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Healthy ageing service helping the elderly get out and about
A unique service which supports older persons address aged-related medical conditions and improving personal capabilities and mobility is seeing great results for Moreton Bay residents.
New school dental van facelift’s an eye catcher
A new fun dental van wrap is bringing smiles to our young patients at many state schools across Brisbane north and Moreton Bay. Pictured here are students Ruby, Frankie, Ava and Johnny.
What infectious disease specialists wish people knew about antibiotics
RBWH Infectious Disease specialist explains the risks and benefits of antibiotics and how to take them safely.
Events
Advanced Life Support - Level 1 Course
Date: 15 April 2026
Time: TBC
Venue: The Prince Charles Hospital
Level 1 courses are for those clinicians who want general competence in airway management and basic life support for a deteriorating patient and cardiac arrest. Suitable if you normally are part of team rather than the lead.
Adult Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation ECMO Course 2026
Date:28 April - 1 May 2026
3 - 6 November 2026
Time: TBC
Venue: The Prince Charles Hospital, Education Centre
This 4-day course will enable multidisciplinary teams with little ECMO experience to provide ECMO for patients with severe cardiac and respiratory failure.
Advanced Life Support - Level 2
Date: 14 - 15 May 2026
Time: TBC
Venue: The Prince Charles Hospital
2-day course focusing on developing advanced skills in managing the deteriorating patient and cardiac arrest
Masks are an important defence against respiratory illness and protection from dust and other airborne hazards.Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
Cnr Butterfield St and
Bowen Bridge Rd
HERSTON QLD 4029
Phone: (07) 3646 8111
Feedback about your care
RBWH-PLS@health.qld.gov.au
Phone: (07) 3646 8216
/ MetroNorthHHS
With over 20 years of experience under her belt, Nurse Educator Jem helps to lead, teach and inspire the next generation of nurses at TPCH. 👩⚕️🩺
An average day may consist of leading nursing orientations, running courses and catching up with new graduate nurses on the wards to answer questions and provide feedback and guidance.
"I started at the RBWH in the late 90's, I wanted to do something different, so I went and did a Bachelor of Education whilst working full time as a nurse as well as my Master of Nursing," she said.
"The best days are when I'm interacting with the patients and our staff, both new graduate nurses but also existing staff that have complex situations that they have questions about, or if they are looking for career advice on how to move forward in their role."
Jem and the team are on the hunt for another Nurse Educator to join them. Click the link in the comments to apply!
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Great educator
Hi Jem ! We miss you at RDH.
Go Gem! Miss working with you.
Gem of a Jem! Pleasure to work with!
Your the best Jem🥰
A day running into Jem is always a good day! Thanks for all that you do!
Great job . Yes love seeing your face back at TPCH
Jen is an absolute treasure ! She is bright, cheery and always helpful. We are certainly blessed to have her.
Great work Jem, you are a legend 👏
I feel incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to learn from Jem. As a Nurse Educator, Jem brings a calm, steady presence that immediately puts people at ease. What has always stood out to me is her genuine curiosity — she takes the time to understand each person’s learning needs, never assuming, always listening. That approach creates a space where growth feels supported rather than expected. Jem leads quietly but powerfully. She guides, encourages, and challenges in a way that builds confidence and capability in those around her. I’ve learnt so much from simply observing how she connects with staff and tailors her teaching to meet them where they are. This was highlighted at the Preceptorship workshop. Thank you, Jem, for your mentorship and for the impact you have on both individuals and the broader team. It hasn’t gone unnoticed.
Miss seeing your face around Jem! Such a beautiful soul & beautiful nurse! Really helped me out in my first year of nursing 🥰
Jem always lights up a room! An absolute credit to the education team 👩🏼⚕️
Such a wonderful mentor and colleague! 🌟
Legend! Love working with you Jem 💕
Looking good Jem
Go Jem!
Thanks for all you do Jem - always love having you back at TPCH
Good on you Jem. You still look like your oozing happiness. I bet you are still spreading it around to!
Go Jem, miss you at RDH. Always thankful for your kindness and guidance during the beginning of my nursing 🩷
We miss you Jem! Thankyou for your guidance throughout the first few years of my career 🥰
Go Jem, always so helpful 🥰
That’s a familiar face, missing you! 🥰
Always lovely to see Jem’s smiling face at TPCH.
You are an amazing Educator Jemima! TPCH is so lucky to have you.
This isn’t your average hospital ward, the RBWH Virtual Ward provides medical support and care from the comfort of your couch. 🤳❤️🩹
Go behind the computer screen and see what a day in the life at the Virtual Ward looks like. 🧑💻
Fantastic care and patient experience, thank you so much.
Absolutely brilliant!!!
I am in Toowoomba and I used for a post procedure pain crisis last year. Thank you it was a very reassuring experience🩷
I have had two admissions over the years, great service and care.
This looks like an excellent job for nurses looking for telehealth opportunities when the 13Health Virtual Nursing Service is restructured and will cease to exist in its present form in a few months time.
The state & federal health ministers need to work together because GP's are the experts in the community but due to lack of funding, continuity & nurses not working to their full scope of practice all sorts of random preventable patient harm occurs.
"I’ve been in Brisbane for 46 years, moved here from Bunbury WA. My mother was here having an operation and asked me to come and visit. I wasn’t going to stay, but I made friends and ended up not wanting to leave. Bunbury is a beautiful regional town; I miss the scenery, but not the flies. I’ve been on dialysis here at RBWH for 2 years. Dialysis takes time to adjust to, but I’m used to it now; it’s all part of getting older. Outside of this, I’m grateful for my good health. For Easter, I used to go away a lot. I enjoyed going to Noosa for the long weekend. Sometimes I’d go camping, too. I’ve been overseas 3 times. The first was to the UK in 1978. I stayed with a friend on Portobello Road. A very famous road in London, famous for antiques. I’ve also been to Italy, my favourite place to visit was Pompeii. I haven’t been to Portofino, but it’s somewhere I’d love to go."
💭 Monday Mantra, Steven, Dialysis patient at RBWH.
Great insight into your life, Steven! You've got a wonderful attitude...see you when we next take you home🚑🚑
Portobello road. What a place to be then. Good luck
Good luck I hope you get better soon
Good luck with your , dialysis, I had a partner that went thru that for nearly 3 year before getting a transplant .
Bunbury is a beautiful town! 🐬 Thanks for sharing some of your life story Steven!
M y mother was on Dialysis for 10 years and my Terry for two years. Not good.
It's not part of getting older. It can happen at any age.
The Easter bunny may be onto something, hopping (and jumping) exercises have great benefits for your health! 🐰❤️🩹
RBWH Physiotherapist Georgia shows you some exercises that you can try this weekend to keep you moving, active, and injury-free.
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."
Are you looking to advance your career in Medical Imaging? Click the link in the comments to apply today!
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So proud Andrew, you’re such a joy to work with 🙌
YASSSS Andrew !!
Oh Andrew what a outfit
Rachael Louise slayyyy Groundy
Had an endoscopy and you didn't show me a photo of my stomach just the tubes...still got worms I should come back
Hey you left me with my bare bum sticking out no staff and someone watching tv when I woke up after a colonoscopy
Even dr yuon the orthopaedic said I had worms and walked out when I was lying on the table in front of three ladies
Average joint still got worms in my intestines stomach and chest
Surely you would have seen the worms in my torso
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