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Pages tagged "NPAQ"


QNMU litigation against NPAQ

Posted on News by Margaret Gilbert · December 18, 2020 2:01 PM

Legal Action

Margaret Gilbert, Acting President

NPAQ recently received a letter of demand from QNMU’s lawyer regarding our advertising and our lawyers have replied making it clear that we will not be intimidated.   

Letter from QNMU Lawyers  24 November 2020 

NPAQ’s reply 27 November 2020 

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CCC referred Rockhampton Nurse back to QLD Health

Posted on News by Npaq · May 28, 2020 8:34 AM

North Rockhampton Nursing Centre.

Rockhampton COVID-19 nurse says she’s been made a scapegoat

 

On 23 May 2020, Des Houghton reported in The Courier-Mail on the Rockhampton health worker at the centre of a widening political slanging match where Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says a nurse should “know better”.  NPAQ's President Phill Tsingos was interviewed to give this nurse a voice.
Hear NPAQ's President talk about the significant victory for nurses in his video message below. And an extract of The Courier-Mail article follows.
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Free Parking for Health Professionals

Posted on News by Npaq · April 08, 2020 1:56 PM

Car Park

Today, NPAQ Secretary Cath Seaver wrote to the Minister for Health seeking free parking for QLD nurses and health professionals.  

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Coronavirus outbreak ‘will leave aged care exposed’

Posted on News by Npaq · March 03, 2020 4:19 PM
Nurses Professional ­Association of Queensland president Phill Tsingos. Picture: Patria Jannides
Nurses Professional ­Association of Queensland president Phill Tsingos. Picture: Patria Jannides

 

Article Written by Stephen Lunn, Social Affairs Editor, The Australian on 3 March, 2020

The elderly will be particularly at risk in the event of a widespread outbreak of the coronavirus, with aged-care homes unable to cope, a nurses’ group has warned.

The Nurses Professional ­Association of Queensland is also worried aged-care nurses have ­received no specific training or ­advice from the government on how to handle the coronavirus.

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We Won! We Won! We Won!

Posted on News by Npaq · February 21, 2020 1:23 PM

We Won

NPAQ has the right to represent QLD Nurses

Before you get too excited about the Margaret Gilbert case, we have won the opening round, but it clearly establishes that NPAQ has the right to represent you because NPAQ is an industrial association (a trade union), the same as the legacy nurses union. 

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Union for members a worthy notion

Posted on Press Releases by Npaq · December 09, 2019 12:19 PM

NPAQ banner

Katrina Grace Kelly (ne Grace Collier) feature writer for the Saturday Australian had this to say about NPAQ  ...

When it comes to understanding unions and industrial relations, the Coalition suffers a natural disadvantage due to the large numbers of lawyers in its ranks.

Generally speaking, the legal approach is managerial and remote, emotionally inhibited and politically off-kilter. The answer to every workplace relations problem is always another law because what the world needs is more legal people, writing long indignant letters to each other, containing threats of injunction applications, and other expensive and unhelpful procedures.

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Aged Care Nursing - ABC Radio with Steve Austin

Posted on News by Npaq · November 26, 2019 3:39 PM

Nurse Confessions

Posted on News by Npaq · November 22, 2019 4:18 PM

Confession

Confession may be good for the soul but sometimes not so good for an employee.

The old saying, ‘nobody talks, everybody walks’ holds some truth. As a rule of thumb, there is never a need to volunteer for interviews or to give evidence.

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16,000 elderly died waiting for Home Care

Posted on News by NPAQ · November 18, 2019 3:34 PM

Elderly on park bench

Here at NPAQ headquarters we were alarmed to read in the interim report of the Royal Commission in to aged care that 16,000 elderly Australians died waiting for Home Care packages.  

This is a disgrace.


Our members (and one of our executives) have told us they have elderly parents who have waited three years for a package.
We intend to highlight this failure in our submission to the Royal Commission.

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“Humanity over Bureaucracy” a Dutch-inspired revolution in Nursing.

Posted on News by NPAQ · October 25, 2019 12:34 PM

Buurtzorg

A new model of care has been developed in the Netherlands called ‘Buurtzorg’ meaning ‘neighbourhood care’. 

The Buurtzorg method has three aims:

  1. better care for patients,
  2. happier staff and
  3. lower costs.
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The Nurses' Professional Association of Queensland (NPAQ) is an industrial association of employees, (an unregistered trade union) whose principal purpose is to protect and promote the interests of members in matters concerning their employment. We are a non-party political alternative to the QNMU. Our membership fees are up to $268 lower and we provide all the same services, plus an optional online CPD product.


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