Many residents at an Albion Park nursing home do not feel safe due to the “intrusive and aggressive” behaviour of other residents, while others suspect staff of stealing their personal items. These are just two of the damning findings contained in a federal government agency report into Ridgeview Aged Care which was released this week. The home met just eight of the expected 44 national standards of care after an audit by the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency (AACQA) in June. The home’s accreditation as a provider of aged care services will be revoked in seven weeks unless it meets all standards. According to the AACQA report, several areas of health and personal care were lacking at the home. Medication was “not managed safely or correctly” with staff administering prescribed medications without the supervision of a registered nurse. Pain management was also not sufficient, with residents “not as free as possible from pain” and the effectiveness of analgesia not adequately monitored. Alarmingly the report found that “care recipients do not receive adequate nourishment or hydration” and that unexpected weight loss of some residents had not been managed.
August 15, 2018
A Sydney nursing assistant who struck an elderly dementia patient with her own rubbish has been sentenced to at least six months in jail but could serve the sentence by way of home detention. Dane Maree Gray, 59, had pleaded guilty to assaulting the vulnerable and “entirely dependent” then-85-year-old woman at The Poplars nursing home in North Epping in August 2017. Magistrate Robyn Denes in Burwood Local Court today sentenced Gray to 17 months’ imprisonment with a non-parole period of six months, but adjourned the matter until September 20 to assess her eligibility for home detention.
August 15, 2018
A s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) from Jefferson Bell against the Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Limited has been dismissed by Fair Work Commissioner Saunders in Newcastle on 14 August 2018.
August 15, 2018
An application by Southern Cross Group Services Pty Ltd (s.120 – Application to vary redundancy pay for other employment or incapacity to pay) will be reviewed by Fair Work Deputy President Bull in Conference Room 14A and 14B – Level 14 in Sydney at noon.
August 15, 2018
The family of an aged care nurse killed in a fatal car crash by a young woman on drugs say they are devastated she has escaped conviction on a drug driving charge. Kay Shaylor, 62, was killed on September 3, 2016, when her car was hit head-on by a Commodore being driven by Bianca Harrington, who was 20 years old at the time. Harrington’s Learner licence had been suspended at the time of the crash. Blood tests showed Harrington had taken a cocktail of drugs including amphetamine, methamphetamine and cannabis. In a police interview she admitted smoking five bongs of pot the night before. Judge Rodney Madgwick said he couldn’t be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that Harrington was “very substantially impaired.”
August 15, 2018
A s.394 (Unfair dismissal) application from Peter Frewen citing Jungarni-Jutiya Indigenous Corporation trading as Jungarni-Jutiya Corporation has been refused by Fair Work Deputy President Binet in Perth on 2 August 2018.
August 14, 2018
Dale Fisher appointed CEO of Silver Chain.
August 14, 2018
The Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers and the Friendly Society Medical Association Ltd are in a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) arm wrestle before Fair Work Deputy President Sams in his Sydney chambers.
