For Human Rights Investigation Over Covid-19 Patent Waiver
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https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/963812
Headline: Nurses Worldwide Call on UN to Stop ‘Vaccine Apartheid’
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/30/vaccine-patent-waivers-nurses-unions-un/
Headline: Nursing unions around the world file U.N. complaint as debate over vaccine patent waivers stalls
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Headline: Nursing Unions From 28 Nations Write To UN Seeking Action On COVID Vaccine Patents: Report
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Headline: Nurses worldwide call out Singapore, rich nations for hoarding vaccines
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Headline: Omicron: Nursing unions call for WTO to open COVID vaccine patents as variant spreads
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https://www.devex.com/news/devex-newswire-omicron-variant-refuels-vaccine-inequity-debates-102215
Headline: Omicron variant refuels vaccine inequity debates
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https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/supply-chain-chaos-charmaine-chua
Headline: Belabored: Supply Chain Chaos, with Charmaine Chua
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Headline: Nurses from 28 countries file UN complaint alleging human rights violations by EU and 4 countries for ‘the loss of countless lives’ in the pandemic
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Titular: Trabajadores de la salud de todo el mundo piden una acción urgente de la ONU
Headline: Health workers around the world call for urgent UN action
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-30/victoria-records-new-covid-cases-deaths/100660460
Headline: Victoria records 918 COVID cases as union mourns Melbourne nurse who died with the virus
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Headline: Lack of NSW Ambulance and hospital staff
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Headline: Victorian nurses among health workers missing out on COVID-19 payment after administrative delay
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Headline: Tasmanian healthcare workers concerned system is underprepared to manage COVID cases ahead of border reopening
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Headline: Nurses say severe staff shortages due to the COVID pandemic is crippling Mid North Coast health system
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Headline: Labor and the ANMF call for staffing data before borders reopen.
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Headline: Aged care workers in 3 states threaten strike action
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https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/coronavirus/vaccine-mandate-for-tas-public-workers-c-4878687
Headline: Vaccine mandate for Tas public workers
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Headline: John Hunter Hospital and Children’s Hospital emergency nurses call for safer patient ratios as patients face huge wait times due to lack of staff
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Manchete: Lira esnoba enfermeiros, enquanto categoria se mobiliza pelo piso nacional
Headline: Lira snubs nurses, as they mobilize over minimum pay
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Titre: Les négociations reprendront après le vote de grève des infirmières au N.-B.
Headline: Negotiations will resume after the NB nurses strike vote.
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Headline: Nurses Association Says Provinces Failure To Maintain Stockpiles Of PPE Inexcusable
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/gillam-manitoba-nursing-shortage-1.6268039
Headline: ‘Desperate for help’ as nursing vacancies soar in northern Manitoba, union says in urgent plea
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https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/special/coronavirus/we-are-on-our-last-legs-575837632.html
Headline: ‘We are on our last legs’
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nurses-union-strike-vote-planned-1.6268549
Headline: N.B. nurses union to hold strike vote this week
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/sudbury-ona-public-health-conciliation-1.6264100
Headline: Sudbury health unit, nurses’ union to enter conciliation talks Monday
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Headline: Quebec launches two programs to boost recruitment of health-care workers
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https://www.brandonsun.com/local/Push-to-add-nurses-has-challenges-575826181.html
Headline: Push to add nurses has challenges
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Headline: SOS: Northern health care in critical condition due to nursing shortage: mayors
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https://winnipegsun.com/news/news-news/ndp-tories-spar-over-state-of-nursing-in-manitoba
Headline: NDP, Tories spar over state of nursing in Manitoba
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Headline: Quebec To Set Up Two Fast-Track Health-Care Training Programs To Combat Labour Shortage
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Titre: Les infirmières du Nouveau-Brunswick ont voté à 92 % en faveur d’un mandat de grève
Headline: New Brunswick nurses voted 92% in favor of a strike mandate
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Titre: COVID-19 au N.-B. : près de la moitié des décès ont eu lieu dans des foyers
