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: ‘Elderly in regional aged care can contract COVID’: NSW nurses say 80 per cent vaccination is not enough
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Headline: Australia’s biggest city is starting to live with Covid. Asia will be watching
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-16/weekend-of-covid-lockdown-begins-for-tasmania/100543900
Headline: Tasmania wakes up to a weekend of lockdown after COVID breach
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Headline: COVID-19 response boosted by extra hospital beds amid predicted caseload surge in SA
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-12/queensland-hospital-funding-plea-fears-about-safety/100530758
Headline: Funding plea as Queensland health workers fear hospitals not safe for patients and staff
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Headline: ‘We’re doing all that we can’: Guelph General bears brunt of staff shortage amid increased demand
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https://www.ckbw.ca/2021/10/13/more-than-1300-unfilled-nursing-jobs-in-ns/
Headline: More than 1300 unfilled nursing jobs in NS
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Titre: La FIQ met en demeure Québec pour «utilisation abusive» du temps supplémentaire obligatoire
Headline: FIQ gives Quebec formal notice for “abusive use” of compulsory overtime
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Headline: COVID-19: Health care workers fear case surge after Thanksgiving gatherings
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https://globalnews.ca/news/8258372/health-care-shortage-vaccine-mandates-canada/
Headline: Health-care staff shortages could be on the way as COVID-19 vaccine mandates loom
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Headline: Nurses say immediate action needed in wake of Calgary health-care worker’s apparent overdose death
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Headline: ‘The pandemic is wreaking havoc on them’: New Brunswick Nurses Union warns breaking point on the horizon
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Headline: Manitoba Nurses Union votes to ratify new collective agreement
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-nurses-union-contract-finalized-1.6211934
Headline: Nurses union finalizes collective agreement with Manitoba government after over 4 years without a contract
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Headline: Health-care workers at the breaking point: stemming the staff shortage crisis
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Titular: Personal de salud del hospital Aníbal Murillo protesta por falta de pago
Headline: Health personnel of the Aníbal Murillo hospital protests for lack of payment
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https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40719003.html
Headline: Highest number of patients on trolleys since start of the pandemic
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Headline: Connolly Hospital nurses to protest over working conditions
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Headline: Budget 2022: €1bn in funding to tackle Covid-19 will include purchase of booster shots
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https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2021-10-12-first-batch-of-uk-bound-nurses-to-depart-by-month-end/
Headline: First batch of UK-bound nurses to depart by month-end
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Headline: New Zealand Nurses Organisation accept DHBs’ latest pay offer
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Headline: Palmerston North Hospital wards short-staffed 30 per cent of the time
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Headline: Responding to labor challenges, post-pandemic
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https://mb.com.ph/2021/10/12/nurses-group-demands-better-pay-working-conditions/
Headline: Nurses’ group demands better pay, working conditions
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https://mb.com.ph/2021/10/12/health-workers-decry-hospital-budget-cut/
Headline: Health workers decry hospital budget cut
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Manchete: Sindicato alerta para atraso no pagamento de atualizações salariais a enfermeiros nos Açores
Headline: Union warns of late payment of salary updates to nurses in the Azores
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https://www.esquerda.net/artigo/profissionais-de-saude-alertam-para-situacoes-de-rutura-no-sns/77284
Manchete: Profissionais de saúde alertam para situações de rutura no SNS
Headline: Health professionals warn of situations of disruption in the NHS
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https://jornaloeste.pt/Faltam_enfermeiros_no_servico_de_urgencia_do_Hospital_de_Alcobaca
Manchete: Faltam enfermeiros no serviço de urgência do Hospital de Alcobaça
Headline: There is a shortage of nurses in the Alcobaça Hospital’s emergency department
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https://portocanal.sapo.pt/noticia/280667
Manchete: Sindicato dos enfermeiros marcam paralisação para a primeira semana de novembro
Headline: The nurses’ union schedules a strike for the first week of November
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Manchete: OE2022: Sindicato dos Enfermeiros Portugueses reivindica valorização da carreira
Headline: OE2022: Portuguese Nurses Union claims career enhancement
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https://www.newframe.com/ageing-nurses-a-crisis-looming-on-the-horizon/
Headline: Ageing nurses – a crisis looming on the horizon
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Headline: Head of KZN Health raises concerns over more than 20 000 health-care workers not vaccinated
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Titular: Satse denuncia el retraso de dos meses en la nómina de las nuevas enfermeras
Headline: Satse denounces the two month payroll delay for new nurses
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Titular: SATSE denuncia que hay cientos de enfermeras, matronas y fisioterapeutas que no han cobrado la paga covid
Headline: SATSE denounces that there are hundreds of nurses, midwives and physiotherapists who have not received covid pay
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Headline: Nurses who raised concerns over ICU work ‘were told they could quit if unhappy’, committee told
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Headline: Nurses to vote on action in pay dispute with Scottish government
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-58906028
Headline: Nurse pay: RCN in formal dispute with Welsh government over 3% rise
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https://www.mylondon.news/news/uk-world-news/call-give-nurses-respect-protected-21830031
Headline: Call to give nurses ‘respect’ with protected title is considered by Government
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Headline: ‘Are you going to keep me safe?’ Hospital workers sound alarm on rising violence
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https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/10/california-strikes-striketober/
Headline: Welcome to Striketober
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Headline: Health disparities for Filipinxs in health care are disguised by data aggregation
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Headline: Union challenges ‘exploitative’ hospital contract requirements for new nurses
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Headline: Missouri Health-Care Workers, Nurses Nationwide Facing Attacks
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Headline: Nursing shortage renews push for patient load limits
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Headline: California nursing students now required to take implicit bias training
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Headline: Florida nursing schools need more funding, faculty to prevent 59,100 nurse shortfall: report
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Headline: Nurses speak out in support of staffing ratios
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Headline: The daily hazard proving untenable in hospitals and strategies to curb it
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Nurses-At-Chinese-Hospital-Announce-3-Year-16531783.php
Headline: Nurses At Chinese Hospital Announce 3-Year Tentative Contract
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Headline: Flight attendants aren’t the only workers facing unprecedented violence on the job: Nurses say they’ve seen a rise in physical and verbal abuse from agitated patients
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Headline: Hospitals have spent more than $3B on personal protective equipment since COVID-19 began
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Headline: Mission Health investigated by North Carolina Department of Labor, findings expected this week
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article254985742.html
Headline: Kaiser Roseville health care workers to protest staffing: ‘We are at our limit’
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https://abcnews.go.com/Health/hailed-heroes-health-care-workers-now-face-rash/story?id=80476845
Headline: Once hailed as heroes, health care workers now face a rash of violence
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Headline: OSHA inspecting Mission Hospital nurses’ complaint alleging lax COVID-19 measures
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https://nurse.org/education/implicit-bias-racial-disparities-healthcare/
Headline: Nursing Programs Use Implicit Bias Training to Address Racial Disparities in Healthcare
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Headline: Allina WestHealth union nurses set strike date
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Headline: Portage Pointe Nurses Rally for New Contract and Putting Patients First
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Headline: UPHS nurses rally for higher pay: Say raises necessary to retain, recruit nurses
