HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:25:47 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 location: https://tnipe.wordpress.com/comments/feed/ x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:25:47 GMT etag: "2de001a6c617521da56e4604c570b16e" x-redirect-by: WordPress x-ac: 3.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=348.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:25:47 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:25:47 GMT etag: W/"2de001a6c617521da56e4604c570b16e" content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 3.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=351.0 https://tnipe.wordpress.com A periodic blog on matters health, union, social justice, and the occasional random rant Sat, 27 Feb 2021 03:44:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ https://tnipe.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/how-many-aged-care-deaths-before-the-government-acts/comment-page-1/#comment-1387 Sat, 27 Feb 2021 03:44:48 +0000 https://tnipe.wordpress.com/?p=2400#comment-1387 Good read Tara,

Many many changes to age care needs to occur. It’s an issue of safety and human dignity and so much more.

]]> https://tnipe.wordpress.com/2017/06/01/in-praise-of-palliative-care/comment-page-1/#comment-1356 Fri, 15 Nov 2019 03:15:04 +0000 https://tnipe.wordpress.com/?p=1205#comment-1356 […] writes: I have written about  the best kinds of dying trajectories and about the difference quality palliative care makes to […]

]]> https://tnipe.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/why-i-support-victorias-voluntary-assisted-dying-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-1351 Wed, 06 Nov 2019 03:27:09 +0000 https://tnipe.wordpress.com/?p=1290#comment-1351 […] Tara Nipes is a registered nurse on a multiple medical specialty ward at one of Melbourne’s most acute tertiary hospitals. In the first of three blog posts about assisted dying, Tara writes about why her experience as a nurse leads her to support assisted dying. This was originally on Tara’s blog as Why I support Victoria’s voluntary assisted dying bill. […]

]]> https://tnipe.wordpress.com/2018/03/25/on-the-matter-of-privilege/comment-page-1/#comment-1066 Thu, 29 Mar 2018 09:10:48 +0000 https://tnipe.com/2018/03/25/on-the-matter-of-privilege/#comment-1066 In reply to Paul McNamara.

Thank you, Paul – coming from you that means a lot 🙂

]]> https://tnipe.wordpress.com/2018/03/25/on-the-matter-of-privilege/comment-page-1/#comment-1064 Wed, 28 Mar 2018 08:28:08 +0000 https://tnipe.com/2018/03/25/on-the-matter-of-privilege/#comment-1064 […] Nipe (25/03/18) On the matter of privilege (this is the blog that I wish I wrote: it’s much clearer and more succinct than […]

]]> https://tnipe.wordpress.com/2018/03/25/on-the-matter-of-privilege/comment-page-1/#comment-1059 Wed, 28 Mar 2018 02:27:54 +0000 https://tnipe.com/2018/03/25/on-the-matter-of-privilege/#comment-1059 Thanks for simplifying the argument Tara. Very clear. Disarmingly frank.
It’s terrific that we have articulate nurses like you: it helps the rest of us to cut through the bullshit.

]]> https://tnipe.wordpress.com/2017/10/29/medical-support/comment-page-1/#comment-942 Sun, 29 Oct 2017 13:02:37 +0000 https://tnipe.com/?p=2053#comment-942 […] my previous post I wrote about why we (including the media) should pay less attention to the pronouncements of the […]

]]> https://tnipe.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/7-30-a-response/comment-page-1/#comment-834 Wed, 23 Aug 2017 02:50:58 +0000 https://tnipe.wordpress.com/?p=1911#comment-834 I acknowlede that Dr Kaminsky has said she was “quoted out of context” but find it difficult to imagine what context could alter the meaning of her words regarding her concerns that she is not up-skilling/trained, and how the medication will be safely managed, and the risk of the medication being accessed by children. This last suggestion is particularly unlikely- safe management of medications in the home is well established practice. I lean to the conclusion that Dr Kaminsky is unaware of how the proposed framework thoroughly addresses these issues and provides solutions and safeguards and feel concerned that the public may have been mislead by these comments. Nia

]]> https://tnipe.wordpress.com/2017/08/07/caring-at-the-end-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-819 Mon, 07 Aug 2017 00:57:49 +0000 https://tnipe.wordpress.com/?p=1909#comment-819 This is a very poignant article. However I was upset to read that this was a “palliative patient”, an uncomplicated dying. It is obvious to me that the patient’s pain issues were not being dealt with. If the writer had given all that was prescribed and the patient is still not comfortable it is time to agitate for a syringe driver of background opioid and midazolam.
This is why ” palliative care does not work for some” …..simply that doctors will not escalate to achieve total symptom relief. We need mass re- education of nurses and carers so that if maximum prescribed doses do not achieve comfort staff ask for urgent referral to palliative care services to achieve a regime of medication which will achieve pain free status. Dying patients only have now..no second chances.
And if specialist intervention cannot achieve pain free status there is the option for terminal sedation. Trouble is so many nurses do not keep pain and symptom charts, no- one asks ” is this the right drug for a particular pain type?” or can we use adjunct medication to relieve the patients suffering.
Instead of crying and feeling helpless nurses need to advocate for urgent specialist intervention if the current prescriber is not ordering sufficient/ correct medication to achieve a peaceful dying.

]]> https://tnipe.wordpress.com/2017/06/01/in-praise-of-palliative-care/comment-page-1/#comment-809 Fri, 28 Jul 2017 06:44:12 +0000 https://tnipe.wordpress.com/?p=1205#comment-809 […] writes: I have written about  the best kinds of dying trajectories and about the difference quality palliative care makes to […]

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