{"id":20836,"date":"2024-05-22T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/?p=20836"},"modified":"2024-05-24T10:05:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T00:05:33","slug":"knitting-nurse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/newsletters\/news-at-the-royal\/knitting-nurse","title":{"rendered":"Knitting for the needy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 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\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div id=\"attachment_20861\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20861\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20861 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/rbwh-knitting-sam-fb.jpg\" alt=\"Samantha a renal nurse at RBWH hold her knitted pieces for patients\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/rbwh-knitting-sam-fb-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/rbwh-knitting-sam-fb-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/05\/rbwh-knitting-sam-fb.jpg 400w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/600;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam noticed that her patients receiving kidney dialysis treatment often get cold.<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>On the days when Samantha isn&#8217;t busy being a renal nurse educator at RBWH, she is a member of the Arana Hills &#8216;Knitting for the Needy&#8217; group making special knitted pieces for her patients.<\/h4>\n<p>Sam has only just recently joined the group, but already has contributed a handful of beanies, scarves, shawls, mittens, and mended broken blankets or half-finished projects to be distributed to various hospitals and charities.<\/p>\n<p>Sam knows that her patients receiving kidney dialysis treatment often get cold, especially on their hand on the arm that the vascular access fistula is in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Typically, that hand will receive less perfusion or blood flow, resulting in that hand getting cold which is why I made the special mittens,&#8221; Sam said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This group has been very kind to me, helping me go through a rough time so I want to return the favour &#8211; it feels good being able to give back and offer comfort to my patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:50px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the days when Samantha isn&#8217;t busy being a renal nurse educator at RBWH, she is a member of the Arana Hills &#8216;Knitting for the Needy&#8217; group making special knitted pieces for her patients. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":20861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-at-the-royal"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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