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Mar 31 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Happy nurses after listening to @AlboMP promising to fix the #AgedCareCrisis in his right of reply to the Budget tonight. Image
Ratios in aged care, registered nurses on site 24/7, nutrition standards, 215 minutes of direct care for residents by carers, backing the increased wages for aged care workers with the Fair Work Commission and accountability for every dillar received in Gov funding by providers.
The Labor Party are promising to put the CARE back in #agedcare and implement the Royal Commission recommendations
The gallery went wild. Nurses are the biggest component of the health workforce. We vote. Now we need the country to join us and vote for a Government who will deiver on what they promise.
Fantastic outcomes and hope for older Australians @AbutlerAnnie @AgedCareC @anmf_federal @anmf_actbranch

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I’m a nurse practitioner working in specialist palliative aged care. Let me share with you just a little bit about what happens in a residential aged care facility/‘nursing home’ that doesn’t have registered nurses 24/7 365 days of the year.
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May 22, 2020
Yesterday in met a lady with dementia, the referral was for ‘escalating behaviours and aggression’. Staff have been pushed and shoved and yelled at and are having trouble managing ADLs.
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Dec 18, 2019
1917.
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Dec 6, 2019
January 2003.

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Oct 17, 2019
Today I sat and held the swollen, fluid filled hand of an amazingly stoic 94 year old man who is in his last days of life. I have been helping him with managing symptoms for about 4 months.
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