You must be working at a public hospital in Victoria, then. Other states do not have a ratio law. And Vic's ratios do not apply to private hospitals. Sometimes I will not even be allocated four --...
You have that right, Nambour. Holidays aren't forbidden, just harder to come by. I have put in a request. I don't like to be confronting, and with the new IR regime, I am less likely to push. The NUM...
I know on my ward at Royal Melbourne, the DON just posted a notice that "due to staff shortages, holiday availability will be curtailed after June, until further notice." My wife had her heart set on...
I'm waiting for handover on how IR protests in your cities were! In Melbourne, I'd estimate there were 50,000 people in the CBD tops. On the platform, they said 150K, but the speakers always...
Not entirely silly. At my hospital, night duty shifts are 10 hours: 2100 to 0730. (Day shift is 0700 to 1530, and arvo is 1300 to 2130. The 2-hour overlap is used for education, paperwork, etc.) Some...
Melbourne is the best, because the state of Victoria is the only one in Oz to have mandatory patient-to-nurse ratios. If you work in a public hospital, that is. Take home pay, after the Treasurer...
I am SO glad to be in Australia! The subject of religion almost never comes up here. It seems to be behind everything in the U.S. Here, we don't have people referring to "God bless this" or "I'll pray...
The question is, what did you learn from this? One thing should be "Never leave a drug unattended." Better yet, "Never trust a patient." Bless their hearts, but I regard patients similar to sheep (not...
there was a story in the age a few months ago that kraft, the american corporation that makes vegemite, was moving production to china and closing the factory in south melbourne. maybe they should...