Staff News
Caring together for 30 years
Caboolture and Kilcoy Hospital and Woodford Corrections Health
Staff News
Caring together for 30 years
Caboolture and Kilcoy Hospital and Woodford Corrections Health
Caboolture Hospital – 30th Birthday wrap-up
1 November 2023Wow, 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 ...Norm Stevens, Patient Support Officer
30 October 2023I 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 ...Kathie Powter, Clinical Nurse Consultant for Heart Failure Service
29 October 2023My 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.Robyn Alexander and Emma Cooper
28 October 2023Before 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 ...Robyn Alexander and Emma Cooper
27 October 2023After 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 ...Caboolture Hospital Chapel
26 October 2023The 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 ...Paul Bryden, Consumer Representative
25 October 2023My 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 ...Marilyn Umney, Clinical Nurse Consultant (Gastroenterology)
24 October 2023I 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 ...Connie Gray, Assistant Nursing Director Ambulatory Care and Education
23 October 2023I 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 ...Helen Edwards, Clinical Lead Gynaecology Physiotherapy Screening Clinic + Physiotherapy Pelvic Health Service
22 October 2023I 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 ...Michelle Kilah, Clinical Nurse Paediatric Outpatients
21 October 2023I 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 ...Desré Arnold, Advance Care Planning Facilitator
20 October 2023I 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 ...Kay Bridges, Administration Officer Outpatient Services
19 October 2023I 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 ...Helen Corrie – Enrolled Nurse, Theatre
18 October 2023My 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 ...Ann Whalley – Coordinator, Learning and Development
17 October 2023I 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 ...Dr Thuy Frakking – A/Research Director Research Development Unit
16 October 2023When 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 ...Dr Tim McErlane, Intern
15 October 2023I 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 ...Caboolture Families: Kim, Gail and Sean Thomson
14 October 2023Kim, Gail and Sean Thomson, another Caboolture Family, all work at Caboolture Hospital in different roles.Caboolture families: Kirsch and Kersha Jacobs
13 October 2023We’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 ...Stella Bamaga, Indigenous Hospital Liaison Officer
12 October 2023I 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 ...Pat Andre – Intensive Care Unit
11 October 2023I 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.Rhemy Hinckesman Service Line Support Officer
10 October 2023I 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 ...Graham Winbank – NUM Day Procedure Unit
9 October 2023Eleven 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 ...Janine O’Keefe, Nurse Manager – CHRP Emergency Department
8 October 2023I 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 ...Dr Lindsay Cochrane – O&G Director
7 October 2023I 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 ...Katrina Cook: Nurse Manager – Elective Surgery Coordinator
6 October 2023I’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 ...First Director of Nursing Jill Smith
5 October 2023My 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 ...Tash Willmett – A/NUM ICU
4 October 2023Not 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 ...Children’s Nurse Unit Manager Michelle Hutch
3 October 2023I 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 ...Our longest serving volunteer Lauren Lang
2 October 2023My 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 ...Original midwife Trudi Young
1 October 2023I 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.
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