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A KERRY NURSING home was told its system for managing residents’ cash was not secure, according to an inspection carried out earlier this year
A report from the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) made two findings of major non-compliance in relation to the Lystoll Lodge in Skehenerin, Listowel.
Over the course of an unannounced visit in April, the inspector looked at systems that are in place to safeguard residents’ money. The system is monitored by the provider – Lystoll Lodge Nursing Home – the person in charge and administration staff.
As part of the system, two members of staff have to sign for any money lodged or withdrawn and a sample of records checked were seen to be in order. However the inspection found receipts were not given for all cash received from relatives of its 48 residents.
When cash payments were received the name of the person who paid was recorded in the daily diary. The amount received was not recorded. This was acknowledged in the invoice sent out to relatives.
The inspector formed the view that the system in place for receiving cash payments was “not comprehensive or secure”.
According to the report, a sample of staff files revealed garda vetting was not in place for all workers on duty. In addition to this, gaps and inconsistencies in employment history had not been adequately checked and the required number of references were not available in staff files.
The report said the person in charge undertook to remove staff who did not have the required vetting clearance from the roster until garda vetting had been received. She also provided assurance that all other staff on duty had been vetted and that no staff member would be employed in the future without garda vetting being in place prior to employment.
The inspector found that in addition to similar findings during the previous inspection, a large number of staff had not received the annual, mandatory fire training. They also found that not all staff had been given appropriate training in accordance with their role, for example, infection control training, medication management training and manual handling training.
In response to the inspection, the home said it would conduct fire training every six months and committed to having staff trained in areas like medication management and manual handling by the end of July.
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Yeah, for sure lol
@Brian Pocock: I just knew the first comment would be from a klown who doesnt understand the issue.
@Ted Daly: do tell
@damien leen: There’s this thing called ‘science’ Damien..look up the definition of the word when ya get a chance.. if you’re struggling after that, I can’t really help you.. thats all there is to tell really.
Climate change is a crock of shi……
@Thomas Meaney: tell that to vast swathes of the middle east that are virtually unlivable. Ya numpt-y
@Ted Daly: don’t live there, don’t want to live there, have no intention of going there, don’t care…
Well it didn’t reach Carrick On Shannon
definitively not here
That would be an ecumenical matter
The Journal trolling the trolls.
Would someone explain to me, did they take thermometer readings from every official weather station in the whole world, including at the north and south poles and come up with the average temperature on that day ?
@Sean Walsh: They sure as hell did not do that, we’ve virtually no data for majority of ocean, one official measuring station in arctic circle and co2 is measured from one spot on earth for global average atmospheric concentration (Hawaii). the Data for the period pre 1940s comes from US and some European data, nothing exists for rest of the world until the modern era but hey ‘trust the science’
As Bob Dylan once sang. meantime life outside goes on all around you.
@Brendan O’Brien: (That was meant for Gerald K.)
All scientific method modelling is based on clockwork solar system modelling. At the centre of that modelling is a framework (RA/Dec) in which experimental theorists insist that the planet does not turn once every 24 hours and do not appreciate the references where the planet turns a thousand times in a thousand 24-hour days.
Life, your life, is built on observation that has been going on long before life on Earth began with sunrise, noon, and sunset every 24 hours. It is the most immediate and precious experience of the Earth’s motions.
Then, we have mathematical modellers going back to the Royal Society Isaac.
” It is a fact that, owing to the difference between solar and sidereal time, the Earth rotates upon its axis once more often than there are [24 hour] days in the year” NASA
Yawn
Many commenters here didn’t experience the Thatcher years when the modelling of the University of EA and other institutions was funded as a means to an end. Some say it was to break the unions and coal miners and then snowballed.
“It is mainly by unlocking nature’s most basic secrets, whether it be about the structure of matter and the fundamental forces or about the nature of life itself, that we have been able to build the modern world. This is a world which is able to sustain far more people with a decent standard of life than Malthus and even thinkers of a few decades ago would have believed possible” Thatcher.
https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107346
Surely someone here knows what the conviction of Malthus is and its application by Trevelyan in famine Ireland?
@Gerald Kelleher Spencer first raised the notion of implementing a famine in Ireland in the 16th century, a couple of hundred years before Malthus. As for Trevelyan, he didn’t cause the famine and he was a fanatical adherent of the Liberal policy of laissez faire, which wasn’t necessarily an anti-irish policy, even if it did result in many deaths.
There is nothing worse than an Irish Royal Society redneck, while Thatcher can be excused and her perspectives on Ireland understood in that way.
