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
https://www.news-mail.com.au/news/spot-checks-wont-fix-bigger-issue-says-qnmu/3367911/
Headline: Spot checks won’t fix bigger issue says QNMU
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Australia
http://www.examiner.com.au/story/5293185/campaign-tells-of-chronic-lack-of-beds-at-lgh/
Headline: Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation launch Bring Your Own Bed campaign at LGH
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Australia
https://www.news-mail.com.au/news/nurses-stepping-up-fight-with-national-aged-care-a/3365983/
Headline: Nurses stepping up fight with national aged care ad campaign
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Australia
Headline: Concerns for resident care at popular nursing home after nurses made redundant
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Brazil
Manchete: Wilson Filho defende redução de jornada de trabalho dos enfermeiros
Headline: Wilson Filho advocates for reduction of nurses’ work hours
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Canada
Headline: Nova Scotia health-care unions seek strike vote
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Canada
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/st-boniface-hospital-nursing-overtime-1.4587041
Headline: Mandatory overtime at St. Boniface Hospital ‘basically how they’re staffing’: nurses union
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Canada
Headline: Mandatory OT at St. Boniface Hospital at ‘crisis level’: nurses union
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Canada
Headline: Nurses’ union sounds alarm over working conditions at St. Boniface
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Canada
http://winnipegsun.com/news/provincial/union-says-nursing-ot-at-crisis-level-at-st-boniface-hospital
Headline: Union says nursing OT at ‘crisis level’ at St. Boniface Hospital
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Canada
Headline: Testing Quebec’s patients: Students should care about the nursing crisis
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Canada
https://www.chrisd.ca/2018/03/21/manitoba-nurses-overtime-st-boniface-hospital/
Headline: Manitoba Nurses Working Mandatory Overtime at Critical Level: Union
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Canada
Headline: St. Boniface Hospital ‘no longer safe’: worker
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Canada
Headline: Little of $245-million windfall to ease ‘chronic problems’ with long-term care
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Canada
Headline: Group of N.S. health-care unions to hold first province wide strike vote
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Dominican Republic
Titular: Enfermeras denuncian pacientes de hemodiálisis mueren por falta de personal en Hospital Cabral y Báez
Headline: Nurses report dialysis patients die due to lack of personnel at Cabral y Báez Hospital
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France
Titre: Grève dans les fonctions publiques : des hôpitaux très mobilisés
Headline: Strike in public functions: hospitals very mobilized
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India
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/665599/kidwai-institute-nurses-strike-enters.html
Headline: Kidwai institute nurses’ strike enters 8th day
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Ireland
http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=26127
Headline: Trolley crisis ‘not over’ – INMO
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Ireland
https://www.donegalnow.com/news/nurses-union-reveals-500-patients-trolleys-warn-crisis-not/214091
Headline: Nurses’ union reveals 500 patients on trolleys and warn “crisis is not over”
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Kenya
Headline: Murang’a nurses sue governor Wa Iria over unpaid salaries
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New Zealand
https://www.facebook.com/Breakfaston1/videos/10156117522662719/
Headline: Nurses to vote on pay offer
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New Zealand
Headline: Nurses scoff at 2 p.c pay offer
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New Zealand
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12016349
Headline: DHBs, nursing union ‘hopeful’ strikes can be avoided but preparing for worst
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New Zealand
Headline: Nurses to strike if no improvement on pay, working conditions
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New Zealand
Headline: Tired, stressed nurses considering strike action
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New Zealand
Headline: Staff shortages leave mothers in labour helping one another
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New Zealand
Headline: New figures highlight midwife shortages
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New Zealand
Headline: Nurses assaulted at Christchurch hospital after police don’t respond to call for help
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New Zealand
Headline: Assaults on staff at Waitākere and North Shore hospitals jump by 9 per cent
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Paraguay
Titular: Enfermeras denuncian sistema de trabajo caótico
Headline: Nurses denounce chaotic work system
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Paraguay
Titular: Unos 4.000 enfermeros están desempleados y trabajan “en cualquier otra cosa”, afirman
Headline: Some 4,000 nurses are unemployed and work “in anything else,” they say.
