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It’s been well reported particularly in the last few years that we are experiencing a shift to an aging workforce in the nursing profession. Gradually the average age of nurses has crept up, and this trend is not exclusive to Australia or America - many countries around the world are seeing similar patterns.
Laura [...]
There’s a certain group of patients that come to emergency, mostly vague historians with vague complaints, who don’t want to wait around to see any kind of resolution to their presenting complaint.
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Many of these people don’t have problems that can be diagnosed, solved and cured within a reasonable time frame, they have chronic multi-dimensional [...]
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There are always patients who try and have a funny comeback for every question that you ask them.
Often after delivering the supposed ‘witty and amusing retort’, they look at you as if they were the first person ever to come up with such an amazing line. The problem is, we hear these lines [...]
Last week one of the major (nameless) health facilities in Queensland decided that it would be important to raise their standards in terms of what food and drink they provide.
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This healthy choice type promo is aimed at practicing what they preach, ie: why promote health and healthy lifestyle if you’re giving people junk [...]
One thing that gets me about many presentations to hospitals is that they involved the dreaded ‘acopia’
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Not sure what acopia means? From Wiki: “Acopia means “inability to cope” and is often used as a euphemistic medical term which is used to denote psychosocial inability to function in a person’s usual home environment”.
The [...]
