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.
Global
Headline: ‘Years of Repair’: New Animated Film Imagines the Future to Come Inspired by a Vision of Justice and the Common Good
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Australia
https://au.news.yahoo.com/volunteer-nurses-want-quarantine-paid-234304758–spt.html
Headline: Volunteer nurses to get quarantine pay
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Australia
https://www.miragenews.com/no-confidence-tasmania-is-prepared-to-handle-a-second-covid-outbreak/
Headline: No confidence Tasmania is prepared to handle a second COVID outbreak
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Australia
Headline: Experts say aged care royal commission’s Covid review does not address wider problems
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Australia
Headline: Coronavirus infections in healthcare workers soared past 100 at two hospitals during second wave of the pandemic
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Australia
Headline: NSW government wins battle to freeze pay of public servants for 12 months during pandemic
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Australia
Headline: Public sector wage rise cuts leave Wagga NSWNMA branch nurses Maddison Dowd and Rebecca Deveraux ‘insulted’
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Australia
Headline: QNMU welcomes plans to boost State’s PPE stockpile
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Australia
Headline: Attacker tried to pay off Queensland nurse to drop charges: Report
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Brazil
Manchete: Em reunião na Assembleia Legislativa, servidores da Saúde voltam a cobrar envio do PCCR
Headline: In a meeting in the Legislative Assembly, health workers return to charge the PCCR
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Canada
https://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/09/30/les-debordements-dans-les-urgences-font-peur
Titre: Les débordements dans les urgences font peur
Headline: Overflows in emergencies are scary
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Canada
https://www.nordinfo.com/actualites/cest-pire-que-cetait-soutient-la-fiq/
Titre: «C’est pire que c’était !», soutient la FIQ
Headline: “It’s worse than it was!”, maintains the FIQ
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Canada
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1737089/infirmiere-france-quebec-recrutement-hopital-sorel
Titre: La passion du métier d’infirmière retrouvée grâce au système de santé québécois
Headline: Passion for the nursing profession rediscovered thanks to the Quebec health system
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Canada
Headline: Calgary hospital restricts visitors, postpones surgeries as COVID-19 infections increase
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Canada
Headline: Nine more surgeries postponed, 290 health-care workers isolating due to Foothills Medical Centre outbreak
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Canada
Headline: Nearly 300 health-care workers forced to isolate as COVID-19 outbreaks continue at Calgary hospital
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Canada
https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/news/lack-of-nurses-stressing-red-deer-hospital-staff-says-union/
Headline: Lack of nurses stressing Red Deer hospital staff, says union
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Canada
Headline: Staffing shortages leading to burn-out at Foothills hospital amid COVID-19 outbreaks: Unions
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Canada
Headline: Nurses’ union president pans response to Yorkton hospital outbreak
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Canada
Headline: Series of COVID-19 infections, outbreaks reported in Yorkton
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Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-health-care-workers-positive-1.5744590
Headline: Surge in health-care worker COVID-19 cases causing burnout, nurses union says
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Dominican Republic
https://www.diariosalud.do/noticias/sinatrae-califica-de-inaceptable-acuerdo-entre-gobierno-y-cmd/
Titular: SINATRAE califica de inaceptable acuerdo entre Gobierno y CMD
Headline: SINATRAE calls agreement between the Government and CMD unacceptable
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Greece
http://pasonop.gr/new/2020/09/30/ανάγκη-για-άμεση-αναβολή-των-προγραμμ/
Επικεφαλίδα: ΑΝΑΓΚΗ ΓΙΑ ΑΜΕΣΗ ΑΝΑΒΟΛΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΙΣΜΕΝΩΝ ΕΚΛΟΓΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΝΕ
Headline: “Immediate postponement of scheduled ENE elections needed”
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Ireland
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40056143.html
Headline: INMO: 192 people on trolleys in Irish hospitals with 65 in Limerick University Hospital
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Ireland
Headline: INMO backs decision to publish ethnicity data for healthcare workers who contract Covid-19
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Ireland
Headline: Covid-19: Possible extra restrictions for four counties to be decided by weekend
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Ireland
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/healthandwellbeing/arid-40058051.html
Headline: Three midwives share their experience of giving birth for the first time
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Ireland
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40057457.html
Headline: HSE asked to find extra beds for under pressure Cork hospitals
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Ireland
Headline: 85 nursing vacancies in Covid-19 hit hospitals in Laois, Offaly and Kildare
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Italy
https://radiogold.it/cronaca/243641-nursind-piemonte-infermieri-problemi/
Titolo: Nursind Piemonte: “Ancora carenze sul fronte del fabbisogno del personale”
Headline: Nursind Piemonte: “Still shortages in terms of staff needs”
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Italy
Titolo: Infermieri. Esonero notti e 34 ore settimanli. Il contratto secondo NurSind
Headline: Nurses. Exemption of nights and 34 hours per week. The contract according to NurSind
