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Swallowing Awareness Day - 16th March 16 March 2022 What’s this thing called dysphagia? Dysphagia (dis-fay-juh) means difficulty swallowing. Swallowing is essential for life – ensuring we maintain adequate hydration and nutrition. On average, people swallow 700 times a day. People with dysphagia can be at risk of weight loss, malnutrition, dehydration, choking and/or developing aspiration pneumonia from food/fluid/saliva entering into the lungs. Speech Pathologists can assist with managing dysphagia. A Speech Pathologist will conduct an assessment of swallow function and provide advice for managing any difficulties. You can see some of these strategies in this handy infographic (PDF). Swallowing awareness day is on Wednesday 16th March 2022 and aims to bring attention to swallowing disorders and the people who live with dysphagia every day. In Australia, 15-30% of people over 65 years have some form of swallowing difficulty. D... -
Celebrating our dedicated staff! 15 March 2022 Congratulations to SCGH Employee of the Month, Social Work Manager - Rhona Haining. Rhona was nominated for the award by her Head of Department, Mary Joyce, with a glowing review of her willingness to take on the role of the SCGOPHCG NDIS coordinator while continuing her 'day job' of managing a team of social workers on the general medicine wards. Rhona works across SCGH and OPH, providing education to medical, nursing and allied health staff and monitoring the progress of each patient on the NDIS pathway. Mary said Rhona's work supports the NMHS strategic priorities, particularly her people-centred care approach and connecting with our care providers in the community. “I commend Rhona for the high-quality service she provides to our NDIS patients, which is delivered with good humour and total commitment.” Mary said. Director of Allied Health Kim Brookes also recognised Rhon... -
ICU nurse Laura Hynes publishes research 10 March 2022 SCGH ICU Registered Nurse Laura Hynes has had her research work shared in the Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing. The article, 'Intensive care nurses’ perceptions on barriers impeding the provision of end of life care in the intensive care setting: a quantitative analysis', was recently published as a joint research piece. The objective was to investigate the specific barriers and contextual characteristics that nurses experience within the Intensive Care Unit environment. Laura, who was the University of Notre Dame's 2019 Alumna of the Year, interviewed Perth ICU nurses with results highlighting some of the key obstacles nurses faced when trying to offer End Of Life Care (EOLC). This included having family and friends who continually call the nurse for updates rather than the designated contact person, families not accepting poor patient prognosis, and physicians differing in ... -
Behind the scenes at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital's specialised COVID ward 03 March 2022 If you haven't yet seen the great Channel 9 Perth story on Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital's Emergency Department (ED) and Covid Ward (G71), take a look at the below clip. Journalist Natalia Cooper was shown around ED and G71 after first doing a FIT test with her cameraman, getting a real feel not just for the preparedness of SCGH, but for how staff feel kitted up in PPE all day, every day! Professor Fraser Brims, Professor Respiratory Medicine, and Dr Lindsay Showers, Consultant ED, explained various processes and cutting edge equipment to Natalia, while ED Clinical Nurse Specialist Meggs Griffin coordinated the hands-on expertise of our nurse cast! We are proud of our staff and happy for a positive story to be out there. See the full news story (external site). -
SCGH High Risk Foot Service (HRFS) achieves accreditation as a Centre of Excellence 26 February 2022 The SCGH High Risk Foot Service (HRFS) is a multidisciplinary service which meets the needs of patients with complex diabetes related foot complications. It brings together the specialties of Vascular, Infectious Diseases, Endocrinology, Podiatry and Nursing (including Silver Chain Liaison Nurse) and provides care to patients with limb threatening diabetic foot ulcers and infections, and other complex foot disorders such as Charcot neuroarthropathy. Established in May 2019, the service offers an outpatient multidisciplinary clinic (the MDFU) located in the SCGH Podiatry department, and an inpatient diabetic foot unit (SCGH), and has links to the amputee rehabilitation service (OPH) and Hospital in the Home (Homelink) Service which provides care to patients in their own homes. After three years of operation, the SCGH High Risk Foot Service now helps around 60 outpatients each month and pe...
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12/04/2021