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10 August 2026
Tight-knit twosome deliver more beanies for babies at RBWH
RBWH volunteers Pat and Di have been knitting beanies for newborns for a decade.
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Staying on top of one’s health can be tough, with many men opting to delay or avoid important conversations about their health until it comes to the crunch.
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Honouring five decades of dedicated service at RBWH
RBWH reached the end of an era with the retirement of Dr Barry O’Loughlin after a 50-year association with the hospital.
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It's that time of the year - the winds are blowing, a Brisbane public holiday is just hours away, and the RBWH Food Services team has brought the @Ekka to our wards with iconic strawberry sundaes! 🍓🍦
Following extremely positive feedback from last year, these strawberry treats were back on the menu for patients like Brenda to enjoy.
“I have multiple myeloma so staying very positive that I will beat it,” Brenda said.
“I have been to the Ekka once with my kids about 25 years ago but went to the Victorian show as a kid. For me, I loved the showbags, the Sunny Boy and Bertie Beetle.”
Please keep them on the menu a little longer so I can enjoy them too! Going in for radio active iodine treatment on Monday and currently doing low iodine diet and no dairy or soy either. Went to the Ekka but couldn't have the iconic ice creams.
Such a great initiative.🙏
Yes they were very popular with my patients today they enjoyed them
U should see TPCH Food Services menu for Ekka Wednesday 😉
I love this!
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This year marks the 60th of year of Irene's nursing and midwifery career, commencing at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in 1966 before moving to the RBWH in 1973, and starting her midwifery studies in 1975. 👩⚕️🌟
Over the last 60 years, Irene has seen many changes to nursing practice, most recently being the introduction of the integrated electronic Medical Record patient record system (ieMR) for which she has recently completed her training.
"Going live [with ieMR] is going to be very advantageous because we're not waiting for notes to be uploaded or waiting for someone to input them. It’s difficult when you're learning it as it's a completely new way of thinking, but I think it will be cool," Irene said.
"When the Centre for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment was introduced, and I didn't really want to go there because I didn't know what I had to do. But I went there and truly it was the best part of my working career, being able to support women with abnormalities in their pregnancy.
Speaking on some of her career highlights, Irene finds it hard to choose just one.
"I was fortunate enough to be working in theatre when they did the first kidney transplant in Queensland, I was also the first nurse in our training to get married, so I didn't have to live in during my last two years - and I did classes for non-English speaking women with our interpreters where we would work through their birth plan!"
👏 A massive #ShoutoutSaturday to Irene and her successful and ongoing 60-year career!
hi Irene....congratulations! so proud to have you as my relative.
Gosh how wonderfull ,did my RN at Mackay Base finishing 1969 , did Mid in 1970 R’hampton , as the Gov then gave us $200 if we studied Mid within 6 wks of finishing our Gen training ,,my N career finished GCH 2013 , still miss the commerardery,, you are a wonderfull advercasery for the profession 💙
Congratulations. What an innings Irene! 🩷
What an incredible & lengthy career you’ve had. Irene 👏👏👏👏
Congratulations!!! 🎉
Congratulations on your wonderful nursing career....I can also vouch for EMR .....its fantastic ...we have it at my work too.
I love older nurses they are wonderful evaluators of pts conditions at a glance. Devoted to ensuring patients and families understand care and their condition. Are wonderful resource for younger nurses if they wish to listen and learn
I am so grateful for the opportunity of working with you Irene Szogi! So much experience and knowledge wrapped up in such an interesting and funny lady 💚
Congratulations Irene Szogi! Loved working with you. Loved your stories! You could write a book! Keep them all guessing Irene 😜😜😘😘
Congratulations Irene You passion, kindness and professionalism is very inspiring Great working with you
Big Congratulations Irene, you certainly have had an amazing career. 🥳
Wow that is absolutely amazing! Congratulations on an incredible milestone and wonderful career. You don’t look old enough to have been nursing for 60 years! 💕
Oh my gosh Ireney what an amazing achievement. I love hearing all your wise story’s from your career congratulations Irene Szogi 🥳 🤍🎉🥂
You look amazing! 60yrs you don’t even look 60 Congratulations what a career 🩷
CONGRATULATIONS Irene! You were an amazing midwife when I worked with you, and an equally amazing person. ❤️
Fantastic Irene and a huge thankyou for serving our community
Congratulations on your nursing career Irene.
I was PAH 1974 prelim. Great to see a PA girl do so well and last so long. Congratulations. RBWH nurses used to call us “the Princesses from over the river” then. Well you’re a Queen!!!
