News & events
News
Patient Initiated Follow Up putting patients first at STARS
STARS ENT patients will be offered a new pathway empowering them to request a follow up outpatients specialist appointment when required.
When lives change in seconds, RBWH social workers step up
RBWH’s hard working emergency medical and nursing staff are supported by a range of other professions, including a dedicated 24/7 team of highly skilled social workers.
The men’s health symptoms that shouldn’t be ignored
Throughout the Australian population, men’s health issues are increasing, largely driven by rising rates of obesity, chronic conditions and lifestyle choices.
New survivor network provides support for people recovering from major injury
The new Major Injury Survivors and Support Community (MISC+) at RBWH is supporting patients and families who have suffered traumatic injury and are navigating the complexity of recovery.
Electrolytes: essential nutrient or expensive trend?
Electrolyte supplementation is gaining popularity on social media, but do most people need a daily serve of electrolytes, or is it just an expensive wellness trend?
RBWH pharmacist unpacks the social media peptide hype
A fast-growing social media trend promoting injectable peptides is prompting warnings from health professionals who say many of these products are unregulated, poorly understood, and potentially dangerous.
What is obstetric medicine and why is it important?
You probably know what an obstetrician does, but do you know the role of an obstetric medicine specialist?
Maintaining memory with dignity
Preserving a good memory is a common health concern for people as they grow older.
RBWH remembers trailblazing cancer care volunteer
RBWH has unveiled a memorial to honour pioneering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cancer support worker Maureen Kirk.
Improve your daily dose of doze
Sleep experts estimate that 3 in 4 Australians are struggling to get a good night’s sleep which is becoming increasingly recognised as a pillar of good health.
Events
Advanced Life Support - Level 1 Course
Date: 26 August 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.
Advanced Life Support - Level 1 Course
Date: 9 September 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.
Advanced Life Support - Level 1 Course
Date: 16 September 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.
Advanced Life Support - Level 2
Date: 15 - 16 October 2026
Time: TBC
Venue: The Prince Charles Hospital
2-day course focusing on developing advanced skills in managing the deteriorating patient and cardiac arrest
Advanced Life Support - Level 2
Date: 19 - 20 November 2026
Time: TBC
Venue: The Prince Charles Hospital
2-day course focusing on developing advanced skills in managing the deteriorating patient and cardiac arrest
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Step inside the RBWH Level 4 Perioperative Suites and find out what a perioperative nurse gets up to each day!
This busy team are looking for experienced theatre nurses to join their ranks via the EOI linked below (Registered Nurse (NG 5) - Operating Rooms Level 4 RBWH).
Share this video with someone who you think should take their next career step, or if this sounds like you, don’t hesitate to apply! 🙌
metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/eoi/?filter_22=Nursing%2FMidwifery&mode=any
Go Team! I do prefer appendicectomies over GSWs though...
Spent 16 years in these theatres, always great teams doing amazing work.
Go Team!!
Great team
Well done guys! Love your work 💙
Love you work guys!
Great video team! 👏🏼
A great team. They do a wonderful job every day 👏👏👏👏
Well done team 👏👏👏. It is nice to put a face to the voice when I ring theatres per work day. You are all so helpful. Thank you all.
You guys scrub up well!! Well spoken ❤️❤️
Wow, I am so happy to see you all❤️I miss working at Royals and with the amazing team. Hats off to the hard work you all do❤️
Tash Johnson 🤔
Metronorth Health - You still have graduate nurses who were offered jobs at the beginning of the year and, six months later, are still sitting at home waiting to start their perioperative graduate program. This happens every year to multiple graduates. How about fulfilling the positions already promised to these nurses before hiring new staff? They deserve better.
It's that time of the year - the winds are blowing, a Brisbane public holiday is just hours away, and the RBWH Food Services team has brought the @Ekka to our wards with iconic strawberry sundaes! 🍓🍦
Following extremely positive feedback from last year, these strawberry treats were back on the menu for patients like Brenda to enjoy.
“I have multiple myeloma so staying very positive that I will beat it,” Brenda said.
“I have been to the Ekka once with my kids about 25 years ago but went to the Victorian show as a kid. For me, I loved the showbags, the Sunny Boy and Bertie Beetle.”
Strawberry ice cream and Dagwood dogs. That’s the Ekka food for me 😁
Please keep them on the menu a little longer so I can enjoy them too! Going in for radio active iodine treatment on Monday and currently doing low iodine diet and no dairy or soy either. Went to the Ekka but couldn't have the iconic ice creams.
Enjoy Brenda and sending you loads of positive vibes 🤗
Yes they were very popular with my patients today they enjoyed them
U should see TPCH Food Services menu for Ekka Wednesday 😉
Such a great initiative.🙏
I love this!
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"Nine years ago, I failed a medical so within two weeks I got a pacemaker and was defibbed a couple of times throughout the years. I slowly started to go downhill in five years with cardiomyopathy and started coming to Brisbane in 2022 for treatment. I worked up to transplant and qualified, they've got to match things like size, and need to match a certain blood type, and so I received my transplant recently. I spent four days in ICU. All the staff have been awesome; it's like a little family here. We own a transport company so hoping to get my truck licence back and get back to some travel, I really want to go to Tasmania."
