{"id":3330,"date":"2021-10-27T10:15:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T00:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2021-10-28T11:46:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T01:46:17","slug":"new-artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/newsletters\/news-at-the-royal\/2021\/10\/new-artwork","title":{"rendered":"New artwork makes CCU a more welcoming place for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients"},"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\"><div id=\"attachment_3370\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3370\" class=\"size-fusion-400 wp-image-3370 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/ccu-artwork-b-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Valerie &quot;Wawarra&quot; Gruenberg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/ccu-artwork-b-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/ccu-artwork-b-226x150.jpg 226w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/ccu-artwork-b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/ccu-artwork-b-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/10\/ccu-artwork-b.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/266;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aboriginal artist Valerie &#8220;Wawarra&#8221; Gruenberg with her artwork<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The RBWH Coronary Care Unit (CCU) in partnership with the consumer portfolio has led a quality improvement project to raise awareness and promote a culturally safe environment for\u00a0Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people accessing the service.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The group commissioned local Aboriginal artist Valerie &#8220;Wawarra&#8221; Gruenberg to create an artwork to be displayed at the CCU entrance, with the aim of creating a welcoming environment and promoting cultural awareness and safety.\u00a0Valerie travelled all the way from Russell Island on 23 September to present the finished piece to the team.<\/p>\n<p>CCU clinical nurse Paul Clifford said that it is important that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consumers accessing the service are cared for respectfully and feel welcomed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cValerie has been working on the piece for the past year and put a lot of thought into the artwork with a message of health and connecting people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wanted to make inter-hospital transfers from across the state feel welcomed and has incorporated a journey across country and indigenous medicines to the artworks story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u00a0is vital for us as RBWH healthcare workers to acknowledge the traditional landowners, The Turrbal people, who have used medicines and provided care for their people for thousands of years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RBWH Coronary Care Unit (CCU) in partnership with the consumer portfolio has led a quality improvement project to raise awareness and promote a culturally safe environment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people accessing the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":3369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-at-the-royal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330","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=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3333,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions\/3333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}