Lennox Jay arrived on Tuesday 20 September at the #RBWH, soon to join his four older siblings at home. 🖐️

"His brother Zac forgets his name and calls him scratch. I think the name might stick around for years to come!" mum Kelli said.

"Jay is my middle name, so we were going to call him LJ, or Knox - now its scratch."

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If you have been to ward 7A South at #RBWH, you may have come across orthopaedic social worker, Stacey! 👩🏻

As an orthopaedic social worker, Stacey is responsible for providing emotional, adjustment and psychosocial support to patients in the 30-bed ward who are recovering from a range of traumatic injuries and experiences. 💗

“A lot of the patients I see come in because of motor vehicle accidents or major traumas that can cause spinal injuries, various fractured limbs or even loss of limb,” Stacey said.

“Depending on the injury, a person can go from walking independently one day, to suddenly needing to function in a completely different way the next.

“These adjustments can have huge impacts on their families, so it’s equally important to check in and make sure they’re doing OK and support them where we can as well.” 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

The team are currently advertising a social worker role to manage the burns unit, so click the link to apply and join Stacey and the team today: bit.ly/3dpvCyX 💫

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Baby Freddie was born on Wednesday 14 September at the #RBWH, 5 days before his planned C-section date, much to Mum Lucy's surprise. 💙

"My husband is in the army and was due to fly out to Canberra for a night when my waters broke," Lucy said.

"I told him to cancel because we're having a baby today!"

Freddie is the second son of British born parents Lucy and William who packed up and moved to Australia three years ago after William got a transfer from the British Army to the Australian Army. 🇬🇧🇦🇺

"We absolutely love it here, I don't think we will be going back anytime soon!" she said.☀️

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You’ll be safe in the hands of our Orthopaedic department at #RBWH who make it their mission to fix and heal your broken bones after a motor vehicle or bike accident! 🏍🚗

As a doctor at #RBWH, Tim has seen patients suffer up to 15 different bone fractures from an accident and says repairing them can take up a whole working day. 🦴

“We do a lot of pelvic and spinal injury repairs from traumas that come in caused by motor bikes and cars,” Tim said.

“Every now and then someone comes in with multiple long bone fractures that can take up to eight hours in theatre to repair.

“We might need to do full replacements of bones with implants if they’re too damaged, but if the fracture can be reconstructed, we can use plates and screws or nails to re-align the bones so that it can heal in the correct position.”

If you’d like to be a part of our powerhouse Orthopaedic departments at #MetroNorth, apply to join the #TPCH doctors here today as a PHO: bit.ly/3dcm5ew

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Can you imagine conducting your academic research within the parameters of a busy emergency department?

Dr Julian Williams and nurse Mercedes sure can, as a team of multidisciplinary professionals at #RBWH who this year were awarded the Emergency Medicine Foundation grant for Trials in Emergency for Advancing Management of Sepsis.

With today marking #WorldSepsisDay, affecting up to 50 million people a year, it's important to have this research happening right here at Metro North. 🏥

"The funding will allow us see if there is place for new technologies that will help us identify the bacteria, learn how to use blood cultures better and reduce the amount of antibiotics used," Julian said.

"Research in the ED is so uncommon, because it's so busy trying to do any research in such a chaotic environment." 🩺 ... See MoreSee Less