A male mental health nurse who had sex with a vulnerable female patient has been struck off the nursing register. In its verdict published after an earlier Wellington hearing, the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal has also censured the nurse for his unethical behaviour and ordered him to pay $9920 towards the costs of his prosecution. The nurse had “exploited” the woman’s troubles with alcohol by giving her wine, the lawyers representing the Health and Disability Commissioner’s prosecutor told the tribunal. His name has been suppressed, to protect the patient, whose name is also suppressed. The nurse, who had been registered for 32 years, was working as a forensic court liaison nurse for an unnamed district health board. The woman, a client of its community mental health service a number of times, had a pending court appearance for which she required the nurse’s services. She had a history of major depressive disorder, generalised anxiety and panic attacks, thinking about suicide, and alcohol issues. She was particularly vulnerable to exploitation after drinking alcohol.
November 10, 2016
Former Westpac Pacific Fair home finance manager David St Pierre has confessed to cheating elderly and vulnerable customers out of millions of dollars in a dodgy investment scheme run on the Gold Coast between 2008 and 2013. The former award-winning employee pleaded guilty to three counts of using his position at Westpac dishonestly, with the intention to gain an advantage for himself or others. The loans totalled about $2.5 million. St Pierre was originally charged with seven counts of fraud and was expected to face an eight-day trial later this month, with 11 witnesses to give evidence.
November 10, 2016
An application by Glasshouse Country Care Association (Sch. 3, Item 15 – Application by agreement to terminate collective agreement-based transitional instrument) will be determined by Fair Work Commissioner Simpson in his Brisbane Chambers.
November 10, 2016
A nurse found guilty of murdering two women with lethal doses of insulin had previously been investigated for injecting the same medication into patients who did not need it during her problematic career. Megan Jean Haines, 49, was stripped of her nurse’s registration in 2008 after it emerged she had given insulin to non-diabetic patients on two separate occasions at a medical centre in Victoria. Six years later she used this same method to murder two women at a NSW North Coast nursing home after learning she was the subject of a potentially career-ending complaints investigation.
November 10, 2016
The Mildura Medical Imaging Pty Ltd T/A Sunraysia Medical Imaging Pty Ltd application for its Mildura Medical Imaging Pty Ltd trading as Sunraysia Medical Imaging Pty Ltd Health Professionals and Support Services Enterprise Agreement 2016 has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Sydney.
November 10, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has formally approved the application by SwanCare Group Incorporated for its Swancare Group Incorporated Health Services Union of Western Australia (HSUWA) Enterprise Agreement 2016.
November 10, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has said yes to the Heyfield Hospital Incorporated application for its Heyfield Hospital Inc Health and Allied Enterprise Agreement 2016.
November 10, 2016
The Calvary Retirement Communities Hunter-Manning Ltd T/A Calvary Retirement Community Cessnock Ltd and Calvary Retirement Community Ryde Pty Ltd application for its Calvary Retirement Community (New South Wales) and the Health Services Union – General Services Enterprise Agreement 2016 has been stamped by Fair Work Commissioner Johns in Sydney.
