With the vaccine rollout continuing to fall further behind targets, some aged care homes have still not administered a single dose – to staff or residents. Now, one facility in St Kilda, Victoria, has started to push back.
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Imagine … you are attending to a resident one day, and you suddenly find them unresponsive and not breathing. You believe the resident has a ‘do not resuscitate’ (DNR) order in place, but it’s not documented on your handover sheet and you have to make the critical decision to either; leave the resident whilst you go and find...
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The assistant secretary of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation says aged care operators see medication administration as a “task that anyone can do”, despite industry awareness that medication errors are a serious problem.
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