by Carrie | Care and Safety, Compliance
We all want to have a bit of fun in our lives. Staying at home to keep safe isn’t really that much fun. Sure we might not fall over or break a hip as my mother did recently, but it makes for a dull and uneventful life, a bit like sitting around waiting to die. As we...
by Carrie | Staff-Focused
It is well known that remote aged care services in the Northern Territory have a high turnover of both coordinators and care staff. This may be due to many reasons, such as the remoteness, lack of facilities, harsh physical environment and sometimes challenging...
by Carrie | Care and Safety, Compliance
As a young employee, I used to think that policies and procedures were just a dull and boring part of the workplace. They were something that was a necessary evil, more important for the management than staff, and could be ignored for most of the time. As time has...