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Calls for better oversight for emergency deployment of nurses – ABC News

The COVID-19 crisis is putting pressure on aged care staffing levels, as healthcare workers are forced to self-isolate with the disease, or to come into close contact with a confirmed case.

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vThe rise in COVID-19 cases in Victorian aged care facilities is seeing residents transported to hospital and dying from the virus outbreak.
The crisis is putting pressure on staffing levels, as healthcare workers are forced to self-isolate with the disease, or to come into close contact with a confirmed case.
But the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation says the scramble to shift public sector nurses into aged care homes is off to a bumpy start.
The union has told AM nurses that arriv…

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