tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17391176.post91850563707350392..comments2024-03-10T00:38:42.248+11:00Comments on CopperWitch: This should not be happeningJahTehhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02007730071564639411noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17391176.post-51676392415492812282010-08-28T17:23:35.303+10:002010-08-28T17:23:35.303+10:00Therese, it's usually the upper levels of hosp...Therese, it's usually the upper levels of hospital management who are getting the gravy with swish offices and shiny cars.JahTehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02007730071564639411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17391176.post-17276630644895645602010-08-25T13:10:49.128+10:002010-08-25T13:10:49.128+10:00NSW public hospitals spend on an average of $3 a d...NSW public hospitals spend on an average of $3 a day to feed very sick people! 75% of long term pateints are malnourished according to the garling inquiry - even the tube feeding for ICU is set at a "standard" level which provides little protein whereas private hospitals privide a higher quality of liquid feeds...Don developed malnutrition in the first weeks of fiver weeks till he died - not because he was tube fed but because the bastards in Parliament house have spent too much and this is an area where they can get away with cost cutting - its so widespread this malnutrition it is almost par for the course...so pleased your mum is fed well at leastMiddle Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09962830669606760640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17391176.post-83054474656235716972010-08-25T10:42:33.942+10:002010-08-25T10:42:33.942+10:00River, it's all about the bottom line of profi...River, it's all about the bottom line of profit. My sister works at a public age care and gets a lot more money than private but the work is a young person's game.<br /><br />Jayne, the food down there is terrific, they enjoy it and they get a choice. One lady has just come from the home that I was looking at for mum and she is blind. She said the smell of what she was supposed to eat was bad enough without seeing it.<br /><br />Annie O, it's a small home, 30 beds with room for more so perhaps that's the way ahead instead of enormous homes that look good outside but are absolutely shit on the inside.<br /><br />Link, the turnover at this place is minimal even with the lousy pay because it's a happy place to work in. How many places can say that.<br />Bf's sounds like the nursing home from hell.JahTehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02007730071564639411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17391176.post-76483130088002816672010-08-25T08:49:05.303+10:002010-08-25T08:49:05.303+10:00BF works as an AIN in an end of the line nursing h...BF works as an AIN in an end of the line nursing home--the one for recalcitrant jewellery thieves, wife bashers, park bench drunks, decrepit drug and alcohol addled rockers and assorted crims, most of whom have been 'expelled' from nursing homes up market. Fun fun fun. He recently got a pay rise from $16 per hour to $18. (He could earn more packing shelves at Coles). It's really hard to imagine him giving suppositries . . . but he does and has been there for three years, so he must be doing something right. The food there sounds--(lowercase) ok. BF eats it, but that's not saying much. <br /><br />Compare the situation he works in and the pay he gets to my sister (say) who picks up contract work with big pharma for $90 per hour. It's a completely nonsensical world we live in.Linkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12346948772651971988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17391176.post-66293673423250677712010-08-24T23:29:26.537+10:002010-08-24T23:29:26.537+10:00in private rooms in private hospitals even people ...in private rooms in private hospitals even people with Blue Ribbon health insurance can starve because meals are placed before them that their bandaged splinted arms cannot handle.<br /><br />2. very elderly people who are free to choose their own diet, happily eat nutritionless rubbish. I know one who lives on nutrigrain's 54% sugar.<br /><br />3. your mum is lucky to be in that lovely place.Ann ODynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159263330547329077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17391176.post-11684520052637447232010-08-24T17:08:33.046+10:002010-08-24T17:08:33.046+10:00Darls, it's more than the public vs private se...Darls, it's more than the public vs private sector thing, it's the gap between the pay acute sector nurses get compared to those who work in aged care (which is sweet f.a), hence why there is a gazllion untrained staff in homes doing things I don't even want to think about.<br />An owner of a private nursing home told me that the only way to make a stonking great profit in that sector is to rip off the very people you're supposed to care for.<br />Problem is the fresh food is cheaper than the pricey processed crap but the staff are time-poor so can't prepare the fresh and rely on the crap.<br />It's been going on long before I did my training and it'll continue on long after I'm pushing up daisies cos govt depts ring to warn them of impending inspections and things don't always get inspected too closely in case they're forced to actually 'do something about it'.Jaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02851305238478213940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17391176.post-24682969197885631472010-08-24T16:18:11.787+10:002010-08-24T16:18:11.787+10:00P.S. $5 per day for three meals per person?
That ...P.S. $5 per day for three meals per person? <br />That sounds like soup, soup, soup, with an occasional spoonful of Deb Instant Mashed Potato. <br />Truly sad. Even sadder that there just isn't enough staff to ensure those who can't feed themselves get helped.Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17391176.post-91875805896905541092010-08-24T16:14:43.548+10:002010-08-24T16:14:43.548+10:00Every time I read another article about poorly per...Every time I read another article about poorly performing nursing homes I get really p***ed off at our government. They don't care because they have their overly endowed pensions firmly set in place, so can afford the very best for themselves in their dotage. In my opinion these elderly people who once worked and paid the taxes that gave these buggers their generous allowances should be much better cared for. When I'm too old to be living on my own, I'll be fronting up at my K's house with my possessions. I know she'll be glad to have me because of my largeish book and dvd collection that we can watch together, along with her own dvd collection. Also because she likes to cook and I like to wash dishes.Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com