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.
Australia
Headline: Urgent call for nurses to fill shifts at swamped testing sites
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Brazil
Manchete: Maternidade Nossa Senhora de Lourdes operates over capacity in Sergipe during the pandemic
Headline: Nossa Senhora de Lourdes Maternity Hospital operates over capacity in Sergipe during the pandemic
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Canada
Headline: Quebec nurses union wants vaccine, N95 masks for all health-care workers
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https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1760488/attente-2021-saguenay
Titre: Qu’espère-t-on pour l’année 2021?
Headline: What do we hope for the year 2021?
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Headline: Ontario hospital CEO who travelled to Dominican Republic removed from one position, but fate at another remains unclear
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https://globalnews.ca/news/7559343/saskatchewan-coronavirus-vaccine-rollout/
Headline: Saskatchewan no longer holding back coronavirus vaccine doses
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https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/health-care-workers-getting-more-access-to-ppe-1.5256877
Headline: Health-care workers getting more access to PPE
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Headline: Glitches hit rollout of vaccine super site
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Headline: Spectre of vaccine hesitancy haunts health care
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https://globalnews.ca/news/7551664/n-s-long-term-care-facility-neglect-family/
Headline: Family speaks out about alleged neglect at N.S. long-term care facility
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Dominican Republic
Titular: Sinatrae se opone al traslado de enfermeras de área covid del Hospital Luis Eduardo Aybar
Headline: Sinatrae opposes the transfer of nurses from the covid area of the Luis Eduardo Aybar Hospital
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Titular: Sinatrae emplaza a las autoridades de salud a mostrar dónde están las camas disponibles
Headline: Sinatrae calls on the health authorities to show where the available beds are
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Titular: Posiciones divergentes en cuanto a la vacuna de Astrazeneca
Headline: Divergent positions regarding the Astrazeneca vaccine
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Titular: El gremio de enfermeria, Sinatrae, se reunió con la Vicepresidenta de la República
Headline: The nursing union, Sinatrae, met with the Vice President of the Republic
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https://www.elcaribe.com.do/panorama/pais/profesionales-de-la-salud-anuncian-paro-de-labores/
Titular: Profesionales de la salud anuncian paro de labores
Headline: Health professionals announce work stoppage
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Titular: Pacientes desesperados por camas y pruebas PCR
Headline: Desperate patients for beds and PCR tests
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Honduras
https://www.vtv.com.hn/noticia/enfermeras-por-contrato-van-a-paro/
Titular: Enfermeras por contrato van a paro
Headline: Contract nurses go on strike
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https://tiempo.hn/enfermeras-protestas-honduras-salario-permanencia/
Titular: Paro a nivel nacional: enfermeras exigen pago de salario y permanencia
Headline: Nationwide unemployment: nurses demand payment of salary and permanence
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https://www.latribuna.hn/2021/01/07/enfermeras-demandan-plazas-para-companeras-por-contrato/
Titular: Enfermeras demandan plazas para compañeras por contrato
Headline: Nurses demand places for contract partners
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Titular: ANEEAH se reunirá con autoridades de Salud para buscar mecanismo y solventar problema de plazas permanentes
Headline: ANEEAH will meet with Health authorities to find a mechanism and solve the problem of permanent places
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Ireland
https://lovin.ie/news/inmo-plea-to-public-as-hospitals-under-extreme-pressure
Headline: Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation in plea to public as hospitals under “extreme pressure”
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Headline: Hospitals under ‘extreme pressure’ during Covid surge
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Headline: Ireland’s frontline nurses and midwives make desperate plea to public as Covid-19 Christmas surge causes ‘extreme pressure’
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Headline: INMO Student Reps Frustrated By ‘Insignificant’ €100 Placement Grant Proposal
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Headline: Cork hospital confirms 100 nurses unable to work due to Covid-19
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Headline: ‘Critical emergency’ protocols needed due to ‘unrecognisable health service’, INMO warns
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http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=27619
Headline: Staffing levels in health service “in freefall”
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Headline: Hospital staff numbers ‘in freefall’ due to Covid-19, INMO warns
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Italy
Titolo: Asp Trapani, il Nursind: 133 infermieri sono bloccati in attesa di trasferimento
Headline: Asp Trapani, the Nursind: 133 nurses are stuck awaiting transfer
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Titolo: Caltanissetta. Scorie radioattive. Nursind: “Il territorio ha già pagato scelte che hanno avuto un duro impatto ambientale”.
Headline: Caltanissetta. Radioactive waste. Nursind: “The territory has already paid for choices that have had a severe environmental impact”.
