South Australia Government pays to train Vietnamese nurses to fix local shortfall 2

Posted to Adelaide Now (5/6/2011) on 5/6/2011 at 11:08 AM
Commenting on "State Government pays to train Vietnamese nurses to fix local shortfall"
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Unfortunately too much emphasis is placed on paper qualification and paper shuffling. It's nice to sit in front of a computer, fill in forms, prepare reports or talk about strategies; the crux of the matter is patients lie in beds and need attention; they do not hang around the office areas.

It is true that many agency staff are not familiar with particular hospital environment, including certain crucial equipment, and lack spoken language skill.

Facts and figures, and who has done what are of no interest to the patients. Real throughput can only be achieved by real patient care, not the bright red colour at the bottom line.

South Australia Government pays to train Vietnamese nurses to fix local shortfall

Posted to Adelaide Now (5/6/2011) on 5/6/2011 at 3:01 AM
Commenting on "State Government pays to train Vietnamese nurses to fix local shortfall"
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Many refugees in detention centres are educated and can be trained in various qualifications. What a waste to "imprison" these people and let them rot in those hell holes!

Hospital food review called for amid claims of malnutrition

Posted to Adelaide Now (27/4/2011) on 27/4/2011 at 12:02 PM
Commenting on “Hospital food review called for amid claims of malnutrition”
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If people are well enough to complain about the meals, they should be discharged from the hospital and not occupying the valuable beds. Not all hospitals serve foods as bad as described; furthermore, hospitals are not restaurants, and most people don't dine like the upper-crust with the luxury of ordering from a-la carte menu at exorbitant prices.

There are so many constraints regarding allergy, variation of texture, availability of seasonal foods at reasonable cost, staff absenteeism resulting in meals staying in equipment longer which can change the appearance of the food.

Most foods in hospitals are more nutritious than the unhealthy foods consumed by discharged patients. The fact that these people appear to be malnourish is that they lost all the kilos of the yucky fat they had been carrying while they were staying in the hospitals.