Take 3: Understaffing in aged care

Aged-care facilities can be stretched for resources when a resident is dying

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Aged-care facilities can be stretched for resources when a resident is dying.

“It is not uncommon to have one registered nurse for say 60 beds,” says Liz Reymond, a palliative medicine specialist and the deputy director of Metro South Palliative Care Services in Queensland.

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“If you’ve got one person in that facility who is dying and they need a breakthrough pain injection, for instance, it means that nurse plus one other need to be taken off the floor to provide that medication,” she says.

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