An application for approval of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service Nursing Enterprise Agreement Queensland 2017 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Commissioner Johns in Hearing Room 4 in Brisbane at 11am.
April 6, 2017
The Queensland Nurses’ Union (QNU) has warned aged care facilities are understaffed and not providing basic care for residents, with some registered nurses being allocated between 100 and 200 residents each. “It’s a disgrace what is happening in aged care,” QNU secretary Beth Mohle warned. She said a national research project by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) painted a stark picture of understaffed nursing homes, which had motivated the QNU to make submissions to the Australian Law Reform Commission and a Senate Aged Care Inquiry. “The ANMF’s National Aged Care Staffing and Skills Mix Project has found that residents who should be receiving an average of four hours and 18 minutes of care daily are only getting 2.84 hours,’’ Ms Mohle said. The report found staff levels of 30 per cent RNs, 20 per cent enrolled nurses (EN) and 50 per cent personal care workers (PCW) were the minimum skills mix to ensure safe care of elderly residents. “At the moment, PCWs, also known as assistants in nursing, provide the majority of care in aged care facilities,” Ms Mohle said.
April 5, 2017
Australian-based technology solutions company Hills has appointed a new general manager to head its New Zealand business. Chris Whiting, most recently general manager sales for Armourguard Security in New Zealand and Fiji, has been appointed to the role with the task of expanding the company’s operations in the New Zealand market.
April 5, 2017
An application for approval of the Yooralla Allied Services Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Commissioner Roe in his Melbourne chambers today.
April 5, 2017
Gordon Ballantyne says setting up Telstra Health whetted his appetite for the broader health sector but, in taking the top job at Healthscope, he has switched from a disrupter to an incumbent, defending weak earnings growth and share price disappointment. The well regarded former Telstra executive lost out in the race in 2015 to succeed David Thodey as chief executive.
April 5, 2017
Drayton Villas Retirement Village has a new village manager (Scott Burton).
April 5, 2017
An application for approval of the Hill View Aged Care Operational Staff Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be adjudicated by Commissioner Gregory in his Melbourne Chambers at noon.
April 5, 2017
A Singaporean man who worked as a nurse in Melbourne has admitted waking up a patient and sexually assaulting her by applying cream to her genitals. Jefferson Augustine, 34, appeared before the Victorian County Court on Monday after earlier pleading guilty to sexually assaulting three women between 2015 and 2016, including a patient at the hospital where he worked.