Thank you Irene for your wisdom and kindness, always meeting women and families where they are at 😌
Congratulaions Irene
Irene Szogi! You are the most amazing inspiring midwife 😍 You are the queen 🫅
So inspiring! 🌟 Congratulations Irene 🫶🏾
Incredible! Congratulations 🥂
Wooohooo IRENE!!!! I've always admired your intelligence, grace, kindness and dedication to your work. A well deserved shout-out! Congratulations!!! 🥳❤️👏🍾
We had a yarn with 87-year-old pals Pat and Di this week, when they dropped off hundreds of hand-knitted beanies for newborn babies at RBWH.
The duo have been knitting for little ones born at the hospital for 10 years, since Pat's daughter Helen suggested she get involved to keep herself busy.
"Helen worked here as a nurse, and one day she posted me a pattern and said I should make beanies for the babies," Pat said.
"I photocopied the pattern and gave it to Di, and then we started giving it to our friends with a ball of wool and some needles, so they had no excuse not to start."
Pat and Di currently have three friends that knit with them, estimating they have knitted approximately 8000 beanies for little patients over the years.
"I'm a big Brisbane Broncos and Brisbane Lions fan, but I knit all the team colours for the parents who barrack for other teams - I'm told the fathers love picking these ones," Di said. 🧶
Sharing the pattern for those who wish to learn to knit for babies in hospitals.
Each one made with love.
Well done 🫶
What a lovely story thank you for your kindness
Such a beautiful picture and wonderful ladies. What a blessing you have been for so many. 🙏🌹
Beautiful Aunty Di
Where do I get the pattern from
Thank you so much for your wonderful donations 🩵💕💜🩵💕💜
volunteers who knit or crotchet for charities,are priceless.as don-t know what we would do without them,and they obviously enjoy doing it!thanks to all.your are so appreciated!
A wonderful effort keep knitting
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Fantastic effort ladies, well done
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Always wondered frm where the binnies came from!
You are amazing ladies
What wonderful ladies well done
A pair of legends.. Well done ladies..
Well done ladies🌹🌹🌹🩷🩷🩷
I would love that pattern please,would love you to share it 🌸
That is simply wonderful. Amazing ladies.
Two beautiful ladies
Lucy and Roisin are two of our Medical Imaging Assistants working in Metro North as they complete their Nuclear Medicine studies, and some of our 10,000 new health workers across QLD. 💫
While they are in the first year of their degrees, the students spend two days on the job learning from experts and working with patients.
Eighteen year old Roisin always had an interest in physics and knew that she wanted to work in this area after meeting someone in the field at a careers day.
“I also loved healthcare - it seemed like the natural fit for me, and I would like to try stay at RBWH when I finish my study because the environment is great,” Roisin said.
Lucy agreed that the hands-on training with her degree made it a natural choice.
“I think it’s such a niche profession and it has a critical shortage of staff - but PET is growing and a lot of people are in need of those scans, so it’s great to contribute to that,” Lucy added.
Congratulations on choosing a great career path
Good
Good on you both. Nuclear Medicine is very important. As are PET scans. They can be life saving. Trust me, I know. I’m a survivor.
Ella Ainsworth
"I was born in Murgon, near Gympie and lived on my father's farm. Working with my father, he had subsequently bought me the farm across the road which became available, so I was a land owner at 17. We did dairy farming mainly; the country itself grew enough grass to milk cows. However, the lovely lady I married wasn't a farmer's wife, she was very intelligent and a talented pianist. So, we sold up and I got into pushing pens after milking cows, I adapted well and got my degree in economics and became an accountant. To my younger self, I'd say go for it again, you did some foolish things but overall, I'm fairly proud of what I have achieved."
💭 Monday Mantra, Bill, RBWH Ward 9A South Patient
What a brave young man you were to make such a big change. Good on you
Glad to hear happiness of life
Great story and life. Keep going!!
Lovely. he indeed has lived a well lived and happy life. Looks a nice guy too. Best wishes to you Bill.
Amazing man! Good on you! 👍
Thanks for sharing Bill. Be proud mate
G'day from the South Burnett 👋
Well done Bill.
You’re a bloody legend Bill. Kids these days should take more inspiration from people like you. Nothing better than growing up in the bush.
Great memories of being your page boy at your wedding Bill
Get well soon bill
9a south is the ward I was in after icu after my bike accident the staff there are awesome
Thats a great life. Well done adapting to two different worlds. True grit.
Thinking of you ❤️
Beautiful life!!
On yah Bill 🥰
Thank you for humanising your patients 💝 Through necessity, habit and bureaucracy we patients become numbers in the system but it is only by really seeing each of us as autonomous, fully-formed real people that we can create a better system together that protects and values both patients and healthcare staff <3
So you should be
He looks like a happy chap, love these stories!!
Well done 👏👏 and you're still smiling 😃
Good on I fella
Thankyou for your beaut story. Bill. I'm wishing for you to get well . Xxx
So proud to say seen this
You are in the best ward at the hospital the crew on 9a south are wonderful our family has spent a lot of time in that ward
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