Her First Time…
“After years of being babied and having my hand held through procedure after procedure, I was nervous and daunted when thrown into the acute ward,” Aina Nott said, “I certainly didn’t expect to administrate treatments on my own for the first time.”
Upon completion of her Bachelors of Nursing at Bendigo’s La Trobe University, Aina was successful in receiving a position as graduate nurse at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital.
Raised in the small town of Bendigo, Aina moved to the busy metropolitan city of Melbourne to start her career in nursing at the age of 20.
As more and more people are being admitted into hospitals everyday, the pressure on hospital staff to provide sufficient service to everyone is increasing.
“There’s no bigger issue facing the nation than the ageing of our population, the overcrowding of hospitals with people who should be in nursing homes, filling up acute care wards in our hospital systems around the state,” Former Victorian Premier Mr. Bracks said.
This chaotic issue has resulted in newly graduate staff being forced to take on more responsibility single-handedly and quite possibly beyond their capability, which in turn could lead to the uprisings of forced errors.
With the current health reform that the PM is trying to pass through to the senate, this is an issue that needs to be addressed more closely, as it affects the provision of health care.
