A nurse at one of Adelaide’s major hospitals illegally filmed a sick, elderly woman in her ward, eavesdropped on patients and distributed “degrading” images online, prosecutors allege. In a case that has left senior health officials “appalled”, Flinders Medical Centre enrolled nurse Diosa Navarro Rankine, 50, is charged over the “humiliating” video of a female patient in 2014. Rankine, a Filipino-born mother who is suspended on pay, is also accused of sharing the mobile phone videos on social media. The nurse, of Panorama, in Adelaide’s south, is further charged with “intentionally” using a listening device to record private conversations over a three-month period in 2014 and 2015. The video, since deleted, shows the distressed patient screaming for the nurse to stop filming her in a hospital bed. At one point, the patient, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, labels the nurse a “bastard”. “Go on get out. Just leave me alone,” the patient screams. “Get out you bastard.” In faltering English, the woman filming — who prosecutors say is Rankine — replies: “I’m not a bastard. I am a good girl.”
March 17, 2017
An application for approval of the North Eastern Community Hospital Nursing Employees & ANMF Enterprise Agreement 2017 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be adjudicated by Commissioner Gregory in his Melbourne chambers.
March 17, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Independent Living Centre of Western Australia Inc for its Independent Living Centre of WA Inc and Health Services Union (HSUWA) Enterprise Agreement 2016 has been approved by Commissioner Johns in Sydney on 15 March 2017.
March 17, 2017
Anglicare NSW South, NSW West & ACT is facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Vice President Catanzariti in the Wagga Wagga Courthouse 49 Fitzmaurice Street, Wagga Wagga at the behest of Herald-Block.
March 17, 2017
Lobethal & District Aged Homes Inc is preparing to defend a (s.372 – Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Senior Deputy President O’Callaghan in Conference Room 6a – Level 6 in Adelaide (Clarke).
March 17, 2017
Chris Rex’s remaining time as the well remunerated boss of Ramsay Health Care looks sure to be action-packed. Rex announced last month that he was leaving the private hospital operator after nine years in the top job. For now, Ramsay chairman Michael Siddle’s succession plans are as clear as the reasons for ever rising private health premiums. Sensing an opportunity is Labor senator Sam Dastyari, who has evidently decided it’s a good moment for his red house razzle dazzle. Yesterday, while Rex was apparently overseas selling his recent half-year results to investors, Dastyari took to social media for a Daily Show-style take-down of Rex. Rex’s crime? Being a paid a lot and, apparently, refusing to attend a Senate committee this week that will look at why costs for replacement knees, hips and pacemakers are so expensive in the private system. “Mr Rex. Mate. Bloke to bloke, come and have a chat. Come to our hearings,” said Dastyari to the camera. Ramsay’s people said characterising Rex’s no-show as a “refusal” isn’t fair. They said no official invitation from Dastyari’s office was made directly to Rex, only a call last week through to the company’s switchboard followed by an email. Well, any confusion seems to have been cleared up by Dastyari’s video. Rex is very much invited to the committee, which meets in Canberra today. The Ramsay boss — who advised the ASX on Friday that he had sold $35m worth of his stock, as his CFO Bruce Soden revealed he had sold $7.5m — seems to be in Europe at the moment. So that won’t happen. But if Rex refuses to attend future gatherings, Dastyari has made it known the Labor and Greens majority committee consider flexing its powers to make a summons. Other healthcare bosses who could also be summoned include Bupa boss Dwayne Crombie, Healthscope’s Robert Cooke and Medibank’s Craig Drummond. No word yet on any potential summons of NIB chief executive Mark Fitzgibbon, who as it happens is the brother of Labor shadow minister Joel Fitzgibbon.
March 17, 2017
Australian Retirement Holdings Pty Ltd has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) to defend before Commissioner McKenna in Hearing Room 12-2 – Level 12 in Sydney (Priest).
March 17, 2017
Their act may not have been a big hit at bingo nights, but the naughty nannies are gearing up for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Thomas Jaspers, who plays Edith Vale in ‘A Visit with Nan in a Caravan’, said that being raised in a nursing home gave him a rare insight into elderly women.
