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Nurse suspended after smacking unruly toddler in the ER


AN experienced nurse has been suspended after allegedly smacking an unruly toddler in a hospital emergency department.
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The girl, who was in the emergency department with her mother and a sibling, is said to have been running around and misbehaving when Ms Stewart allegedly grabbed her, smacked her on the bottom and yelled at her to sit down. It is understood Ms Stewart had feared the child would injure herself or interfere with patient care. Under mandatory reporting rules, the hospital alerted DoCS, which referred the matter to its joint investigation-review team and police. Wagga Wagga crime manager Detective Sergeant Dale Holmes said officers expected to interview Ms Stewart in coming days.
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Nurses Association local branch president Tanya Gleeson said the emergency department was a dangerous place and Ms Stewart had acted in the child's best interests. "It's my understanding the child was basically running amok,'' she said. "There are sharps and all sorts of things there. It can be a very dangerous place.''

Our society is disfunctional. With rules like this in place It really is no wonder that kids like Corey Worthington are increasingly becoming the norm in our society, kids who do what they want when they want. Kids become adults eventually, too.


Think of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.

Boast as you will of your mateship now - crippled and mean and sly - The lines of suspicion on friendship's brow were traced since the days gone by.
There was room in the long, free lines of the van to fight for it side by side -
There was beating-room for the heart of a man in the days when the world was wide.

With its dull, brown days of a-shilling-an-hour the dreary year drags round: Is this the result of Old England's power? - the bourne of the Outward Bound?
Is this the sequel of Westward Ho! - of the days of Whate'er Betide? The heart of the rebel makes answer "No! We'll fight till the world grows wide!"

The world shall yet be a wider world - for the tokens are manifest; East and North shall the wrongs be hurled that followed us South and West. The march of Freedom is North by the Dawn! Follow, whate'er betide! Sons of the Exiles, march! March on! March till the world grows wide!

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