A former nurse has pleaded guilty to the degrading and humiliating filming of an elderly dementia patient she was assigned to care for at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide. Diosa Navarro Rankine admitted in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Wednesday to filming the partially-clothed elderly woman during a conversation with her in her room in February 2015.
May 12, 2017
The Health Services Union and Healthscope Ltd have a (s.739 – Application to deal with a dispute) for Commissioner Cirkovic to determine.
May 12, 2017
An application by Healthscope Operations Limited (s.217 – Application to vary an agreement to remove an ambiguity or uncertainty) is to be determined by Fair Work Commissioner Cirkovic in Hearing Room 8, First Floor in Davey St Hobart at 9.30am.
May 12, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Ramsay Health Care Australia Pty Ltd T/A Greenslopes Private Hospital for its Greenslopes Private Hospital, Nurses, Midwives and the Queensland Nurses’ Union of Employees Enterprise Agreement 2016-2019 has been ratified by Commissioner Johns in Sydney on 10 May 2017.
May 11, 2017
Estia Health is still bogged down with a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner Platt in Conference Room 6a – Level 6 in Adelaide (Brackley).
May 11, 2017
A Tasmanian nurse has been permanently banned from caring for people after gross misconduct which included stealing money from a dying hospital patient. Over a four-year period, mostly in South Australia, Danielle Maree Jones committed eight acts of professional misconduct. The SA Health Practitioners Tribunal found she forged registration certificates, injected patients with drugs against direct orders, stole money from two hospital patients and made false claims to investigators. Jones, who subsequently relocated to Tasmania, was also found to have lied about a prior suspension when she applied for nurses registration in Hobart in 2015. In handing down its decision the tribunal described Jones’s actions as a “grave departure from the standards expected of a professional nurse”. Her failure to participate in the proceedings against her prompted this rebuke from tribunal president Michael Ardlie: “She has no remorse or insight into her behaviour and clearly she is not a fit and proper person to be registered.” “The respondent is reprimanded in the strongest possible terms,” he said. The tribunal heard that while working at Adelaide’s Ashford Hospital in 2011 as a student nurse Jones injected a patient with blood-thinning drug clexane against specific directions. In 2013 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, also in Adelaide, Jones stole from two female patients. One of the patients caught Jones in the act of stealing $700 from her wallet. On the same day she was caught stealing $20 from a patient’s wallet she told the woman, who died a few weeks later, that her son must have taken it home. The tribunal permanently cancelled Jones’s registration as a nurse and banned her from ever applying for registration. It expanded the ban to include ambulance services after learning Jones was attempting to qualify as a paramedic. Jones’s last place of practice was listed as Devonport. A Health Department spokesman said Jones had not been employed by the health service in Tasmania.
May 11, 2017
Nulsen Haven Association (Inc) has been served with a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) by ex-staff member D’Vauz.
May 11, 2017
Brockman House Inc is to defend a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) instigated by a staffer (Reilly).
