{"id":7944,"date":"2022-05-26T08:57:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T22:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/uncategorized\/vr-helping-young-patients"},"modified":"2024-03-26T13:00:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T03:00:44","slug":"vr-helping-young-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/news\/vr-helping-young-patients","title":{"rendered":"Virtual reality helping young patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div id=\"attachment_7945\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7945\" class=\"size-fusion-400 wp-image-7945 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/05\/vr-helping-young-patients-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/05\/vr-helping-young-patients-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/05\/vr-helping-young-patients-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/05\/vr-helping-young-patients-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/05\/vr-helping-young-patients-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/05\/vr-helping-young-patients.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/267;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VR- Caboolture Hospital Paediatric Unit Nurse Unit Manager Michelle Hutch testing the VR device.<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>Virtual reality helping young patients<\/h1>\n<h4>It\u2019s amazing how much good a jar of pasta sauce can do to help sick kids!<\/h4>\n<p>The Common Good has used funds from the National\u00a0Curing Homesickness initiative to purchase virtual reality goggles, which provide an immersive and interactive experience for young patients in the Paediatric Unit at Caboolture Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Caboolture Hospital Paediatric Unit Nurse Unit Manager Michelle Hutch said the goggles distracted children, taking them through virtual reality adventures while clinical teams provided treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis helps reduce the anxiety produced by children when admitted to hospital and allows nursing and medical teams to provide appropriate care with minimal psychological harm,\u201d Michelle said.<\/p>\n<p>The Curing Homesickness Initiatives receives 50 cents from each bottle of specially branded pasta sauce Mum\u2019s Sause (yes, that is the correct spelling!) sold at Coles to fund initiatives across Australia that help get children home from hospital sooner, such as virtual reality goggles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe children that have used the goggles have be grateful for the donation,\u201d Michelle said.<\/p>\n<p>The Common Good is also well on the way towards providing other initiatives that will improve the care we can provide for children at Caboolture Hospital. Thanks for your support!<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Common Good has used funds from the National Curing Homesickness initiative to purchase virtual reality goggles, which provide an immersive and interactive experience for young patients in the Paediatric Unit at Caboolture Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9526,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944\/revisions\/9526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/caboolture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}