Headline: COVID-19 in NB: Nearly half of deaths have occurred in homes
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Headline: ‘Completely exhausted’: Health-care workers in Manitoba warn staff shortages taking toll
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Headline: N.B. COVID-19 roundup: 69 new cases, 125 active cases in schools, child-care facilities
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https://lactualite.com/actualites/entente-de-principe-pour-les-infirmieres-du-nouveau-brunswick/
Titre: Entente de principe pour les infirmières du Nouveau-Brunswick
Headline: New Brunswick Nurses Agreement in Principle
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Headline: St. Boniface wellness efforts ‘slap in the face’: nurses
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Headline: Sask. adding 11 permanent ICU beds by June as part of larger goal
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Headline: Health-care morale low, threatening resumption plans: survey, unions
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https://discoverestevan.com/articles/conflicting-accounts-on-healthcare-staffing-levels
Headline: Conflicting Accounts on Healthcare Staffing Levels
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Headline: Manitoba’s health care task force faces monumental task in clearing backlog
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Headline: SOS – northern health care in critical condition due to nursing shortage: mayors
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Headline: New Brunswick nurses vote in favour of strike to back contract demands with province
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Headline: Tentative collective agreements reached for over 8,000 New Brunswick nurses
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Titre: Les primes attirent peu d’infirmières du privé
Headline: Premiums attract few nurses from the private sector
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https://www.elheraldo.hn/pais/1505953-466/personal-salud-sin-acuerdo-laboral-honduras
Titular: El 82% of personal de salud aun estan esperando recibir su acuerdo laboral
Headline: 82% of health personnel are still waiting to receive their employment agreement
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https://www.her.ie/health/irish-nurses-abuse-pandemic-541406
Headline: Irish nurses subjected to over 7,500 assaults since the beginning of the pandemic
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Headline: ‘Profit must be secondary’ – INMO calls for public and private hospitals to act as one
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https://www.lmfm.ie/news/lmfm-news/navan-hospital-affected-by-high-nursing-staff-vacancies/
Headline: Navan Hospital affected by high nursing staff vacancies
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Headline: TROLLEY WATCH: Hundreds of patients wait for beds at overcrowded Irish hospitals
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https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40761159.html
Headline: ‘Farcical and dangerous’: Elderly man waits 30 hours for bed in Limerick hospital
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https://extra.ie/2021/12/09/news/irish-news/family-mother-forced-nursing-home-move
Headline: Family forced to move their mother, 96, to nursing home 70km away
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/nurses-strike-at-haifa-hospital-after-violent-assault-on-staff/
Headline: Nurses strike at Haifa hospital after violent assault on staff
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Titolo: NurSind Piemonte: il sindacato degli infermieri si prepara allo sciopero
Headline: NurSind Piemonte: the nurses’ union is preparing to strike
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Titolo: Indennizzi Covid a operai, portieri e non agli infermieri. NurSind Ancona dichiara stato agitazione
Headline: Covid compensation to workers, doormen and not to nurses. NurSind Ancona declares a state of agitation
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Titolo: 1 infermiere per 27 pazienti. Sanità pordenonese drammatica: Nursind dichiara stato agitazione
Headline: 1 nurse for 27 patients. Dramatic Pordenone healthcare: Nursind declares a state of agitation
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Titolo: Covid, la denuncia del NurSind: “Grassi in affanno, a rischio la sicurezza di infermieri e pazienti”
Headline: Covid, the NurSind complaint: “Grassi in trouble, the safety of nurses and patients at risk”
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Titolo: Asp Messina, il Nursind: “i buoni pasto vanno pagati sempre ai turnisti durante le pause”
Headline: Asp Messina, the Nursind: “meal vouchers must always be paid to shift workers during breaks”
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https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/lack-aged-care-nurses-affects-quality-care
Headline: Lack of aged-care nurses affects quality of care
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Headline: Christchurch nurses plan protest over stalled pay rise
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Headline: NZNO protests cancelled after DHBs agree to pre-Christmas pay outs
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Headline: Threatened closure of resthome ‘huge’ blow for residents and Porirua
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Headline: Auckland nurse says notion hospitals could cope with Covid-19 surge ‘utter nonsense’
