https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Despite a shortage of nurses in many parts of Sweden, last year 1,300 Swedish nurses obtained Norwegian nursing licenses - one third of all the nurses who graduated in Sweden during the year. https://www.thelocal.se/20140804/one-third-of-swedish-nurses-choose-norway Mon, 04 Aug 2014 09:24:00 +0200 one-third-of-swedish-nurses-choose-norway A Swedish midwife who refused to assist with abortions at a hospital in southern Sweden has reported her former employers for religious discrimination, after they failed to extend her contract. https://www.thelocal.se/20140124/anti-abortion-nurse-claims-religious-bias Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:00:00 +0100 anti-abortion-nurse-claims-religious-bias Swedish nurses have been offered 15,000 kronor ($2,290) to work through their summer holidays to fight staff shortages, a move the health care union said could be "devastating" to their ability to take care of patients in Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20130607/48376 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:09:00 +0200 48376 A Swedish appeals court has freed a nurse who dismissed the emergency call from a 23-year-old who later died of a ruptured spleen. https://www.thelocal.se/20130411/47290 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:38:00 +0200 47290 A Swedish nurse is fighting a parking ticket he got while stuck in the emergency ward because heavy snow saw the number of accidents go up, a fact that left the ticketing company unimpressed. https://www.thelocal.se/20130410/47264 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:25:00 +0200 47264 A surge of patients suffering from infectious diseases has forced Karolinska University Hospital near Stockholm to postpone planned operations due to a lack of available nurses and beds. https://www.thelocal.se/20130206/46026 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:26:00 +0100 46026 An assistant nurse has been reported after forcing a roll of tape into the mouth of a patient with dementia at a Carema-run nursing home in southern Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20120919/43326 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:37:00 +0200 43326 A male nurse who threatened police with a homemade bomb strapped to his body in Gothenburg three years ago has been given permission to continue working as a nurse. https://www.thelocal.se/20120626/41654 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:06:00 +0200 41654 A Swedish night shift nurse has been fired from a Gothenburg hospital for being high on cannabis and failing to notice a patient's rapidly deteriorating condition. https://www.thelocal.se/20120413/40234 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:19:00 +0200 40234 Patients in a psychiatric clinic in Lund have been without running water for two days after a nearby fire cut off their supply, leaving many mentally ill patients unable to shower or flush the toilet. https://www.thelocal.se/20120411/40190 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:53:00 +0200 40190 Some 500 nursing students in Umeå, in northern Sweden, are taking a stand and demanding higher entry wages. They're encouraging all nurses to turn down any job with a monthly salary of less than 24,000 kronor ($3,500), according to reports in local media. https://www.thelocal.se/20120311/39610 Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:10:00 +0100 39610 The Swedish hospital that advertised for “hot” nurses has been forced to apologize after an international media frenzy and an official discrimination complaint from a 64-year-old man who claimed he was rejected because he was “too wrinkly” and has a "slight limp". https://www.thelocal.se/20120224/39314 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:51:00 +0100 39314 A hospital in Stockholm has published a job advertisement trying to attract nurses who are both qualified and "TV-series hot" in what has been explained as an "attempt to catch people’s attention". https://www.thelocal.se/20120220/39220 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:01:00 +0100 39220 A nurse in south west Sweden has been reprimanded for putting up an X-ray photo of someone's skull on his Facebook page. https://www.thelocal.se/20120203/38904 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:04:00 +0100 38904 A nursing assistant is suspected of having hit a patient with the dementia in the head with a broom. The incident occurred at Skogsliden's geriatric home in Båstad, in southern Sweden, and has been reported to the police. https://www.thelocal.se/20120114/38506 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0100 38506 Nurses at the University Hospital in Linköping, in central Sweden, made to work over the Christmas weekend, were disgruntled to find out that they were given 440 kronor ($64) extra for the trouble, while the doctor on call received an extra 30,000. https://www.thelocal.se/20120111/38436 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:33:00 +0100 38436 A nurse from Lund, in southern Sweden, is in trouble after using a page from confidential medical records for a scribbled note she stuck up in the laundry room in the house where she lives. https://www.thelocal.se/20110721/35080 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:46:00 +0200 35080 Elderly patients at a nursing home had their own vomit pressed down their throats and were given hard pinches and slaps. https://www.thelocal.se/20110706/34778 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:11:00 +0200 34778 A Swedish woman died in hospital after being forced to call for an ambulance four times, according to a report filed with the National Board of Health and Welfare. https://www.thelocal.se/20110601/34118 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:26:00 +0200 34118 A Ukrainian woman who sought a referral for an endocrinologist in Sweden was told to go back to Ukraine after expressing her frustrations to a nurse. https://www.thelocal.se/20110128/31696 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:43:00 +0100 31696