An update produced by the HCA Online Learning Team In the past, many nurses in Australia remember working as Student Nurses in part-time roles in Residential Aged Care and taking their own single pair of rubber gloves to use at...
What could Aged Care audits and the Komodo Dragon possibly have in common?
Infection Control is certainly the phrase of the moment, and the spread of COVID-19 has shown that there is a lack of understanding by many in the aged care sector about Infection control. No one wants to be the highlighted...
The adage of "if it isn't documented it didn't happen" has evolved in the last two decades from when the phrase was thrown around liberally. In a work environment that demands accountability, and more documentation dependent workplace than ever before,...
Three themes that regularly were raised by those giving evidence at the Aged Care Royal Commission were the basis of what a is now Standard 3 (3a) in the New Aged Care Quality Standards. It was a lack of understanding...