“An Attila, or a Zingis Khan and the chiefs around them might fight for glory, the fame of extensive conquests, but the actual cause that set in motion the great tide of northern emigration, and that continued to propel it till it rolled at different periods against China, Persia, Italy, and even Egypt was a scarcity of food, a population extended beyond the means of supporting it.” Thomas Malthus
The needs of the invaders outweigh the needs of the invasion between famine Ireland and industrial England. Natural selection weaponised Malthus after the famine as the biological faults of the invaded and natural selection.
@Gerald Kelleher: do you set your shower temperature to 32.6°C or 34.3°C?
@Gerald Kelleher: Yeah, right. Take those blinkers off.
@Gerald Kelleher: and Malthus died years before the famine.
Commenters can’t stomach the fact that Origin of Species originated from conditions between neighbouring famine Ireland and industrial England and not the fairytale of the neighbouring Galapagos.
“Something brought to my recollection Malthus’s “Principles of Population,”. I thought of his exposition of “the positive checks to increase”–disease, accidents, war, and famine, which keep the population of savage races to so much lower an average than that of civilized peoples… The more I thought over it, the more I became convinced that I had, at length, found the long-sought-for law of nature that solved the problem of the Origin of Species.” Wallace
Travelyan was a student of Malthus and it survived into the Thatcher years when mathematical modelling of climate began.
@Gerald Kelleher: no one cares about your ramblings,you’ve a laughing stock made of yourself on here
@Jb Walshe: have you noticed how Gerald thrives on our answers, and answers more nonsense every time?
And how he was strangely silent on Friday during the big IT blackout?
Who was among Darwin’s less favoured ‘races’?
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Descent_of_Man_(Darwin)/Chapter_V
It is an opportunity to remove the prejudice conviction that many of you learned in school as natural selection without the intents and purposes as it existed in the Victorian era.
The muck of climate change, action, justice, and neutrality comes from the same community, whereas reasonable people preface climate with maritime, polar, tropical, and so on.
Many but not all commenters here remind me of those sterile (woke) people on the radio who can’t reason for themselves.
@Jerry LeFrog: I don’t know how he slipped through Darwin’s net…kinda disproves the theory
@Jb Walshe: Leave the man alone, we are all entitled to our opinions whether we agree with each other or not.
Given an opportunity to deal with a dangerous prejudice conviction that is natural selection, with its roots in famine Ireland and Malthus, silence reflects a chronic condition.
“But the mental requirements of the lowest savages, such as the Australians are very little above those of many animals. The higher faculties and those of pure intellect and refined emotion are useless to them, are rarely, if ever, manifested, and have no relation to their wants, desires, or well-being. How, then, was an organ developed so far beyond the needs of its possessor? Natural selection could only have endowed the savage with a brain a little superior to that of an ape, whereas he actually possesses one but very little inferior to that of the average members of our learned societies” Wallace
@Gerald Kelleher: You habitually connect things that in fact have no connection other than your distaste for them. Doing so does not prove anything except your lack of logic.
@Maire Hicks: enjoy the ramblings Marie
@Br: I have seen how intransigent the Royal Society community can be, like Brexiteers who dig a hole for themselves and everyone else and can’t find a way out of their indulgences.
https://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/zGreg1868.pdf
There is no difference between natural selection and eugenics because eugenics is natural selection where the Irish, with their narrower brain, play a starring role as a less favoured ‘race’.
A generation of Irish bought into the Royal Society subculture, and I often hear them as radio presenters in the morning. No doubt, as these people get older, they will begin to realise that what they thought as entering was a bright and shiny academic community in research was no better or worse than the denomination Church version of spirituality.
I am Irish, but sometimes, I feel that Kingsley was right when it comes to the Irish being more comfortable under Royal Society rules than dealing with prejudice as it surfaced as ‘races’.
“But I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country. I don’t believe they are our fault. I believe that they are happier, better, more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever were. But to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much, but their skins, except where tanned by exposure, are as white as ours.” Kingsley in Ireland
https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-3439.xml
They say a chimp died in Dublin zoo but what about the human chimps here who go berserk when shown academic prejudice.
@Gerald Kelleher: I think your ranting is raising global temperature.
@John:
The most disruptive juvenile delinquent from the roughest estate in England has more integrity and dignity for his culture than the President of Ireland or someone of similar status has for the Irish culture.
The Irish, as a less favoured ‘race’ in the estimation of a section of English academic and political society, acted as a template for natural selection. Given the major opportunity to serve the world with the productive notion of diverse cultures, many commenters prefer to retain prejudice as favoured and less favoured ‘races’.
With dignity comes a lack of fear; with silence on this matter comes cowardice. The Royal Society rednecks who can’t discuss the topics don’t bother me, but the Royal Society Journal of rednecks pumping out empirical junk is a different matter.
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