A 92-year-old South Australian woman who sustained a savage attack by another resident in the aged care home where she lived, was “unable to escape” and her carers exercised a “gross dereliction of proper management”, the Coroner has found. The South Australian Coroner Mark Johns handed down his findings into the 2012 death of...
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It is universally understood that human beings are physiologically wired to sleep during the night-time hours, but environments like aged care facilities require the presence of staff regardless of whether the sun is up or down. Shift workers and those that work outside of the natural day/night cycle, do so at the detriment of their...
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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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