A Hamilton nurse who stole hundreds of dollars from a rest home patient has had her registration cancelled, ending her 44-year career. Eva Martha Harrison, 63, was a registered nurse at Te Puia Springs Hospital on the East Coast when the theft happened.
October 28, 2016
The Paraplegic & Quadriplegic Association of NSW is defending a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Deputy President Booth (Duarte).
October 28, 2016
Ex-Salvation Army worker Robert Burnett was said to be an ‘affectionate, benevolent father figure’ for the children in his care. But there was another, sinister side to the man that led him to remorselessly sexually prey on the most vulnerable of them for more than 20 years as a carer in a Victorian boys’ home. Now, the 77-year-old is likely to die behind bars after he was found guilty of abusing seven boys – aged about seven to 13 – at his home or on camping trips in Victoria from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, sometimes while they slept.
October 28, 2016
Barossa Village Inc has been served notice of a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) lodged by a staffer (Chambers). Commissioner Platt with hear the case in his Adelaide Chambers.
October 28, 2016
A huge blaze which ravaged a house at a retirement complex at St Morris yesterday has been blamed on items left on a stove top, which then ignited. The owners of the Gables of St Morris property were left shocked and shattered by the fire, which caused $300,000 in damage.
October 28, 2016
An application for approval of the Royal Rehab Nurses Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is being reviewed by Commissioner Cribb in Melbourne.
October 28, 2016
A “substantial overdose” of medication by staff contributed to the death of an 88-year-old patient at North Shore Private Hospital in Sydney, an inquest has found. “Quite simply, the nurses gave the wrong dose,” the Deputy State Coroner Magistrate Harriet Grahame concluded. Audrey MacGregor was being treated for pneumonia in October 2013 when she was mistakenly given ten times the prescribed dose of the opioid painkiller hydromorphone.
October 28, 2016
The ACT Government as represented by the Health Directorate is arguing a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) initiated by staffer Scanlan.