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Portugal
Manchete: Sindicato faz balanço positivo da greve dos enfermeiros e destaca conquistas
Headline: Union takes positive view of nurses’ strike and highlights achievements
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Portugal
Manchete: Greve de enfermeiros ameaça parar consultas e cirurgias
Headline: Nurses strike threatens to stop consultations and surgeries
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Portugal
Manchete: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros pede reunião urgente a ministros das Finanças e Saúde
Headline: Nurses Union calls for urgent meeting between Finance and Health ministers
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Portugal
Manchete: Cirurgias canceladas são principal consequência no segundo dia da greve dos enfermeiros
Headline: Canceled surgeries are the main consequence on the second day of the nurses’ strike
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Portugal
Manchete: Greve de enfermeiros leva ao cancelamento de cirurgias em todo o país
Headline: Nurses strike leads to cancellation of surgeries across the country
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Portugal
Manchete: Enfermeiros: adesão à greve rondou os 70% no turno da noite
Headline: Nurses: adherence to the strike was around 70% on the night shift
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Portugal
https://ionline.sapo.pt/605367
Manchete: Greve dos enfermeiros. Segundo dia avança hoje, mas Sindicato faz balanço positivo de quinta-feira
Headline: Nurses strike. Second day advances today, but Union made positive turn Thursday
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Portugal
Manchete: Enfermeiros: Sindicato pede reunião urgente a ministros das Finanças e Saúde
Headline: Nurses: Union urges urgent meeting of finance and health ministers
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Portugal
Manchete: Greve/Enfermeiros: Sindicato faz balanço positivo e enaltece conquistas
Headline: Strike / Nurses: Union shows positive results and praises achievements
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Portugal
Manchete: Um em cada cinco enfermeiros diz sofrer de sintomas de depressão grave
Headline: One in five nurses says they suffer from severe symptoms of depression
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Portugal
Manchete: Greve dos Enfermeiros: Cirurgias programadas adiadas nos hospitais do Alentejo, diz sindicato
Headline: Nurses’ Strike: Scheduled surgeries postponed at Alentejo hospitals, union says
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South Africa
https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/news/denosa-motsoaledi-overwhelmed-and-must-go/
Headline: Denosa: Motsoaledi ‘is overwhelmed and must go’
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South Africa
Headline: Health unions to stage Johannesburg protest on Friday
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South Korea
http://koreabizwire.com/govt-to-remedy-toxic-working-conditions-for-nurses/114679
Headline: Gov’t to Remedy Toxic Working Conditions for Nurses
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South Korea
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/837084.html
Headline: Union calls for reforms to “burn culture” in the medical industry
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Spain
Titular: Satse: “El acuerdo de empleados públicos aumenta las desigualdades entre los sanitarios”
Headline: Satse: “The public employees’ agreement increases inequalities between health workers”
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Spain
Titular: #StopAgresiones, la nueva campaña en redes sociales de Satse
Headline: #StopAggressions, Satse’s new social media campaign
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Spain
Titular: Satse elabora un proyecto de Ley contra las agresiones a sanitarios
Headline: Satse drafts a law against aggressions toward health workers
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Spain
Titular: La rotura de una tubería en el Clínico afecta a parte del techo de la UCI y motiva el traslado de pacientes
Headline: Pipe rupture in clinic affects part of the ICU roof, causing patient transfers
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Spain
http://www.hoy.es/extremadura/satse-presenta-tres-20180314132218-nt.html
Titular: Satse recurre ante el TSJEx la acumulación de plazas del SES
Headline: Satse appeals to the TSJEx (Extremadura Superior Court of Justice) against the grouping of places by the SES (Extremadura Health Service)
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Spain
http://www.diariodeleon.es/noticias/leon/pacientes-suelo-saturacion-oftalmologia_1235264.html
Titular: Pacientes por el suelo y saturación en Oftalmología
Headline: Patients cover the floor in Ophthalmology
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Spain
Titular: Marañón: Hay enfermeras que necesitarían ingresar, como pacientes, en Urgencias
Headline: Marañón: There are nurses who would need to enter the emergency room as patients
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Spain
Titular: ¿Qué pasa con la gestión de Personal en los hospitales públicos?
Headline: What happens with the personnel management in public hospitals?
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Spain
Titular: El Satse exige que los centros sanitarios certifiquen las funciones de gestión frente al Virgen de la Concha
Headline: In front of the Virgen de la Concha hospital, Satse demands that health centers certify management functions
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Spain
Titular: La organización del personal en el área sanitaria preocupa a los profesionales
Headline: The organization of health worker personnel worries professionals
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Spain
Titular: SATSE volverá a movilizarse mañana por las funciones de Enfermería
Headline: SATSE will mobilize tomorrow over nurses’ responsibilities
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Spain
Titular: Sanidad compra 14 cabinas de seguridad para preparar medicamentos peligrosos
Headline: Department of Health purchases 14 secure booths for preparing dangerous medicines
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United Kingdom
Headline: Patient safety hit by lack of staff, warn 80% of NHS workers
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United Kingdom
Headline: Lowest paid NHS staff may receive pay rise of up to 29% in new deal
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United Kingdom
Headline: ‘We do not need more barriers for nursing students’
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United States
http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-nurses-union-20180319-story.html
Headline: Some Johns Hopkins nurses trying to unionize
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United States
Headline: Kaiser Permanente reaches tentative labor deal with 19k healthcare workers
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United States
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article205913984.html
Headline: Thousands of Sacramento-area hospital workers will see wage increases
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United States
Headline: Johns Hopkins nurses eye unionizing over staffing, benefits
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United States
Headline: Some nurses push for vote to unionize at Johns Hopkins: 5 things to know
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United States
Headline: County nurses reach tentative contract agreement
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United States
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/article/NH/20180319/NEWS/180319812
Headline: Kaiser Permanente, nurses union, reach tentative contract agreement for Northern California
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United States
http://afro.com/prince-georgians-embrace-state-single-payer-system/
Headline: Prince Georgians Embrace State Single-Payer System
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United States
http://www.marinij.com/general-news/20180320/san-rafael-kaiser-nurses-negotiate-new-contract
Headline: San Rafael Kaiser nurses negotiate new contract
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United States
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8135229-181/kaiser-and-northern-california-nurses
Headline: Kaiser and Northern California nurses agree on 5-year labor contract
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United States
Headline: Nurses Reach 5-Year Tentative Agreement with Kaiser Permanente
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United States
Headline: County nurses reach tentative contract agreement
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Zimbabwe
https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/doctors-strike-harare-hospital/4302444.html
Headline: Zimbabwe State Hospital Shutdown as Doctors, Nurses Strike Paralyzes Nation
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Zimbabwe
https://www.dailynews.co.zw/articles/2018/03/20/nurses-call-off-strike-doctors-defiant
Headline: Nurses call off strike, doctors defiant
