An application for approval of the Back In Motion Health Group – Back In Motion Seville Grove Enterprise Agreement 2017 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is the preserve of Commissioner Gregory at 3pm.
May 8, 2017
A heartless nurse has been banned for life after stealing money from two hospital patients, including a dying woman, forging registration certificates and injecting patients with drugs against direct orders. Danielle Jones committed eight separate incidents of professional misconduct over almost four years to 2015, in what the South Australian Health Practitioners Tribunal described as “a grave departure” from expected nursing standards. And in a damning judgment, the tribunal found that Jones had shown “no remorse or insight” into her flagrant dishonesty, forgery of documents and the flouting of conditions on her licence. “She clearly is not a fit and proper person to be registered,” tribunal president Michael Ardlie said. “By her lack of participation in these proceedings and in not providing any explanation for what should be regarded as extremely serious conduct, (Jones) was clearly someone who had shown absolutely no insight into her behaviour at all and exhibited no demonstration of remorse.” The tribunal has banned Jones from working in any capacity within the medical industry, after receiving information she had been trying to qualify as a paramedic. The most serious incidents involved the theft of cash from two female patients at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on the same day in April 2013. Jones was caught red-handed stealing $700 from the wallet of a patient after she also stole $20 from the purse of a seriously ill woman, who died several weeks later. The Tribunal took action against Jones over repeated complaints of professional misconduct between 2011 and 2015. When working at Ashford Hospital as a student nurse in August 2011, Jones injected a patient with blood-thinning drug clexane against specific directions, then lied that a senior nurse had supervised her. After changing her version of events several times, Jones finally admitted she had injected the patient against specific warnings that student nurses could only do so under strict supervision. After a formal warning, Jones again committed the same offence at Royal Adelaide Hospital in May 2012, by giving a patient Ibuprofen, then forging the initials of a senior nurse on the patient’s medical chart. Again, Jones tried to lie her way out by claiming she had “accidentally” written the senior nurse’s initials before covering them with her own. Later in 2012, Jones forged a certificate falsely claiming she had completed a professional development course in an application to work with the Nursing Agency of SA. In November 2012, the Nursing and Midwifery Board imposed conditions on Jones’ registration, before learning she had been working at the QEH for the past six months, and had failed to notify the hospital of the restrictions on her licence. In April 2013, Jones was caught by a female patient in the QEH holding the woman’s wallet and an amount of cash, before stuffing the money inside her top and then into a pillow case.
May 8, 2017
An application for approval of the Braemar Presbyterian Care (ANMF) Registered Nurses Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be reviewed by Commissioner Lee in his Melbourne chambers at 5pm.
May 8, 2017
The Health Services Union and the Department of Health and Human Services are arguing a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Cribb in Conference Rooms G & H – Level 6 in Melbourne at 4.30pm.
May 5, 2017
Nearly 60 east coast workers caught up in the collapse of Perth-based aged care equipment K Care have been offered employment with the new owners of the business. The Victorian equipment repair operations of K Care have been sold to Cabrini, the Catholic, not-for-profit healthcare group, while the WA and NSW manufacturing assets have been bought by an unnamed South Australian company. Sydney-based receiver Alan Hayes, who was appointed to K Care a month ago, was forced to lay off the company’s 70 staff in Malaga factory two weeks ago, having earlier suspended operations at the plant. There are no plans by the new owner to resume production in Perth. K Care, once part of Hills Industries, made equipment including beds, walking frames, patient slings and shower commodes, for hospitals, aged care homes and medical and community centres.
May 5, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by MIA Victoria Pty Ltd T/A MIA Radiology for its MIA Victoria Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2016 has been granted by Deputy President Gostencnik in Brisbane on 3 May 2017.
May 5, 2017
The Sisters of Our Lady of China Health Care Pty Ltd are again embroiled in a s.773 (Application to deal with an unlawful termination dispute) in front of Commissioner McKenna in Hearing Room 12-2 Level 12 in Sydney (Agawin).
May 5, 2017
Integrated Clinical Oncology Network Pty Ltd is to face a s.773 (Application to deal with an unlawful termination dispute) before Senior Deputy President Hamberger in Conference Room 14A and 14B – Level 14 in Sydney (Squires).
