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Injured nurse awarded six figure pay-out
An aged care nurse has been awarded a large damages award for injuries sustained at an understaffed nursing home As there are no current compliance’s or mandates that indicate staff to resident ratios within residential aged care homes, this may not beRead More…
Not one Aged Care bed or Community Care package was offered in the Wide Bay Region
This is not uncommon at present and we have been hearing it for some time. There are actually some homes that are ‘doing away’ with their Low Care ‘beds’ as the funding that they receive from the Government is notRead More…
Nurse Reveals the Top 5 Regrets People Make on their Deathbed
For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot whenRead More…
Carers – Where Would Australia, the World, be without Them??
All to often we see carers who are stressed, tearful, feeling guilty, anxious, exhausted and just needing a break. They try to be everything to everyone and also take on the full time job of caring for an ageing lovedRead More…