SA modelling has the peak here next week and then hopefully trending downwards in a couple of weeks.
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I posted beginning of the week that down here if youāre visiting you have to have proof of full vaxx otherwise you canāt get in. But that was at the Hobart Private not the Royal.
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Interestingly hospitalizations have dropped a little from just over 900 earlier in the week. Iāll be interested to see if that trend continues.
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If you have covid, and you rock up to emergency because of it, do you get admitted?
pretty sure you get shot into the sun.
I canāt iamgine you not being admitted, probably best to mask up beforehand.
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Anyone know the effects of Covid on food prep?
Things like making homemade pasta sauce or salami.
Iām staying out of it, just in case, but just wondering.
They trained thousands of ācontact tracersā in a few weeks. Why donāt they train thousands of ānursesā?
We can just assign 20-30 ānew nursesā to a trainee nurse, then have a dozen trainee nurses report to a real nurse, who can instruct them all on how to do their jobs.
Weāve already tested the concept. How hard can it be?
This should be the new standard for any skilled labour where we have a shortage.
I hear thereās a shortage of builders.
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NSIS.
Edit: Okay. Got it. The irony was pretty thick.
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Diploma course entry level registered nurses are theoretical fee free, but course docs cost and are basically full time ( lose your income). Also, as has been pointed out to me, hourly pay is only a couple of dollars more than Cert III Aged Care.
Bring back bursaries and more on the job training!
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I meanā¦if you need to be?
Edit: might be a terminology thing here.
Admitted means to a ward.
You donāt get āadmittedā to emergency.
If you mean, ālet inā then yes.
There are protocols, which are kind of useless now because as others have noted in this thread weāre getting negative RATS on people coming in with an unrelated complaint, so theyāre sitting with the gen pub, and later the PCR comes back positive.
Hospitals are riddled with it. Have been for a long time now. You should know that going in.
Iāve said several times over the last 2 years, now would be the time to train as a nurse. Thereās going to be a real shortage, and surely the shortage is going to have to be addressed with higher wages.
IMO RNs get paid pretty well, but its the work conditions that suck absolute balls. I dont think money will solve the problem IMO, broader cultural shift within the industry needs to take place. Tell the ANMF to get off their ā ā ā .
Eābody looking for someone to blame.
Itās kinda stupid. And kinda childish.
Edit: and that goes for everyone from FB crazies to WorkCover.
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I reckon if a grub arks up in an emergency ward just bulldoze them into a quarry.
Iāve been mentoring some Asian Aged Care workers to upgrade to Registered Nurse diploma, gives them scope to work outside Australia as well. For the single ones (some with kids) it all comes down to money.
Among the non Anglo, Indian and Filipino have the edge, as their Year 12 qualifications are recognised, not so the Indonesians and the Thais for instance.
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Sorry for wrong terminology , Enrolled Nurse (EN) is entry level Diploma, Registered Nurse ( RN) is Degree level. EN hourly pay not much more than Cert III.
2020 and 2021, those were the tough times 
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Thatās where the problem lies.
Peopleās attitude to any professional.
There is a āpeople donāt do anything rightā and āthings were done better in the 80sā attitude without any kind of thought as to how we have reached this point and whether weād be willing to commit to address the problem and set a timeline for it (it wonāt be fixed overnight although people believe it should be that easy).
Iām not sure how to to fix peopleās attitudes though. As was noticeable through the pandemic and through climate change discussions, thereās a āI know more than youā aspect to it that people are not willing to back down from.
ban parks and rec