Minister Elliot, Minister Roxon and Premier Bligh
The second email was sent to you and many others on the 27 February 2009. SING SUPPORT GROUP can only assume that you intend to DO NOTHING as there has been no response from your office.
SING SUPPORT GROUP acknowledges that the general public have a right to know that some are not willing to be cowed by Queensland Health or Eventide management.
SING intends to inform the public that staff speaking out will have their employment terminated, or, as in the case of another whistleblower - no casual work at Eventide. This deliberate message is designed to prevent credible staff from reporting abuse.
SING intends to inform the public that one of its members has had her employment terminated by Queensland Health.
SING intends to inform the public that this member and her family will have no income for three months until she is entitled to a Centrelink benefit.
SING intends to lobby for an Inquiry into the management/mismanagement of Eventide.
SING intends to place a newspaper advertisement with the times and dates of the protest rallies.
SING intends to set up a booth with articles, taped radio interviews with family members and various staff, photographs, DVD's and any other evidence relevant to the cases in SING's possession.
AS STATED IN THE FIRST EMAIL MINISTER: PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE AFRAID TO COME FORWARD WITH INFORMATION and it is information, that SING intends to disseminate to the general public. Cover up at Eventide has been allowed to flourish for too long under the guise of CODE OF CONDUCT. The genuine advocates at Eventide are not being protected and the abusers flourish.
TO COME: PROOF THAT AN EVENTIDE NURSING UNIT MANAGER MADE REMARKS TO OTHERS ATTENDING A MEETING, THAT CONSTITUTE THE TORT OF "INCITEMENT". DEFAMATORY REMARKS WERE MADE AGAINST THE SING MEMBER WHO HAS HAD HER EMPLOYMENT TERMINATED BY QUEENSLAND HEALTH. DOCUMENTS WILL BE POSTED SHORTLY.
ALSO EVIDENCE THAT AN ENORMOUS SUM OF MONEY ($500,000) SET ASIDE BY QUEENSLAND HEALTH, DRAMATICALLY REDUCED IN AMOUNT ($100,000) UPON THE DEATH OF A MALE DISABLED RESIDENT OF COOINDA HOUSE, REDCLIFFE. THE MOTHER OF THIS DECEASED RESIDENT WAS UNDER SURVEILLANCE AT THE DIRECTION OF MANAGEMENT. IT APPEARS THAT THIS MOTHER DARED TO COMPLAIN ABOUT HER SON'S CARE TO COOINDA HOUSE MANAGEMENT. THIS MOTHER HAD HER GUARDIANSHIP REMOVED DAYS BEFORE THE MALE RESIDENT'S DEATH. ONE OF THE INTERESTED PARTIES INVOLVED IN THIS REMOVAL OF GUARDIANSHIP, WAS THE DIRECTOR OF NURSING OF COOINDA HOUSE. A FEW DAYS AFTER HER SON'S DEATH THIS MOTHER ENDURED A 3 HOUR POLICE INTERVIEW AND WAS CAUTIONED.
I Would like to talk to these police offices about what i was put through. If it happens to me again there is only one place i will go?? Sandgate Police Station..
ReplyDeleteRedcliffe CIB has Police Officers familiar with serious matters regarding Eventide and Cooinda House. SING cannot recall if it was the Queensland Police Service (QPS) at Sandgate or Redcliffe called when a sexual assault took place. This male nurse assaulted a female nurse at Eventide and SING is informed that he was charged. Roma Street QPS station is another avenue for reporting sexual or physical assault.
ReplyDeleteSING cannot emphasize enough how important it is that Advanced Assistants in Nursing (AAIN) work in pairs. There is then another witness to rely on, if needing to give evidence to QPS.
SING cannot emphasize enough how important it is for AAIN's to always have at least one other person with them when asked to meet with management.
SING has a great deal of evidence collated where staff have been bullied, intimidated and stood over, when attending meetings by themselves. One nurse was treated so that she never returned to Eventide. She had at least 11 years of service and walked away without even a reference.
Written evidence of bullying and intimidation will be posted soon.
Bullying and Intimidation of staff does have a direct impact on care.
ReplyDeleteDepartments who investigate state that this is an internal HR matter.
Yes this is a HR matter and if the senior staff are the bullies or the ones making the bullets to be fired, we all know that it will not be addressed.
Therefore it is a care issue and DOHA and the investigation team are responsible for recognising that there is a system and process breakdown - this is surely a non compliance.
The Department of Health and Ageing Complaints Investigation Scheme and others, were informed many times that aged care staff who report abuse and assault, were being bullied, intimidated and badly treated by Eventide management. Evidence is available that the reporting system or lack of a reporting system was one of the clauses mentioned in the Deed of Settlement of Karen Smith. This clause and others have never been honoured by Queensland Health.
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