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Let’s face it – working in Aged Care is a hands-on career.  Among other things, providing good oral hygiene, continence care, pressure area care and safe manual handling are not things you can learn easily from books.  Sure, you can look at pictures and read about them – but nothing can replace practical back-to-basics hands-on training. As Registered Nurses, ACT trainers have for many years honed their skills and developed…

Gone are the days when nurses would man-handle heavy clients using their own body strength moving them from place to place. On any one shift it was estimated that nurses were manual lifting on average 1.8 tonnes, more than the construction industry. There are a lot of older nurses now paying for those past practices with ongoing bad backs. No Lift Policy Fortunately times have changed with the introduction of…