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Italy
Titolo: Asp Ragusa, il NurSind: insulti al personale, potenziare subito la sorveglianza
Headline: Asp Ragusa, the NurSind: insults to staff, immediately strengthen surveillance
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Italy
Titolo: Asp di Ragusa, il Nursind: «Sia potenziata la sorveglianza contro le aggressioni»
Headline: ASP of Ragusa, the Nursind: “Surveillance against aggression is strengthened”
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Kenya
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/health-workers-at-kenya-s-biggest-hospital-strike-over-pay-1.1500420
Headline: Health Workers at Kenya’s Biggest Hospital Strike Over Pay
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Kenya
https://www.the-star.co.ke/counties/eastern/2020-09-27-embu-medics-end-fortnight-strike/
Headline: Embu medics end fortnight strike
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New Zealand
Headline: Frontline nurses across the country strike over pay and conditions
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New Zealand
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/300115624/nurses-union-appoints-first-mori-vice-president
Headline: Nurses union appoints first Māori vice president
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New Zealand
Headline: Primary Health Care Workers Ballot For Further Industrial Action If No Quick Resolution
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Paraguay
Titular: Confirman séptimo deceso en sector de enfermería por COVID-19
Headline: Seventh death in nursing sector due to COVID-19 confirmed
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Paraguay
https://www.launion.com.py/covid-19-enfermeras-con-cansancio-fisico-y-mental-146490.html
Titular: COVID-19: Enfermeras con cansancio físico y mental
Headline: COVID-19: Nurses with physical and mental fatigue
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Paraguay
Titular: Enfermeros piden contratación de personal y afirman estar saturados
Headline: Nurses request hiring of personnel and claim to be overworked
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Paraguay
http://www.cronica.com.py/2020/09/28/enfermeros-ya-no-dan-abasto-piden-refuerzo/
Titular: Enfermeros ya no dan abasto y piden refuerzo
Headline: Nurses can no longer meet demand and ask for reinforcement
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Paraguay
Titular: COVID-19: Paraguay supera los 40.000 casos, mientras suman otros 23 fallecidos
Headline: COVID-19: Paraguay exceeds 40,000 cases, while adding another 23 deaths
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Philippines
Headline: Solon seeks hazard pay for all frontliners, essential workers during health emergencies
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Portugal
Manchete: Enfermeiros algarvios entregam petição na Assembleia da República na quarta-feira
Headline: Algarvian nurses deliver petition to Parliament on Wednesday
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Portugal
Manchete: Enfermeiros açorianos desconvocam greve devido a “empenho” de Vasco Cordeiro
Headline: Azorean nurses call for strike due to Vasco Cordeiro’s “effort”
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Portugal
Manchete: Enfermeiros dos Açores congratulam-se com decisão sobre contagem de tempo de serviço
Headline: Azorean nurses welcome decision on service time count
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Portugal
https://www.abrilabril.pt/trabalho/aumentos-salariais-e-direitos-para-ultrapassar-crise
Manchete: Aumentos salariais e direitos para ultrapassar a crise
Headline: Wage increases and entitlements to overcome the crisis
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South Africa
Headline: Public sector unions launch campaign to challenge govt over wage disputes
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Spain
https://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2020/09/28/5f71c5cefc6c833b1d8b4631.html
Titular: Satse convoca huelga indefinida de la Enfermería pública madrileña a partir del 7 de octubre
Headline: Satse calls an indefinite strike of the Madrid Public Nursing from October 7
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Spain
Titular: “Las UCIs de Madrid están ya casi al 100% de su capacidad”
Headline: “The Madrid ICUs are now almost 100% of their capacity”
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Spain
Titular: Más enfermeras para Salamanca
Headline: More nurses for Salamanca
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Spain
Titular: Los profesionales de enfermería rechazan la realización de las pruebas del coronavirus en las farmacias
Headline: Nurses reject testing for coronavirus in pharmacies
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Spain
Titular: SATSE ve una necesidad urgente enfermeras escolares, “su salud, tu tranquilidad”
Headline: SATSE sees an urgent need for school nurses, “your health, your peace of mind”
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Spain
https://www.larazon.es/sociedad/20201001/bc5hzinvdfgi3daewt7ljfcxi4.html
Titular: Médicos y enfermeras denuncian la “falta de diálogo y de interés” de Sanidad en plena pandemia de la Covid-19
Headline: Doctors and nurses denounce the “lack of dialogue and interest” of Health in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic
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United Kingdom
Headline: Give nurses ‘easy access’ to flu jab during shifts, says RCN
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United Kingdom
Headline: Nearly 5,000 working days lost due to Covid at Gloucestershire Health and Care Trust
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United Kingdom
Headline: News round-up: Catch-up on September’s major nursing stories
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United Kingdom
Headline: Poor pay and bullying see large numbers of nurses wanting to leave the profession
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United Kingdom
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54332539
Headline: Coronavirus: NHS faces pandemic ‘triple whammy’ this winter
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United States
https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2020/09/28/time-most-influential
Headline: TIME’s ‘100 Most Influential’: Which health care leaders made the list?
