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Celebrating our dedicated staff! 11 May 2022 Cancer, Imaging and Clinical Services Clinical Nurse Inonge Mundia has been recognised as the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Employee of the Month for going above and beyond in the care provided for her kidney and liver transplant patients, and supporting her colleagues to do the same. Inonge was nominated by her colleague for her dedication to providing holistic care to her patients with empathy and kindness, including anything from washing and blow drying a patient’s hair after surgery, to following up and providing education to family members. Inonge has been known to stop at other wards before or after her shift to complete an outlying patient’s peritoneal dialysis treatment to ensure best care is provided. Inonge supports her co-workers and junior staff members with training regarding encephalopathic patients, dialysis patients, wound care and deteriorating patients, whil... -
Celebrating our dedicated staff! 10 May 2022 Congratulations to SCGH Employee of the Month, Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) Staff Development Nurse, Ashlee Atkinson who has been recognised as SCGH Employee of the Month. Ashlee provides a reassuring face to patients who are scared or in pain as they wake up from surgery and has been recognised for the compassionate care and support she provides to patients, visitors, and staff in her role. In support of her PACU colleagues transitioning into providing intensive care for COVID patients, Ashlee stepped up to support staff by preparing, organising, and obtaining resources and educational material to ensure the critical care skills of PACU nurses were maintained. Ashlee was nominated by her Manager Clinical Nurse Specialist Elizabeth Fereday for going go above and beyond for patients and staff every day. “Ashlee is indispensable in this unit and is a role model for staff and stu... -
128 percent increase in organ donation this year so far! 07 May 2022 Donate Life WA (DLWA) has reported that in the first four months of 2022, they have facilitated an increase in organ donations of 128.6% on the same period last year. DonateLife WA coordinates all organ and tissue donor activities across WA. It works with hospitals and hospital-based DonateLife medical and nursing specialists to provide professional donation services and encourage best practice to increase donation rates. The national donation target is 25 donors per million population (this is called the 'dpmp). The population of WA is approximately 2.8 million people so to reach the targeted dmpd, DLWA would need to support 70 donors over the course of the year. With the impressive donation rate in these first four months, the target is looking more and more achievable. This ultimately means that more people than we hope may be given the gift of life. Donate Life State Medical Director... -
Heart Week 2022 06 May 2022 Amidst the ongoing challenges and uncertainties surrounding Covid, the health profession has found that many other important checks and ‘upkeeping’ have fallen by the wayside, none so much as heart checks. This week is the Heart Foundation’s Heart Week (external site)-‘one Australian is having a stroke or heart attack every 4 minutes’ is their scary but need-to-hear message, and the Heart Foundation is calling on Aussies aged 45-74 to resume annual Heart Health Checks. Consultant Cardiologist in SCGH’s Cardiovascular Medicine Department, Dr Brendan McQuillan, spoke of the concern around the Covid-focus of the past 2 years taking away from what is still the biggest cause of deaths globally: heart disease. “Shane Warne’s recent untimely death was shocking, but he had the life patterns that led to it and it helped educate some about who could ... -
Aboriginal cadetships getting results 04 May 2022 While studying Paramedicine, Rhiannon Potiphar joined the Aboriginal Cadetship Program, a key NMHS workforce initiative aimed at attracting Aboriginal students into the Department of Health. Rhiannon assisted at KEMH one day a week to begin with, working up to full time when she graduated from university. Rhiannon’s role was to liaise with Aboriginal families who had given birth to pre-term babies in the neonatal intensive care unit and to encourage them to come back for ongoing developmental assessments. “I built a strong network with the parents, the regional child health nurses and local Aboriginal medical services in an effort to connect with families who lived remotely,” said Rhiannon. “This project really allowed me to further my understanding of the complexities and barriers that our mob face when trying to receive health care.” Rhiannon’s time...
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12/04/2021