💭 Monday Mantra, Wayne, TPCH Ward 1B Patient
Good to see you looking so well Wayne, speedy recovery so you can get back to doing what you love with your lovely family. ❤️
Good luck hope you get your wish
You will definitely get to Tassie Wayne.
All the best with your recovery and your plans to get to Tasmania.
Woohoo goo Wayne!
Yes they are awesome people
Best of luck Wayne
Good luck you will get to Tasmania! ❤️💜
Be patient, with yourself. All will be good 👍
All the best with your recovery.Hope you get to see how beautiful Tasmania is
All the best mate
I hope you get a k on your feet soon and get that trip to Tassie .one of the nicestplzces in 5he world to visit. So much to see so peaceful and the food and people are the best.
Looking great Wayne, you have been in our thoughts, you and your family, back on the road in no time. It is wonderful that you received this gift. Take care
RBWH is the best
It can be difficult to know what to say or do when supporting someone who is grieving the loss of a loved one. 🫂
Metro North Grief and Bereavement Service Coordinator Kylie hears this often from patients and families who access Metro North’s palliative care services, but tell us that supporting others in their grief is a skill we all need to develop.
The free ‘supporting others in their grief’ workshop is on at the Brighton Wellness Hub from 9am on Wednesday the 2nd of September. Click the link below to find out more and register your attendance. 🫶
metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/workshop-flyer.pdf
A clever, caring, and compassionate lady we are very lucky to have! An integral part of metro north palliative care service 🤗
Thank you Kylie.. you are amazing. So grateful for all you have done to help me through my journey. 🙏💐😔
Thanks Kylie!!!!
This year marks the 60th of year of Irene's nursing and midwifery career, commencing at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in 1966 before moving to the RBWH in 1973, and starting her midwifery studies in 1975. 👩⚕️🌟
Over the last 60 years, Irene has seen many changes to nursing practice, most recently being the introduction of the integrated electronic Medical Record patient record system (ieMR) for which she has recently completed her training.
"Going live [with ieMR] is going to be very advantageous because we're not waiting for notes to be uploaded or waiting for someone to input them. It’s difficult when you're learning it as it's a completely new way of thinking, but I think it will be cool," Irene said.
"When the Centre for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment was introduced, and I didn't really want to go there because I didn't know what I had to do. But I went there and truly it was the best part of my working career, being able to support women with abnormalities in their pregnancy.
Speaking on some of her career highlights, Irene finds it hard to choose just one.
"I was fortunate enough to be working in theatre when they did the first kidney transplant in Queensland, I was also the first nurse in our training to get married, so I didn't have to live in during my last two years - and I did classes for non-English speaking women with our interpreters where we would work through their birth plan!"
👏 A massive #ShoutoutSaturday to Irene and her successful and ongoing 60-year career!
hi Irene....congratulations! so proud to have you as my relative.
Gosh how wonderfull ,did my RN at Mackay Base finishing 1969 , did Mid in 1970 R’hampton , as the Gov then gave us $200 if we studied Mid within 6 wks of finishing our Gen training ,,my N career finished GCH 2013 , still miss the commerardery,, you are a wonderfull advercasery for the profession 💙
Congratulations. What an innings Irene! 🩷
What an incredible & lengthy career you’ve had. Irene 👏👏👏👏
Congratulations!!! 🎉
Congratulations on your wonderful nursing career....I can also vouch for EMR .....its fantastic ...we have it at my work too.
I am so grateful for the opportunity of working with you Irene Szogi! So much experience and knowledge wrapped up in such an interesting and funny lady 💚
Congratulations Irene Szogi! Loved working with you. Loved your stories! You could write a book! Keep them all guessing Irene 😜😜😘😘
Congratulations Irene You passion, kindness and professionalism is very inspiring Great working with you
Big Congratulations Irene, you certainly have had an amazing career. 🥳
Wow that is absolutely amazing! Congratulations on an incredible milestone and wonderful career. You don’t look old enough to have been nursing for 60 years! 💕
Oh my gosh Ireney what an amazing achievement. I love hearing all your wise story’s from your career congratulations Irene Szogi 🥳 🤍🎉🥂
You look amazing! 60yrs you don’t even look 60 Congratulations what a career 🩷
CONGRATULATIONS Irene! You were an amazing midwife when I worked with you, and an equally amazing person. ❤️
Fantastic Irene and a huge thankyou for serving our community
Congratulations on your nursing career Irene.
I was PAH 1974 prelim. Great to see a PA girl do so well and last so long. Congratulations. RBWH nurses used to call us “the Princesses from over the river” then. Well you’re a Queen!!!
Thank you Irene for your wisdom and kindness, always meeting women and families where they are at 😌
Congratulaions Irene
Irene Szogi! You are the most amazing inspiring midwife 😍 You are the queen 🫅
So inspiring! 🌟 Congratulations Irene 🫶🏾
Incredible! Congratulations 🥂
Wooohooo IRENE!!!! I've always admired your intelligence, grace, kindness and dedication to your work. A well deserved shout-out! Congratulations!!! 🥳❤️👏🍾
Irene - I remember your change to go to CFDT …you just kept going and look what was established! Congratulations.👏
