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A nurse has compared showering aged care residents to hosing them down in a milkshed, in a new report highlighting the impact of short staffing.
Residents were sometimes going two weeks without a shower and staff were forced to ration incontinence pads and wound dressings, it found.
The report from the Nurses Organisation said the sector was in crisis, largely because of staffing shortages that were having impact on the care and dignity of people.
One nurse who was quoted lamented how much less time she had with residents than 20 years ago.
"Some days it honestly feels like a milking shed, you know, line them up, hose them down.
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