Information sheets
The QNU has produced a series of Information Sheets containing basic information on a range of issues and they are available here to members.
Members can also call the QNU Information Hotline on (07) 3840 1419 or toll free on 1800 177 273 for copies of the Information Sheets.
The Information Hotline is open 24 hours a day and uses a voicemail system. When you call, simply leave your name, address and the title of the Information Sheet you require and it will be sent to you by mail on the next working day.
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Aged Care Sector Series
- Care standards and staffing levels in residential aged care facilities
- Compulsory reporting of suspected abuse of residential aged care residents
- Inadequate nurse staffing levels and cuts to nursing hours in residential aged care facilities
- Medication management in aged care
Industrial Series
- Individual Flexibility Arrangements
- The new modern nurses' award
- The Nurses Award 2010 and your contract of employment
- Your NEW Rights at Work
OH&S Series
- Asbestos exposure
- Latex hazard
- Provisional Improvement Notices (under review - new legislation)
- Workers' compensation
- Workplace health and safety committees (under review - new legislation)
- Workplace health and safety representatives (under review - new legislation)
Private Sector Series
Professional Series
- Dual registration - Enrolled/Registered Nurses employed as Assistants In Nursing
- Graduate nurses/midwives support programs
- Know your rights when the police are called
- Making statements
- Preparing a statement for the Coroner
- Professional indemnity insurance
- Student nurses employed as assistants in nursing in acute wards/units
Public Sector Series
- 38-hour week
- Breaks between shifts
- Carer's leave (family responsibilities)
- Dealing with pay errors in Queensland Health
- Freedom of Information (under review)
- Grievance procedures – Queensland Health
- Paid parental leave
- Patient Dependency Systems (PDS)
- Performance improvement - Queensland Health
- Reporting criminal matters
- QH payroll debacle - Allegations of receiving unjustified cash payments
- QH payroll debacle - Know your rights when you have been referred to the police for suspected fraud (under review)
- QNU Workload/Bed Management Strategy (under review)
- Work and breastfeeding - Queensland Health
Working for you Series
- Australian nursing and midwifery unions and registration authorities
- Get active in the QNU
- Guidelines on the provision of legal and industrial representation of members (under review)
- QNU Branches
- Salary sacrifice
- Workplace Representatives
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