We know that the topic of staffing ratios has been in the news in the U.S. We are not alone in our fight for safer staffing ratios and quality patient care. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) is also campaigning for mandated staff ratios to protect older nursing home residents stating.
In the absence of mandated ratios, dangerously low-levels of nurse and career staffing continue to put the lives of the elderly at risk.
I feel like sometimes I am on a production line, you don't get enough time to properly care for residents
There are fewer and fewer nurses to care for the increasing number of residents.
...at a time when the profits of aged care providers continue to rise... The ANMF says this shows that the system is all about "profits before people"