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Titolo: NurSind Ragusa. Prorogati di solo un mese i contratti a tempo determinato Covid
Headline: NurSind Ragusa. Covid fixed-term contracts extended by just one month
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Titolo: SANITÀ, LAVORATORI FRAGILI, IL NURSIND SCRIVE AI DG DI ASL E AORN
Headline: Healthcare, fragile workers, Nursind writes to the DGS of ASL and AORN
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Kenya
https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2021-01-08-nurses-who-succumb-to-covid-to-receive-compensation/
Headline: Nurses who succumb to Covid to receive compensation
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https://www.kbc.co.ke/nurses-union-reluctant-to-call-off-strike/
Headline: Nurses’ Union reluctant to call off strike
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Headline: Nyong’o sacks 400 nurses for missing work due to strike
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Headline: Looming health crisis following a dispute between clinical officers and the council of governors
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https://allafrica.com/stories/202101060603.html
Headline: Kenya: Unmasking the Covid-19 Burden On Women
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New Zealand
https://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/maori-provider-nurses-frustrated-being-still-next-line-decade
Headline: Māori provider nurses frustrated at being still ‘next in line’ a decade on
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Headline: Covid-19: Health experts keeping an eye on new strain developments
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Paraguay
https://www.nanduti.com.py/2021/01/04/gremio-repudia-humillante-trato-medico-enfermero/
Titular: Gremio repudia «humillante trato» de médico contra un enfermero
Headline: Union repudiates a doctor’s “humiliating treatment” of nurse
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Portugal
Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros acusa Governo de “fomentar a precariedade” e exige vinculação de dois mil precários
Headline: Union of Nurses accuses the Government of “promoting precariousness” and demands formalizing two thousand hires
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Manchete: Covid-19: Enfermeiros alertam que Hospital dos Covões em Coimbra está “em rutura”
Headline: Covid-19: Nurses warn that Hospital dos Covões in Coimbra is “broken”
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https://www.esquerda.net/artigo/portugal-enfrenta-nova-fase-de-imensa-pressao-no-sns/72090
Manchete: Portugal enfrenta nova “fase de imensa pressão” no SNS
Headline: Portugal faces new “phase of immense pressure” in the NHS
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South Africa
Headline: Healthcare staff first in line for jab
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Headline: Unemployed Denosa nurses stage sit-in to demand jobs
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Headline: Health Department promises to employ axed community service nurses after a sit-down
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South Korea
https://bogun.nodong.org/xe/KHMU_Info/635407#0
Headline: Press Conference on Protracted COVID-19 Conditions – Request for Action Plans
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Spain
Titular: Satse exige reforzar las plantillas de enfermeras y fisioterapeutas durante el 2021
Headline: Satse demands support for nurses and physiotherapists during 2021
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https://www.lavozdecordoba.es/actualidad/2021/01/04/satse-16/
Titular: SATSE: “2021 será un año muy duro”
Headline: SATSE: “2021 will be a very tough year”
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https://diario16.com/el-sindicato-de-enfermeras-satse-exige-vacunacion-todos-los-dias-de-la-semana/
Titular: El sindicato de enfermeras Satse exige vacunación todos los días de la semana
Headline: The Satse nurses union demands vaccination every day of the week
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Titular: El sindicato de enfermería de Madrid calcula que se tardarán meses en vacunar en las residencias
Headline: The Madrid nursing union estimates that it will take months to vaccinate in residences
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United Kingdom
https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/ppe-shortage-fears-returning-as-third-wave-of-covid-bites/
Headline: PPE shortage fears returning as third wave of Covid bites
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Headline: Exhausted ICU staff will leave the NHS once pandemic is over, matron warns
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Headline: Royal College of Nursing: Covid-19 situation is ‘very serious’ in Carlisle
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Headline: ‘No magic pile of nurses’ to staff Nightingale hospitals, health leader warns
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Headline: NHS doctors and nurses demand higher quality face masks amid fears their PPE isn’t good enough to stop new coronavirus variant on high-risk wards
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United States
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article248187865.html
Headline: Nurses at Sutter’s Sacramento psychiatry hospital unionize; Rideout RNs ratify contract
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https://www.sfexaminer.com/news-columnists/cpmc-nurses-fight-back-against-new-staffing-ratios/
Headline: CPMC nurses fight back against new staffing ratios
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https://www.modernhealthcare.com/labor/union-actions-outcry-reveal-tension-during-pandemic
Headline: Union actions, outcry reveal tension during pandemic
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https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/dec/29/nurses-stage-caravan-protest-possible-changes-nurs/
Headline: Nurses Stage Caravan To Protest Possible Changes To Nurse-To-Patient Ratios At Palomar Health
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Headline: California Is Overriding Its Limits On Nurse Workloads As COVID-19 Surges
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Headline: Watsonville nurses ask for answers with second demonstration this month
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https://www.iolaregister.com/news/local-nurse-works-to-combat-poverty
Headline: Local nurse works to combat poverty
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https://www.monroviaweekly.com/news/methodist-hospital-faces-severe-shortage-of-available-nurses/
Headline: Methodist Hospital Faces ‘Severe Shortage of Available Nurses’
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Headline: Patients Arrive at Federal Medical Station in Escondido With Additional 200+ Hospital Beds
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Headline: Americans will die following Donald Trump’s superspreader event in D.C. It’s guaranteed
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Headline: Bernie Sanders Says Trump ‘Directly Responsible’ for Insurrection Effort
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Headline: COVID-19 thrives in our profit-first health care system
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https://aflcio.org/2021/1/7/working-people-respond-attempted-coup-nations-capitol
Headline: Working People Respond to Attempted Coup at Nation’s Capitol
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https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/hospitals-california-officials-slow-virus-crisis-75105405
Headline: Hospitals say California officials too slow in virus crisis
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https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article248284495.html
Headline: Gov. Newsom must address California’s hospital safety violations amid COVID-19 surge
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Headline: UCLA Health buys California hospital slated for closure
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Headline: California orders hospitals to expand COVID-19 testing for staff
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Headline: Henry Mayo Nurses Hold Car Parade To Protest Nurse-To-Patient Staffing Ratios
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Headline: ‘It eats at you morally’: Arcadia nurses demand more staffing to care for patients amid COVID-19 surge
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https://peoplesworld.org/article/union-leaders-join-in-blaming-trump-for-insurrection-coup-try/
Headline: Union leaders join in blaming Trump for insurrection, coup attempt
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Headline: California bypasses tough nurse care rules amid virus surge
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Headline: State officials at odds with California hospital association over COVID-19 critical care
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Headline: Hospitals say California’s new health order doesn’t do enough to address virus crisis
