Overview
- Nursing leaders in Spain’s Pontevedra health area, which disclosed Tuesday’s hiring-list figures, reported 1,126 registered nurses but only 23 immediately available to start work.
- Spain’s SATSE union pressed for concrete fixes that include proper professional classification, early retirement based on night‑shift exposure, a relay contract that overlaps a new hire with a retiree, safer nurse‑to‑patient ratios, and pay or time off for the unpaid handover period at shift changes.
- At a SATSE event in Pontevedra, hospital leaders promoted advanced practice nursing and humanized care, saying greater specialization and nurse leadership raise safety and results for patients.
- Mexico’s Social Security Institute recognized more than 136,000 nurses as its director Zoé Robledo met staff and called for greater empowerment of the profession.
- PAHO notes nurses are the largest workforce in the Americas and central to prevention and chronic care, yet local reports describe shortages, heavy workloads, double jobs, and hospital units that exceed the ideal target of about one nurse for every six inpatients.