How To Safely Wear PPE In Aged Care

The Covid-19 disaster sweeping through aged care has no doubt prompted plenty of family and friends to plan a ‘rescue’ mission for their loved one from a facility. Even before an alarming number of elderly Australians started contracting and or dying from the disease, families were starting to work through the process that could be involved. Read More

The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), is working with the Federal Government, health departments and industry stakeholders on contingency plans to prevent the transmission of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and protect the aged care workforce and vulnerable nursing home residents. The ANMF is warning that urgent, co-ordinated action is needed to... Read More

  The president of the Australian Medical Association, Omar Khorshid, has called for healthcare workers to wear high-grade respirator masks, not just surgical masks, when they are caring for people with COVID-19. Dr Khorshid said higher-grade masks are recommended for healthcare workers treating patients with cognitive or behavioural issues or workers exposed to “high numbers... Read More