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Media release from the Health and Disability Commissioner
Monday 14 June 2021, 03:32 PM
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Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rose Wall today released a report finding a nurse in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for his care of a man residing in a secure facility.
The man, aged in his fifties at the time of these events, has an intellectual disability and physical health concerns. He resides in a secure facility operated by the DHB and is a compulsory patient under the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992.
The man complained that he was assaulted by his primary nurse in the dining room at the facility. The man and the nurse told HDC different versions of events: the nurse said the man tripped and fell, whereas the man said the nurse pushed him. In any event, when the man was on the floor, the nurse sat on the man’s body and bounced on him, and did not remove him
Invercargill MP Penny Simmonds says there are up to 30 migrant nurses living in Southland who could be working in aged care facilities if their qualifications were recognised.
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It’s been a long journey for a group of internationally
qualified nurses who have arrived in the country and are now
working towards their nursing registration in New
Zealand.
Nine nurses from India, the Philippines and
South Africa, and one domestic student are enrolled in the
Certificate in Nursing (CAP) training scheme, a competence
assessment programme at Nelson Marlborough Institute of
Technology’s (NMIT) School of Nursing. Another five nurses
are currently in MIQ facilities awaiting to join the
programme.
NMIT moved swiftly to enable those in
quarantine to able to do some of their learning online but