{"id":1600,"date":"2021-07-02T09:22:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T23:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2021-07-09T16:04:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T06:04:12","slug":"experience-informs-patient-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/newsletters\/caring-together-update\/2021\/07\/experience-informs-patient-care","title":{"rendered":"Doctor uses experience to inform patient care"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1621 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/07\/jack-cooper-b.jpg\" alt=\"Medical intern Jack Cooper at Caboolture Hospital\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/07\/jack-cooper-b-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/07\/jack-cooper-b-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/07\/jack-cooper-b.jpg 400w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/600;\" \/>Melbourne expat 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jack, who worked at various Melbourne hospitals last year, contracted COVID-19 while on placement and spent time in Melbourne\u2019s COVID-19 hospital wards on the opposite side of the fence \u2013 as a patient relying on his peers to take care of him.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s now using this experience to shape his approach to patient care as an intern in the Emergency Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, it\u2019s changed me as a person but also as a professional working in medicine. It\u2019s been quite a time in history to start my medical career, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d Dr Cooper said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think my stay in hospital with COVID-19 showed me how I want to be as a clinician when I am caring for someone \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn theory, I think all healthcare professionals 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\u2019ll approach my role.<\/p>\n<p>While Caboolture Hospital hasn\u2019t seen too many COVID-19 patients, Jack says his personal experience has made him more aware of COVID-19\u2019s effect on people, both physically and mentally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a doctor, it has changed the way I approach patients and I\u2019ll always take my time now to make sure I\u2019ve answered all their questions and they\u2019re comfortable before I leave,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd personally, I\u2019ll never take anything for granted. I don\u2019t know what impact COVID-19 will have on my health long term and those unknowns really make you appreciate what is important in life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jack and his wife have now settled in Maleny and are enjoying calling the Sunshine State home.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne expat 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":1620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-caring-together-update"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}