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https://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/undoctored/unions-call-mandated-safe-staffing-aged-care
Headline: Unions call for mandated safe staffing in aged care
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https://waateanews.com/2021/12/09/wards-hazardous-as-nurse-shortage-bites/
Headline: Wards hazardous as nurse shortage bites
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https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/health/staffing-still-struggle-dhb
Headline: Staffing still a struggle: DHB
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Headline: Health workers oppose DOH unit memo requiring names of COVID patients they helped
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https://www.bworldonline.com/philippines-faces-another-infection-wave-as-omicron-looms/
Headline: Philippines faces another infection wave as Omicron looms
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Headline: Over 90 party-list groups appealing denied registration with Comelec
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https://www.bworldonline.com/philippines-raises-deployment-cap-for-health-workers/
Headline: Philippines raises deployment cap for health workers
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Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros reclama autonomia de contratação para hospitais
Headline: Nurses Union claims hiring autonomy for hospitals
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https://www.radiopax.com/sindicato-dos-enfermeiros-exige-melhores-condicoes-de-vacinacao-em-beja/
Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros exige melhores condições de vacinação em Beja
Headline: Nurses Union demands better vaccination conditions in Beja
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Manchete: Aguiar da Beira com “apenas dois” enfermeiros para mais de 4.000 utentes
Headline: Aguiar da Beira with “only two” nurses for more than 4,000 users
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Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros denuncia excesso de horas extra no Porto
Headline: Nurses’ Union Denounces Excessive Overtime in Porto
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Manchete: 500 000 horas de trabalho extraordinário efetuadas nos hospitais do Porto
Headline: 500 000 hours of overtime work performed in hospitals in Porto
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Manchete: Enfermeiros dos hospitais do Porto realizaram 500 mil horas extra desde início do ano
Headline: Nurses at hospitals in Porto have worked 500,000 extra hours since the beginning of the year
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Headline: Modest improvement at dysfunctional Gauteng clinics, report finds
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https://bogun.nodong.org/xe/KHMU_Info/683180
Headline: The KHMU starts a hunger strike in front of the National Assembly
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https://bogun.nodong.org/xe/KHMU_Info/683178
Headline: The KHMU conducted a labor-management joint declaration ceremony for responding to the climate crisis.
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https://bogun.nodong.org/xe/KHMU_Info/684682
Headline: Na Soon-ja, president of the Korean health and medical workers’ union, and Lee Seon-hee, vice president ended 10-day hunger strike
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Titular: Satse denuncia “improvisación y caos” del SAS en la contratación de enfermeras en Sevilla
Headline: Satse denounces “improvisation and chaos” of the SAS in the hiring of nurses in Seville
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Titular: SATSE denuncia que más de 150.000 enfermeras y enfermeros son discriminados al no reconocerles el ‘solape de jornada’
Headline: SATSE denounces that more than 150,000 nurses are discriminated against because they’re “extra working hours” are not recognized
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Titular: Satse avisa de que enfermeros “no harán de policías” con el certificado Covid en Galicia
Headline: Satse warns that nurses “will not act as policemen” with the Covid certificate in Galicia
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https://www.gasteizhoy.com/osakidetza-intromision-satse/
Titular: Satse acusa a Osakidetza de “intromisión en la vida personal” de los sanitarios
Headline: Satse accuses Osakidetza of “meddling in the personal life” of health workers
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Titular: El Joan XXIII, al límite por culpa de la falta de enfermeras
Headline: Joan XXIII, at the brink due to the shortage of nurses
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Titular: Satse exige mejores contratos para las enfermeras ante el déficit de profesionales en la sexta ola
Headline: Satse demands better contracts for nurses given the shortage of professionals in the sixth wave
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https://www.diariodehuelva.es/2021/12/09/satse-enfermeras/
Titular: SATSE alerta del déficit de enfermeras en la UCI del Hospital Juan Ramón Jiménez
Headline: SATSE warns of the shortage of nurses in the ICU of the Juan Ramón Jiménez Hospital
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Headline: 2.5 mn Nurses including from Sri Lanka file UN complaint against high income countries for blocking Covid vaccine patents
