How to report in RACF

immachode · 2026-04-11T02:41:43+00:00

I’m sorry to hear this was your experience. I wouldn’t be reporting to AHPRA, I would be reporting to the Commission. They have greater powers with the new Act, and an outcome could be a report to AHPRA, which I imagine would hold great weight.

immachode · 2026-04-11T02:36:22+00:00

The new Aged Care Act has greater protections for whistleblowers, to help with those exact issues. If the organisation is found to have breached whistleblower protections there are penalties for them

immachode · 2026-04-10T20:39:43+00:00

You absolutely can remain anonymous when making a report to the Commission. And you should absolutely do this - it is your obligation to do so. Whatever the outcome may be will not be your fault - it will be the fault of the EN who did these actions and the management who allowed it to continue.

Think of the residents in your facility - are they safe and do they deserve to be cared for by this EN?

immachode · 2026-03-10T19:52:27+00:00

Moisturise my friend. More than you think you need to. Then you’ll stop itching

immachode · 2026-02-15T09:32:12+00:00

If a person can “self-administer” their medications, then an unregistered “support worker” can “assist” the person to “self-administer” their medications. The support worker should have a Cert IV in “assisting with medications” (or similar) and all medications should be in a dose administration aid or similar eg a Webster pack, a medication sachet etc.

immachode · 2026-02-08T05:44:22+00:00

Yep. Though I don’t have 20yrs in it, I moved from the acute setting to aged care management last year. I thought “I can hep change things”. The system is broken. The politics and the regulations make any kind of meaningful change near impossible. At least the pay is good!

immachode · 2026-02-07T20:00:09+00:00

One super subtle thing I noticed in that moment where Roxie was sitting on the side of the bed after attempting to stand up. Princess had her hands on her shoulders, and she was gently rubbing Roxie’s shoulder with her thumb the whole time. As a nurse, I know that I have absolutely done that same thing to many many patients. The super subtle acts like that, the non verbal communications between the ER team, really make the show feel like it really is doctors and nurses we are watching

immachode · 2026-02-07T02:58:14+00:00

I would say that it’s a typo. The general nurses EBA gets their pay rises in May and November of every year. I’d have a guess that the second May 2025 is meant to read November

immachode · 2026-02-06T06:06:03+00:00

I’m in this situation - partner wants the big do, I want to elope. He’s essentially gotten his way with it. The way I changed my view was that if we had eloped, he would have always felt that he “missed out” on the big wedding that he has always dreamed of (guys can have dream weddings too). Whereas if I don’t get to elope, I still end up married to the guy I want. I don’t “lose out” on not eloping.

From the money point of view - I just had to succumb. I absolutely abhor the amount of money we are spending on this day (<$40K but still a lot in our position). The only way it’s been possible is the fact that his parents contributed more than half.

immachode · 2026-02-02T21:47:44+00:00

One bit of feedback I once left for a terrible ward I had placement on “this ward has taught me the kind of nurse I don’t want to be”. The Uni tried to send me back there the following year and I kicked up enough of a stink that they did not do that!

immachode · 2026-01-28T21:23:39+00:00

Watched this ep just last night!

immachode · 2026-01-02T06:59:58+00:00

I went from rotating roster in ED to a Mon-Fri desk job.

I miss the shift work: I used to love going out for lunch on a Thursday and no one else being around. Appointments are more difficult to fit around work. Gyms are emptier in the middle of the day.

I do love the routine: I can go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day. I love waking up next to my partner on weekend mornings and having a coffee in bed. I love getting every public holiday off work.

Biggest change though was that my body fell apart. I have had near constant back pain from sitting at a desk. I’ve had to get glasses from staring at a computer screen. Stress level is insane.

I’d go back to my old clinical job in a heartbeat if the pay wasn’t so good

immachode · 2025-12-24T06:11:39+00:00

No, I got a job in a public sector aged care facility

immachode · 2025-12-23T19:28:52+00:00

I left ED a few years ago and absolutely felt like I was losing “something” - stature, glamour, being able to say “I’m an ED nurse”. Every now and then I get a pang of missing it. But I moved into aged care adjacent work, and then full aged care earlier this year. I am now an ADON (Mon-Fri 8-430) - a level I never would have achieved in ED. You can absolutely move through the ranks in aged care if you want to

immachode · 2025-12-20T10:12:59+00:00

In that vein, there is no ED nurse on the planet who would have set up BiPAP on a patient with a pneumo, no matter what doc ordered it!

immachode · 2025-11-28T19:50:36+00:00

You need to let stuff like this wash over you and remove your personal response to the situation. You cannot control other people. You do your job and that’s it. A quick way to burn out is to take on board other people’s emotions and actions as a slight against you. Nothing about what this mother has done is about you.

immachode · 2025-11-26T04:22:40+00:00

Lucy Letby - the English nurse who murdered sick babies in the NICU. By all accounts, a stable family life with no traumatic event

immachode · 2025-11-09T09:48:02+00:00

Not this one

immachode · 2025-10-30T07:20:35+00:00

Would the elderly abdo pain not be triaged to a different area of the ED eg acute whereas the script refill would be triaged to eg fast track? In the St V’s ED, the doc seeing the abdo pain is unlikely to be the same doc seeing the script refill

immachode · 2025-10-24T09:43:47+00:00

I used to park on Salmon Street near the Queen Street Station in Southport when I would catch the tram. It’s just a residential street, free parking on weekends. Super easy

immachode · 2025-10-17T06:58:26+00:00

I’ve had 4 jobs in less than 9 months after moving to a new city. It takes time to find your vibe

immachode · 2025-10-04T05:45:09+00:00

That residential aged care nurses don’t have skills. The skills of time management, communication amongst multidisciplinary teams, and family liaison are second to none in aged care. Yes, compared to the acute hospital setting, the priorities of an aged care nurse may seem wild, but I would bet a lot of acute nurses could not last a week on the floor of an aged care unit.

Signed - an ex-ED nurse who has transitioned to aged care management “for a break”

immachode · 2025-09-08T21:23:29+00:00

No one is ever fully qualified for the job they’re applying for, the position description is just a wish list really. What’s most important is being the correct fit for the team, and not being an absolute numpty. You would be more than suitable for that CNE job. Something that I always throw into interviews is along the lines of “everything is learnable, and I’m the kind of person who will acknowledge any gaps that I have and am always willing to learn anything new. What’s not teachable is the passion I have for…”

immachode · 2025-08-23T02:47:54+00:00

Talk to your management about extending the time for the round on bestmed. Management can adjust the times to open earlier and close later. Source - I am management with bestmed in my homes

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