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This Easter weekend, the Geriatric Evaluation and Management Service (GEMS) at Caboolture will be filled with more than just chocolate eggs, with the ward also brimming with expert care and heartfelt gestures. 🐰💚

Clinical Nurse Rosaline describes how special it is to work in such a compassionate team with the shared goal of helping patients regain independence and support goals of returning home or transitioning into ongoing care.

"It’s a privilege to walk alongside patients and families during vulnerable moments, offering kindness, dignity, and connection while being part of a supportive and empathetic team," she said.

"Celebrations can be emotionally difficult for patients who are away from home, so we try to bring a sense of warmth, normalcy, and connection into the ward.

"We’ll be sharing Easter eggs and little chocolates, organising family lunches in our courtyard, and wearing fun Easter‑themed scrubs. These small gestures often create big moments of comfort, especially for patients who may feel a little lonely during the holiday period." ...

Every image tells a story, especially those produced by our highly skilled Radiologists at the RBWH. 🩻🎞️

Senior Medical Officer and Head and Neck Specialist Andrew explains how flexible working arrangements and collaborative team culture allows the team to produce the best results for patients.

"We are all travelling along this life and career journey together, we learn things from the young ones all the time. There is a real mentor and mentee relationship," he said.

"Occasionally we will all huddle around an interesting case, where everyone can learn from each other and collaborate. We also mix with a lot of clinicians that ask us questions and provide us information to make our reports better.

"We deal with such a wide variety of things, you’re not going to be pigeonholed into one specialty. It`s very `choose your own adventure` and if you have a specific strength that you are interested in, we can help facilitate that through teamwork and sharing the workload."

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Attending the TPCH ED unexpectedly is no picnic, but it`s certainly made better with gifted hand-knitted teddy bears and our Child Life Therapist Meenu! 🧸

Six-year-old Masie is just one recent visitor to our Kids ED who found comfort through play with Meenu, following a seizure as a result of her epilepsy.

The beautiful hand-knitted bears given to little patients like Masie are made by volunteers, including 102-year-old Dale, the mother of paediatric ED Doctor Faye.

"We come to the hospital a bit, but this makes it more fun and takes the pressure off," said Masie`s Mum, Chelyce. 🫶

"We can`t always go home straight away as we wait for tests, so this is a good distraction for Masie." ...

"I`m originally from Monto, there`s not much out that way. I transferred from Monto to Bundaberg and then Bundaberg to here. Advice for my younger self would be to accept the help and don`t try to be the perfect mum, it won`t work. I thought I could go back to being a normal mum right after my c-section. But when they say that all your pain disappears when you hear the baby cry for the first time, well, it really does."

💭 Monday Mantra, Kelly, Maternity patient at RBWH. ...