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Caring together for 30 years

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Wow, what a month October was for Caboolture Hospital! We certainly turned 30 in style. Thank you to everyone who shared your stories as part of our ‘30 Stories for ...

I was born in Atherton Tablelands and we moved around because my dad was a cane cutter. We spent a lot of time in Mossman as my mum is a ...

My nursing career started in 1979 at Parkes District Hospital in NSW. My hometown is famous for the movie ‘The Dish’ and the annual Elvis Presley birthday celebrations.

Before starting at Caboolture Hospital, I worked in Private Practice Law as an Executive Assistant/Legal Secretary. When I commenced with Caboolture in 2020, I started as an Administration Officer in ...

After leaving school, I did my nursing training at the Royal Brisbane Hospital from 1978 to 1981. Then I did my midwifery training at Royal Women’s Hospital in 1983-84. I ...

The Caboolture Hospital Chapel started from a project led by Mr Martin Jonkers, a Caboolture man and member of the local Rotary Club. Mr Jonkers’ aim was that the Chapel ...

My wife Christine and I lived and worked in Canberra for many years. Christine was diagnosed with early onset dementia at 46 years old and over the years became a ...

I have been nurturing a dream to become a nurse since I was seven. This journey kicked off when my mum took me to our local hospital and I, a ...

I trained in-hospital at Ipswich Hospital in 1987, straight out of school. When I got my registration, I moved to Redcliffe and worked in the Paediatric Unit. Wanting to I ...

I did my physiotherapy training in the UK and for the first few years I loved working in the respiratory area. However, after moving to Australia and returning to work ...

I completed my training at St Andrews Private Hospital in Brisbane in 1986. We were the final group of hospital-based trainees and the only hospital to still wear the good ...

I started in 3A when the hospital opened in 1993. There was a small estate starting to be built in what is now Central Lakes but the area between the ...

I started at Caboolture Hospital in 1994, about seven months after it opened. I was employed as the HBCIS Trainer which quickly evolved into becoming the HBCIS and software helpdesk ...

My mother was a nurse and my sister became a midwife, so it was no surprise when I started working as an Assistant-in-Nursing at Selangor Private Hospital in Nambour in ...

I started at Caboolture Hospital in January 2005 as a permanent AO2 admin reliever. I got put in everywhere and anywhere I was needed. It was crazy but a great ...

When you think of smaller hospitals like ours, research may not be the first thing that comes to mind. Within the CKW Research Development Unit (RDU), we aim to change ...

I think everyone in my immediate family has worked or had some involvement with Caboolture Hospital. I was born at Caboolture Hospital in 1997. Mum worked here in CSSD and ...

Kim, Gail and Sean Thomson, another Caboolture Family, all work at Caboolture Hospital in different roles.

We’re Kirsch and Kersha Jacobs. Yes! We have basically the same name – it’s the reason we met. We had a mutual friend who mentioned that she knew someone with ...

I am a proud Torres Strait Islander woman descendant from Saibai Island in the Torres Strait. I came from a little community known as BAMAGA in the Northern Peninsula Area ...

I began my nursing career many moons ago at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. I left to have my family and then returned to complete my nursing degree.

I started working at Caboolture Hospital in 2019 when I 16 years old as part of the school-based trainee program. Alongside my dream of making it into the National Rugby ...

Eleven months of the year, you might know me as the NUM of the Day Procedure Unit at Caboolture Hospital. In October, you may recognise me as the six-foot bearded ...

I interviewed in late 1993 and commenced employment in the Children’s Ward in 1994. I worked there for two years, then moved to the original Emergency Department with only 13 ...

I first came to Caboolture Hospital in 2000 as a senior registrar. I had heard that Dr Aldo Vacca, a renowned expert on vacuum birth was working in Caboolture, so ...

I’ve been a nurse in Metro North Health for more than 15 years. I spent 11 years at Redcliffe Hospital before coming to Caboolture Hospital about four years ago. Between ...

My nursing career began in September 1967 in the Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania. In 1993, I was working at Calvery Hospital Hobart as Assistant Director of Nursing – Management and ...

Not many people can say they had their child and got married where they work, but I can. I was working at Caboolture Hospital Emergency Department back in November 2002 ...

I started here in 1993, very soon after the hospital opened. It was scary. I was a newby and came here after doing one year at Redcliffe Hospital and one ...

My mum was the coordinator of the volunteer health care program at Caboolture Hospital with St John Ambulance and I used to help her out. Then I decided that I ...

I interviewed at the end of 1993 and started at Caboolture as the youngest midwife in the team in July 1994. The maternity ward opened in September 1994.