Wound-Stoma upgrades

There are great things happening at our Chermside Community Health Centre with John one of our grateful patients opening our two new refurbished clinical rooms for our Wound-Stoma Service.

John had plenty of great things to say about his two favourite Nurse Practitioners Damian and Monica.

Farewell to Stella!

We wish Aunty Stella every bit of joy and happiness as she says goodbye to the Diabetes team at North Lakes Health Precinct and moves onto the next exciting chapter of her life.

Happy retirement Aunty!

Nurse Grads join the team

Twenty-nine new graduates across two intakes have started their nursing careers at Community and Oral Heath.

The number has increased from nine nurse graduates in 2019.

Welcome!

Social work team

Our Community and Oral Health social work team has excepted our biggest intake of students ever with the directorate providing six out of 11 social work student placements across Metro North.

Values in Action – Teamwork

“Teamwork is about using everyone’s best skills together to achieve the same goal.”

Reina Veivers
Speech Pathologist
Complex Chronic Disease Team

Laugh Out Loud Moment

“We had a dental patient who came into our emergency clinics for dental treatment. The patient was Hungarian in background and came in with an interpreter. The patient kept talking to her interpreter and repeatedly kept saying the words ‘Corona, Corona, Corona’ while pointing to her mouth.

The interpreter seemed unfazed but we were confused. We became concerned and asked the interpreter if the patient was referring to COVID-19 and if yes, in what capacity. Turns out, in Hungarian, the word used for a ‘Crown’ is ‘Corona’ and the patient was referring to multiple crowns in her teeth.

It was ‘A Crowning Glory/’Corona’ moment for us in the surgery and we all chuckled before moving on.”

UQ Oral Health Centre – Clinic 3.3