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Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital

Cnr Butterfield St and
Bowen Bridge Rd
HERSTON QLD 4029

Phone: (07) 3646 8111

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You'll likely never see Wendy and her team during your visit to the RBWH, but you'll sure benefit from this team's work behind the scenes ensuring safe standards for Reusable Medical Devices (RMDs) across the hospital. 👀

A new purpose built Central Reprocessing Department in the works will allow an increased number of RMDs to be processed in the one area and will allow for smarter workflows and greater capacity to support the growing number of surgeries every year at the RBWH.

"The new department will centralise the reprocessing of all RMDs throughout RBWH and it is the coming together of several departments including thoracic medicine, gastroenterology and ENT outpatient scopes which they currently process within their own departments," Wendy said.

"Our primary RMDs come from the operating theatres and then we have 28 departments that are external to perioperative services that send us their RMDs so they can continue with their clinics, areas like outpatient clinics and birth suite.

"At the moment we have limited ability to grow so this new department will allow for the expansion of our services, and the new equipment will be designed for increased ergonomic efficiency!" ...

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Herston Infectious Diseases Institute (HeIDI) clinician research fellow and RBWH clinical nurse consultant Karen is making our medication processes safer! 🥼 💊

Each day we administer thousands of medications across our hospitals, with Karen's research through HeIDI and UQ dedicated to improving medication administration processes.

The tool she has created has been so effective, it's been picked up in Canada and America!

"When I started in safe medication practice 22 years ago, we didn't have a tool to assess our practice - my push from the start has been to design and validate a rigorous but simple and effective tool for nurses to make medication administration even safer," Karen said.

"It's shown a statistically significant improvement in safer medication practice, and it's a simple reminder and prompt for nurses when at the patient bedside, rather than adding another step to their busy day.

"It's been designed with consumers too, as patients are our final safety check - it's so important that we are engaging directly with our patients to make sure the medication is right and they are part of the process, keeping them safe in hospital and also when they go home."

#ShoutoutSaturday to Karen for her innovation to improve the way we work! 🙌 ...

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