{"id":11095,"date":"2022-11-09T15:46:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T05:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/?p=11095"},"modified":"2022-11-10T08:36:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T22:36:16","slug":"cmo-20221109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/executive-messages\/cmo-20221109","title":{"rendered":"Message from the Chief Medical Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container 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 fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1352px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div id=\"attachment_11038\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11038\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11038 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/11\/elizabeth-rushbrook-l-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Liz Rushbrook Chief Medical Officer Emergency Management and Business Continuity\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/11\/elizabeth-rushbrook-l-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/11\/elizabeth-rushbrook-l-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/11\/elizabeth-rushbrook-l-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/11\/elizabeth-rushbrook-l-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/11\/elizabeth-rushbrook-l.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Liz Rushbrook<br \/>Chief Medical Officer<br \/>Emergency Management and Business Continuity<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>We are currently seeing a\u00a0slight\u00a0increase in patients with COVID\u00a0in our hospitals and virtual ward, so it\u2019s timely to remind all staff about our COVID precautions:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Stay home if you\u2019re unwell<\/li>\n<li>Keep up to date with your vaccinations and boosters<\/li>\n<li>Maintain good hand and respiratory hygiene<\/li>\n<li>Take a RAT if you get COVID symptoms\u00a0(register your result if positive)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Staff, contractors and students with COVID are not to enter a Metro North Health hospital, aged care or disability care facility for seven days following their positive test result. This includes all buildings or workplaces where any patients attend or are located.<\/p>\n<p>Staff who are household contacts of someone with COVID-19 are not required to stay away from work. Household contacts should wear a mask, be vigilant for symptoms, and take a test if any symptoms develop within 7-10 days of exposure. It\u2019s recommended these staff take a RAT every two days for the first five days after exposure. RATs should be made available for these staff.<\/p>\n<p>Staff and visitors are encouraged and supported to wear a mask at work, particularly when providing care to, working with, supporting or visiting vulnerable patients. Visitors are requested not to enter our facilities if they are COVID positive. A COVID-Safe visit can be facilitated if required.<\/p>\n<p>Clinical areas should\u00a0be now\u00a0checking stock levels for masks and ensuring there\u00a0is\u00a0sufficient for the PPE requirement of the area in the event that we move\u00a0to a different traffic light level in accordance with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/comms.health.qld.gov.au\/ch\/92002\/wfk1r\/5623\/nBgUYC9CLeSYPrrs0M21Kn27cBPzudyOIL5q71Zr.html\">COVID Traffic Light Advice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>EOI Virtual Ward<\/h2>\n<p>With more COVID patients admitted to the virtual ward, I\u2019m looking for Senior Medical Officers who are interested in working within this area either full-time, part-time or on a casual basis. In particular,\u00a0infectious diseases, emergency medicine, thoracic or general medicine specialists are needed.<\/p>\n<p>Please respond to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/comms.health.qld.gov.au\/ch\/92002\/wfk1r\/5624\/nBgUYC9CLeSYPrrs0M21X9ft2oYGIo07b9G9kpGG.html\">EOI on the Metro North EOI<\/a>\u00a0portal\u00a0if you are interested (the EOI will go live overnight tonight).<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Liz Rushbrook<\/strong><br \/>\nChief Medical Officer<br \/>\nEmergency Management and Business Continuity<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently seeing a slight increase in patients with COVID in our hospitals and virtual ward, so it\u2019s timely to remind all staff about our COVID precautions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":11038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-executive-messages","category-cmo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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