December 2019
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Toni Gabelish: Aboriginal Liaison Officer and Rising Star
At the fourth and final Staff Recognition Awards Ceremony for 2019, Toni Gabelish, Aboriginal Liaison Officer, was recognised as a Rising Star for her potential to grow and develop her career at Northern Health. Karen Bryant, Senior Aboriginal Liaison Officer, who nominated her, said, “Toni is a new addition to our team. She has great people’s skills and relates well to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients. Toni is originally an Aboriginal Health Worker, working in many health positions up north of Australia in local Aboriginal community health services, this has been a great advantage to the knowledge of our…
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Six months of Broadmeadows Unit 1 CUSP
Broadmeadows Hospital Unit 1 Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (CUSP), a key component of our HRO Trusted Care transformation, celebrated six months since it started in June 2019. CUSP is a safety culture program designed to improve awareness about patient safety and build clinical practice. The program aims to build clinical teams as centres of local knowledge, sharing expertise from all quarters of the local clinical community. The regular CUSP meetings reflect on ward-based safety issues, with a multidisciplinary approach to reducing rates of harm and improving the delivery of patient care. Dr Louise Monk, Geriatrician and Clinical Lead at Broadmeadows…
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Get to know…Dr Kim Jeffs
In this week’s Get to know: Q&A with… we catch up with Dr Kim Jeffs, Geriatrician. Get to know Kim: What is your coffee order? Double shot latte. Never take-away. If I don’t have five minutes to sit, sip and reflect then it isn’t time for coffee. What does a typical work day look for you? I’m a geriatrician, so my clinical work involves assessing and treating older people for their often complex health care needs. My work in Residential In-Reach takes me to Residential Aged Care Facilities, where I often see people with behavioural and psychological symptoms related to dementia.…
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Simulation expert Dr Brazil visits Northern
Dr Victoria Brazil visited Northern Hospital Epping to present on how simulation can help us improve the work that we do in health care, and most importantly, how to improve that work together. “It’s about team work, dealing with systems and with complexity in health care. That practically means that during the lecture and the workshop, we will go through different examples of where we can use the simulation modality to really examine what the issues are in hospitals,” she said. Dr Brazil says the issues in hospitals can be related to team performance, relationships between different departments or processes…
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Welcome new NUMS at Broadmeadows
Broadmeadows Hospital has recently welcomed two new Nurse Unit Managers. Naveeni Natkunarajah is the new NUM of Unit 1 and Belinda Nash is now the NUM of Unit 2. Naveeni started in early November and says this has been an ultimate career goal since she started her nursing career about 16 years ago. “I just couldn’t say no when the opportunity came up. Before taking this role, I was working in various nursing roles; as an aged care and rehab nurse coordinator, an ANUM and discharge support,” she said. She came across to Northern Health in 2017 and is a…