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Caboolture Hospital doctor uses COVID-19 experience to inform patient care
Melbourne’s Jack Cooper is one of 17 new medical interns who has launched his career as a doctor at Caboolture Hospital this year, moving to the Sunshine State from Victoria.
COVID-19 (coronavirus) Fever Clinics and Community Assessment Clinics
Metro North Hospital and Health Service is conducting COVID-19 (coronavirus) screening at Fever Clinics and Community Assessment Clinics at a range of locations.
Delirium awareness key to early diagnosis
Staff at The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH) will wear yellow on 17 March for World Delirium Day, to raise awareness about one of the most under-diagnosed and misunderstood cognitive conditions worldwide.
Advanced Care Planning Week at RBWH
Between 22-26 March 2021, RBWH will be encouraging all Australians to discuss their future healthcare preferences with their loved ones for Advanced Care Planning Week.
Metro North celebrates strong female workforce this International Women’s Day
#ChoosetoChallenge: the theme of 2021’s International Women’s Day campaign and a phrase many women just like STARS Security Coordinator Wendy Roestenburg have adopted as their mantra in the workplace.
Queensland’s first new digital hospital STARS is ready for business
Healthcare, including elective surgery, is now underway at STARS and is set to reduce patient wait lists and increase access to specialist treatment for approximately 100,000 Queenslanders each year.
$10M Herston Biofabrication Institute Opens
Health Minister Yvette D’Ath and Metro North Health staff officially opened the Herston Biofabrication Institute this week, set to advance healthcare research and technologies in Queensland.
Research study may find new therapies for heart failure sufferers
A research group at The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH) is investigating the cause of abnormal heart rhythms in people with advanced heart failure, to help identify potential new therapies.
How love and loss affects our hearts
When broken hearts are real and time really does heal: how love and loss affects our hearts.
Heart transplant gives Nathan wave of hope for future
When Nathan Pain blacked out on his surfboard while waiting to catch a wave, he would never have thought he was about to need a new heart.
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Welcome bark Sir Ralphalot! 🐶 We've got a special #ShoutoutSaturday for you today. This week TPCH's Children's Emergency Department welcomed the return of therapy dog Ralph after his break from the office during COVID-19.
Paw-fessionals like Ralph are brought in to help moderate anxiety among children when they arrive at hospital. For many kids, it might be the first time they're experiencing medical care in this way, so therapy dogs like Ralph are there to help relieve stress and provide emotional support.
Little Addison loved playing with Ralph while she was having her broken arm treated!
Thank you, Ralph and the team at Delta Therapy Dogs for visiting! 😍😍
Parents Dan and Christina were over the moon to meet their baby girl, Isla. But no one was more excited than two-year-old Louis, Isla's loud and proud big brother. 💕 Isla was born at RBWH on 11 May, 10.54 pm weighing 7.1 lbs.
"Today's the first time Louis has seen her, but he's been walking around the house saying 'baby Isla!' for a few days now," Dan said.
"It was a really quick birth, three hours from the couch at home to holding Isla. We're hoping we get to go home tonight!" Christina said.
We're sending lots of love to this beautiful family of four this #FeelgoodFriday! 🏡✨
TTS (or Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia) explained with RBWH Director of Infectious Diseases Dr Krispin Hajkowicz! Watch below to have your questions answered.
👉 TTS is an extremely rare and new type of blood clot where patients present with both a blood clot (thrombosis) and low platelet count (thrombocytopenia).
Today is #InternationalNursesDay! 🌟 Meet two of Redcliffe Hospital's fantastic nurse navigators, Julia and Louise!
"Nursing is a career that helps you save lives, bring happiness to individuals and their families, and comfort to those in need," Louise said.
"The opportunities are endless, you meet the most amazing people, there is not a day where you do not learn something new. Nursing makes you realise how special life is."
Know a nurse who deserves celebrating or are you a nurse yourself? Let us know in the comments below. 🙌🏥
New Caboolture Hospital doctor Jack Cooper has gone from being a COVID-19 positive patient to working on the COVID-19 frontline! Jack contracted COVID while working in Melbourne last year and found himself on the opposite side of the fence - as a patient relying on his peers to take care of him. 🏥
“My stay in hospital with COVID-19 showed me how I want to be as a clinician when I am caring for someone – many clinicians would talk about me but not to me, which was uncomfortable, as I knew the medical terminology they were using and what it meant,” he said.
“In theory, I think all doctors know we need to directly talk to our patients and involve them in their care, but having been on the patient side of things recently reminded me of the importance of this and how I’ll approach my role.”
We think Jack's experience will only solidify his patient care skills! 🤗 To hear Jack's story in his own words, check out his feature in the Courier Mail: bit.ly/3o0NPnj