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https://www.gnoa.lk/vehicle-rally-of-the-of-health-professionals-sri-lanka/
Headline: Vehicle Parade of the Federation of Health Professionals was held on Tuesday (30 th) at Colombo town
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Headline: Charges and countercharges, as power outage probe focuses on sabotage; more unions mull strike
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https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/nhs-staff-facing-rising-tide-22370551
Headline: NHS staff faced rising tide of abuse and attacks during the pandemic
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-59459583
Headline: Abuse from patients leaves NHS workers ‘traumatised’
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https://inews.co.uk/news/health/nurses-prepared-to-back-strike-action-over-nhs-pay-1332043
Headline: Nurses prepared to back strike action over NHS pay
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Headline: Covid-19: Nurse wellbeing study expanded to ‘identify more ways to help’
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Headline: ‘We deserve to have fair pay that will provide us with peace of mind’
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Headline: Scottish budget must ensure the NHS has safe levels of staff – Colin Poolman
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https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/surrey-hospital-staff-assaulted-more-22375208
Headline: Surrey hospital staff assaulted more than 600 times while battling to provide care during pandemic
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https://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/articles/RCN-social-care-reform-whitepaper-workforce
Headline: RCN: Social care reform whitepaper fails to address workforce issues
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Headline: Race and health experts call for greater vaccine equity to fight Omicron
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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/renfrewshire/nursing-leaders-raise-fears-over-25656737
Headline: Nursing leaders raise fears over NHS vacancies
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Headline: As covid persists, nurses are leaving staff jobs — and tripling their salaries as travelers
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Headline: Michigan Nurses Association files unfair labor practice charge against Sparrow Hospital
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/omicron-variant-fears-in-michigan-spiral-among-overloaded-nurses
Headline: Slammed Nurses Brace for Omicron ‘Nightmare’ in Michigan
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Headline: ‘This is not sustainable’: Nurses at Longmont hospital, exhausted and overwhelmed, call for change
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https://www.voanews.com/a/the-inside-story-nurses-fatigue-transcript/6336826
Headline: The Inside Story-Nurses Fatigue TRANSCRIPT
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https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nurses-covid-feminism/
Headline: Standing With Nurses Is a Feminist Project
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Headline: Nurses worldwide demand end to corporate curbs on coronavirus vaccines
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Headline: ‘This is not sustainable’: Nurses at Longmont hospital, exhausted and overwhelmed, call for change
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https://www.ksbw.com/article/watsonville-community-hospital-faces-january-closure/38417289
Headline: Watsonville Community Hospital faces January closure
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Headline: Longmont United Hospital nurses protest what they say are unsafe conditions
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https://www.wilx.com/2021/12/03/sparrow-nurses-association-reach-tentative-agreement/
Headline: Sparrow, nurses association reach tentative agreement
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Headline: ‘For-Profit Healthcare Hurts All of Us’: Sacramento Approves Single-Payer Resolution
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https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/nurses-demand-california-hospital-remain-open.html
Headline: Nurses demand California hospital remain open
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https://news.bloomberglaw.com/safety/employers-unions-want-answers-on-osha-health-care-covid-rule
Headline: Employers, Unions Want Answers on OSHA Health-Care Covid Rule
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Headline: In Light of Omicron Variant, Nurses Call for Permanent OSHA COVID-19 Standards
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https://patch.com/california/watsonville/watsonville-hospital-sale-nonprofit-steps-avoid-closure
Headline: Watsonville Hospital Sale: Nonprofit Steps Up To Avoid Closure
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Headline: The First Year of COVID: Filipinos Were Among Hardest Hit, But Hidden by Data
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Headline: Watsonville Hospital corporation begins bankruptcy case
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Headline: Duluth City Council calls for universal health care
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Headline: Mich. Hospital Withheld Info From Union, NLRB Judge Says
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Headline: Sparrow, union caregivers reach tentative contract deal