Q&A: Examining nurses perceptions as the spotlight focuses on the aged care workforce in Australia

Q&A: Examining nurses perceptions as the spotlight focuses on the aged care workforce in Australia

Nurse

How is the Australian aged care sector looking post-royal commission?

What’s the situation there?

Your paper talks about the importance of a good workforce with good cooperation, which you describe as ‘relational care’

What would a multi-professional care team look like in an ideal world in this context?

The paper finds that this doesn’t always work so well?

It looks like some of the nurses you spoke to didn’t feel part of a team sometimes, or didn’t feel represented enough in a team?

Many of the nurses you spoke to were happy in their work, so it seems like the sector has to capitalize on that, with the old folks in mind?

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