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Events
Advanced Life Support - Level 1 Course
Date: 15 April 2026
Time: TBC
Venue: The Prince Charles Hospital
Level 1 courses are for those clinicians who want general competence in airway management and basic life support for a deteriorating patient and cardiac arrest. Suitable if you normally are part of team rather than the lead.
Queensland Health Spirometry Training Program - The Prince Charles Hospital
Date:24 April 2026
8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Venue: The Prince Charles Hospital
The Spirometry training program provides clinicians with the skills, knowledge and specific competencies required to perform spirometry to international standards and Queensland Health guidelines.
Adult Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ECMO Course 2026
Date:28 April - 1 May 2026
3 - 6 November 2026
Time: TBC
Venue: The Prince Charles Hospital, Education Centre
This 4-day course will enable multidisciplinary teams with little ECMO experience to provide ECMO for patients with severe cardiac and respiratory failure.
"I was on a world cruise from England all the way around and back to England, and we were halfway through and I thought I'd picked something up in the Pacific, I was very feverish. My hunger disappeared and all I could take was cornflakes and cold milk. We had just docked in this beautiful place and I was taken here. They discovered I had a bit of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, it's common. I had a reaction to the first treatment but now it's working and I'm on the mend. The treatment here has been unbelievable from beginning to end. I’m here 24/7 but it’s marvellous. We'd been to New York where it was minus 9 [degrees], Panama in the canal, Hawaii and New Zealand. In good fortune, I found myself in this beautiful place."
💭 Monday Mantra, John, Oncology patient at RBWH.
![I was on a world cruise from England all the way around and back to England, and we were halfway through and I thought Id picked something up in the Pacific, I was very feverish. My hunger disappeared and all I could take was cornflakes and cold milk. We had just docked in this beautiful place and I was taken here. They discovered I had a bit of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, its common. I had a reaction to the first treatment but now its working and Im on the mend. The treatment here has been unbelievable from beginning to end. I’m here 24/7 but it’s marvellous. Wed been to New York where it was minus 9 [degrees], Panama in the canal, Hawaii and New Zealand. In good fortune, I found myself in this beautiful place.
💭 Monday Mantra, John, Oncology patient at RBWH.](https://metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/wp-content/plugins/custom-facebook-feed-pro/assets/img/placeholder.png)
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"I was on a world cruise from England all the way around and back to England, and we were halfway through and I thought I`d picked something up in the Pacific, I was very feverish. My hunger disappeared and all I could take was cornflakes and cold milk. We had just docked in this beautiful place and I was taken here. They discovered I had a bit of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, it`s common. I had a reaction to the first treatment but now it`s working and I`m on the mend. The treatment here has been unbelievable from beginning to end. I’m here 24/7 but it’s marvellous. We`d been to New York where it was minus 9 [degrees], Panama in the canal, Hawaii and New Zealand. In good fortune, I found myself in this beautiful place."
💭 Monday Mantra, John, Oncology patient at RBWH.
!["I was on a world cruise from England all the way around and back to England, and we were halfway through and I thought I'd picked something up in the Pacific, I was very feverish. My hunger disappeared and all I could take was cornflakes and cold milk. We had just docked in this beautiful place and I was taken here. They discovered I had a bit of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, it's common. I had a reaction to the first treatment but now it's working and I'm on the mend. The treatment here has been unbelievable from beginning to end. I’m here 24/7 but it’s marvellous. We'd been to New York where it was minus 9 [degrees], Panama in the canal, Hawaii and New Zealand. In good fortune, I found myself in this beautiful place."
💭 Monday Mantra, John, Oncology patient at RBWH.](https://metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed-pro/img/placeholder.png)
Experiencing pain can often feel like so much more than just a number between 1 and 10. 🤕
Director of the Tess Cramond Pain and Research Centre Dr Conrad says that many doctors are moving away from using numerical pain scales and instead are focusing on what patients can and can’t do when experiencing pain.
“After a surgery or procedure, it’s really important to be able to get out of bed, be able to cough, take deep breaths, and engage in rehabilitation. Regardless of your pain score, if you are able to do those things, we consider that you are doing really well,” he said.
He also recognises how pain can be influenced by other factors such as your environment.
“Often patients may use pain scores as a way to communicate distress rather than just pain,” he said.
“Pain is such a multifactorial experience that is often associated with mood, social situation, anxiety, worry.” 🧑⚕️
Our social workers sit at the heart of our hospitals ensuring that our most vulnerable patients are supported. ❤️🩹🏡
Senior Social Workers Tania and Emily are critical in improving patient flow throughout TPCH by providing discharge planning advice to assist patients returning home.
Their work extends beyond the hospital by providing alternative discharge solutions including the use of the new St Martins Interim Care service where patients who are awaiting a permanent residential aged care spot can be cared for instead of staying in hospital.
"We help to overcome systemic barriers and concerns during the discharge process whilst ensuring every person is treated with dignity, respect and kindness," Tania said.
"You have to be so creative and really understand systems and discharge planning, but also advocacy is so important, otherwise people wouldn’t get out of hospital. That’s what social workers are really great at," Emily said.
#ShoutoutSaturday to all of our Metro North social workers including Tania and Emily. 👏
When people hear “physiotherapy”, they often think of sports injuries or sore backs, but physiotherapists work in so many areas of healthcare that many people never see. 👀
Take a look through some of the unique things that the Redcliffe Hospital Physiotherapy team get up to on a daily basis to help our patients on their recovery journeys. 💪
