What are the differences between private and public nurses?

On the whole, not much.

The nurses in the public system are much more a part of the treatment team and politically have a fair bit more clout. They interact with the treatment team of the consultant and his/her bevy of junior doctors and the allied health professionals and are primarily the advocates for the patients. They do their set of nursing duties (and more) but there are many things such as nasogastric insertions, indwelling catheter insertions etc that they would get the junior doctors to do.

The nurses in the private systems ARE the treating team, but I get the impression that politically they are a little bit under the thumb of the admin and medical heirarchies. They tend to run things on the wards and don't have any readily available junior doctors about (except in private ICU). They would insert NGT and IDC usually. They do things according to a protocol and they then call the private consultants instead of finding the junior doctors.

There are home nursing set ups in private and public health systems in Australia.

A public nurse is in a hospital. A private nurse comes to you home. If your private nurse is wearing a thong, you just got lucky!

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