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United States
https://nurse.org/articles/time-magazine-nurse/
Headline: 2 Nurses Named as Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020
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United States
Headline: Investors Extracted $400 Million From a Hospital Chain That Sometimes Couldn’t Pay for Medical Supplies or Gas for Ambulances
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United States
https://www.businessinsider.com/national-nurses-united-213-nurses-died-from-covid-19-2020-9
Headline: Union finds that at least 213 registered nurses have died of COVID-19, more than half of them nurses of color
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United States
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/938266
Headline: COVID-19 Has Killed More Than 1700 Healthcare Workers: Report
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United States
Headline: Another Immigrant Prisoner Dies from COVID-19; Nurses Union Says U.S. Failed to Protect Medical Workers
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United States
https://nypost.com/2020/09/28/new-data-shows-how-many-health-care-workers-have-died-from-covid-19/
Headline: Here’s how many health care workers have died from COVID-19
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United States
Headline: N95 mask shortage scares health care workers ahead of projected COVID-19 spike
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United States
Headline: More than 1,700 U.S. healthcare workers have died from COVID-19, nurses’ union says
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United States
Headline: New Report Reveals Widespread Government Failure to Track and Report Data on Covid-19 Deaths, Testing, and Infections
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United States
Headline: Mission Hospital RNs have voted to unionize. What happens now?
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United States
Headline: Nurses’ union alleges lack of transparency on COVID-19 deaths by national, state governments
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United States
http://njtoday.net/2020/09/29/nurses-blame-trump-federal-state-governments-for-covid-deaths/
Headline: Nurses blame Trump, federal & state governments for Covid deaths
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United States
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/coronavirus/article246099600.html
Headline: COVID-19 cases among health care workers under-reported by CDC, nurses union says
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United States
Headline: The coronavirus has killed over 1,700 healthcare workers in U.S.: nurses union
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United States
https://www.escalontimes.com/news/county-health-system-nurses-planning-five-day-strike/
Headline: County Health System Nurses Planning For Five-Day Strike
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United States
Headline: New California law will force providers to create PPE stockpiles
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United States
Headline: Gov. Newsom Signs Bill Requiring Hospitals To Stockpile 45 Days’ Worth Of PPE
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United States
Headline: Advocate Aurora states ‘It is undeniable: Racism is a public health crisis’
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United States
https://peoplesworld.org/article/barrett-on-the-bench-bad-news-for-workers/
Headline: Barrett on the bench: Bad news for workers
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United States
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hr/8-hospital-union-conflicts-agreements.html
Headline: 8 hospital-union conflicts, agreements
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United States
https://www.medpagetoday.com/nursing/nursing/88812
Headline: COVID Exacts High Toll Among Filipino Nurses
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United States
Headline: Gov’t failure to track Covid data puts health workers’ lives at risk — new report
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United States
Headline: More than half of nurses who died of COVID-19 are people of color, nurse union says
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United States
Headline: Orlando Health completes purchase of Bayfront Health St. Petersburg
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United States
Headline: Nurses and other union workers authorize Oct. 7 strike against East Bay hospitals
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United States
https://www.laprogressive.com/tax-the-rich-2/
Headline: Tax the Rich, Expand the Vote on California’s Ballot
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United States
Headline: Letters: I’ve chosen my candidate for council; Nurses want a fair contract (Opinion)
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United States
Headline: Children’s Minnesota could close ASC because of procedure volume declines
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United States
https://labornotes.org/blogs/2020/09/hospital-workers-fight-job-cuts-duluths-biggest-employer
Headline: Hospital Workers Fight Job Cuts at Duluth’s Biggest Employer
