About 70 per cent of the Australian aged care workforce consists of staff who are not adequately regulated, trained or supervised, a new report from the Australian College of Nursing reveals.The ACN is calling for regulation to include an admission to a register for all healthcare workersOver the past 16 years, the number of nurses in aged care has dropped by 6 per cent
The report has called on the Federal Government to regulate the healthcare workforce to ensure all staff have minimum training requirements under their belt before entering the workforce.
. A “chronic illness tsunami” also needs to be stopped, or at least significantly reduced, upstream, with integrated prevention, monitoring and interventions. Especially monitoring of biomarkers for environmental toxins and monitoring and balancing of heart rate variability. .