A s.217 (Enterprise agreement) application sought by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation involving St Vincent’s Care Services (Victoria/Tasmania) ANMF Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been granted by Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Melbourne on 2 March 2018.
March 5, 2018
“There is not a full awareness of the training and skills of the person that gives them their anaesthetic.” Professor Scott said this view was sometimes perpetuated in popular culture, when television scriptwriters forgot to include the anaesthetist in depictions of surgery or resuscitations. “The character is missing or they are just an anonymous person who’s up the end and the surgeon is saving the life,” Professor Scott said. “But in reality, we are keeping the patient alive while the surgeon does the necessary stuff. “It’s not only frustrating, but it’s also misleading to the public.” The director of the anaesthesia and pain department at Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital said colloquially anyone providing anaesthesia in Australia could call themselves an anaesthetist, including GP anaesthetists and nurses who provided sedation. He said a name change could clear up this confusion. “If the only person who can be called an anaesthesiologist is someone who had specialist training, that would just simplify things,” Professor Scott said. “The ‘ology’ implies special knowledge and research.” If Australia’s anaesthetists were to become anaesthesiologists, it would bring them in line with most of their peers across the globe, including in the US, China, most of Europe, Singapore and Malaysia.
March 2, 2018
The National Disability and Insurance Agency has chosen former IAG technology chief Ian Frew as its chief information officer.
March 2, 2018
Outcare Incorporated is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) in front of Fair Work Deputy President Clancy in his Melbourne chambers (Zanetic).
March 1, 2018
Excelcare Australia Limited will defend a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Booth in his Brisbane chambers at 11am (Millar).
March 1, 2018
Staff at the disgraced Oakden aged-care home were manipulative, incompetent and would sabotage any efforts to improve standards in the lead-up to the 2008 murder of resident Graham Rollbusch, an inquest has heard. On Wednesday, State Coroner Mark Johns was told the Oakden facility — which was today slammed by ICAC Commissioner Bruce Lander in a report — had been described by temporary nurses as “a zoo”. Mr Johns is holding an inquest into the death of palliative care patient Mr Rollbusch, 70, who was attacked by dementia sufferer Peter Palmer in early 2008.
March 1, 2018
Loewn Steel and business advisory leader Marc Makrid will both join the ECH board.
March 1, 2018
A s.185 (Enterprise Agreement) application by Tenterfield Care Centre Limited for its The Tenterfield Care Centre Limited NSWNMA and HSU NSW Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020 has been approved by Fair Work Commissioner Saunders in Melbourne on 28 February 2018,.
