{"id":3812,"date":"2021-12-14T13:30:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T03:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=3812"},"modified":"2022-01-19T10:32:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T00:32:26","slug":"ckw-1221-audrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/newsletters\/caring-together-update\/2021\/12\/ckw-1221-audrey","title":{"rendered":"Meet our Chaplain, Audrey"},"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-3813 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/12\/audrey-b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/12\/audrey-b-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/12\/audrey-b-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/12\/audrey-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;\" \/>At Caboolture Hospital, we value our volunteers enormously and we are incredibly grateful to have Audrey Choo as part of the volunteering team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Volunteers help to make visitors and patients feel welcome, supported and cared for \u2013 but Audrey and her team of chaplains are also here to lend an ear, a shoulder to cry on, and someone to confide in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very lucky to have a chapel at the hospital &#8211; they&#8217;re busy places and even if you just want a quiet moment, it&#8217;s the perfect spot to escape to for a little bit and have some time to yourself,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We see everybody and anybody, no matter what religion or background &#8211; we will help them on a journey to find or explore their faith or be someone they can talk to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes we talk to patients who just want to be forgiven for anything they think they\u2019ve done wrong and let them know that they\u2019re on the path to a better place, where they will be safe and cared for.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you leave the conversation with a patient and you see their smile and notice their posture relax, that&#8217;s how you know you&#8217;ve brought some peace of mind to that person, and that&#8217;s the most important thing we can do for patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Caboolture Hospital, we value our volunteers enormously and we are incredibly grateful to have Audrey Choo as part of the volunteering team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3812","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\/3812","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3816,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions\/3816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}