An application for approval of the Sunnyfield Shared Living Group Homes Enterprise Agreement 2017-2018 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Fair Work Deputy President Kovacic in his ACT chambers today.
March 20, 2018
A Sydney nurse who spent three weeks in a coma after contracting a mystery illness has died, with hospital authorities still working to determine what struck him down. Russell Marsh, 39, fell ill with acute respiratory and kidney failure two days after complaining of an incident at his workplace, Fairfield Hospital, on February 12. The father-of-one, who was a registered nurse in Fairfield Hospital’s emergency ward was then placed on life support as his condition worsened.
March 20, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise Agreement) application from Hobart District Nursing Service Inc for its Hobart District Nursing Service Inc Nurses Agreement 2017 has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner Lee in Melbourne on 19 March 2018.
March 20, 2018
All emergency department staff at Broome Hospital are to undertake self-defence lessons in the wake of new figures showing they deal with about 10 incidents each week involving alcohol or drug-fuelled violence from people seeking treatment. Figures from the WA Country Health Service reveal there were 488 reported incidents of violence out of 24,354 presentations in 2017. That equates to 2 per cent, or about 41 people every month.
March 20, 2018
The operator of a Latrobe aged care home where six residents died during last year’s horror flu outbreak says it expects all its staff to get flu vaccinations unless there is a medical reason not to. Uniting AgeWell, which operates Strathdevon at Latrobe, said it had implemented an enhanced flu vaccination and infection control program to ensure all its aged care communities were well prepared for the flu season. Uniting AgeWell chief executive Andrew Kinnersly said immunisation clinics would be held in April and May to ensure employees had easy access to free vaccinations.
March 20, 2018
Pay rises in the property industry are outstripping other sectors, with junior staff enjoying the best gains and companies moving to quarterly salary reviews to protect their best employees from poachers. A range of positions reported healthy pay rises, including assistant contract administrators in the building, design and construction sector, who saw a median 3.5 per cent pay increase to $81,000. Assistant village managers working in retirement living and aged care had a 3.3 per cent increase to $68,000.
March 20, 2018
This week NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard, unveiling the State Government’s flu strategy, said that health professionals – including “medical staff, nurses, doctors, allied health staff” – working in the state’s most vulnerable hospital wards will receive a compulsory flu shot. These wards include neonatal, cancer and intensive care wards. The move sparked a call from the Immunisation Coalition to extend compulsory flu shots outside NSW and across all health workers. The Coalition says that health care workers have a duty of care to protect vulnerable patients from the threat of flu.
March 20, 2018
The Whanganui District Health Board has offered apologies to the family of an elderly woman who died of complications after district nurses failed to get urgent help for a deteriorating leg wound. Health and Disability commissioner Anthony Hill upheld complaints of inadequate care in a decision released on Monday. The woman’s condition and pain levels grew worse while waiting for a hospital appointment, and after attempts to save her leg, it was amputated below the knee and she died of complications at another hospital. Health board nursing director Sandy Blake said the board and one of the nurses involved in the 80-year-old’s care had formally apologised, and a second nurse had retired. The board had also improved systems to avoid repeating shortcomings identified by the commissioner. One problem was that three staff had independently assessed referrals for the woman, each unaware that there were others, and that her condition was getting worse.
