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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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Fiona Moate: Clinical Excellence in Hand Therapy
Fiona Moate, Hand Therapist who has been working at Northern Health for 17 years, won the Clinical Excellence Award at the last quarterly Staff Recognition Awards. She was recognised for her dedicated and outstanding clinical skills in assessment, splint fabrication and treatment provision for patients following complex hand trauma. Laurelle Bland, who nominated her, said
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2019 Annual General Meeting and Open Access Board Meeting
The 2019 Annual General Meeting and Open Access Board Meeting held this afternoon was well attended with representation from consumers, community members and Aboriginal Elders. This event provides an opportunity for the board and senior leadership team to engage with staff and consumers and showcase many of the initiatives and collaborations we have undertaken in
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LGBTIQ+ Ideas Labs
LGBTIQ+ staff and friends recently participated in Ideas Labs across our four sites. Through discussion, participants identified there may be more Northern Health could do to promote pride within the LGBTIQ+ community of the north. This includes improving LGBTIQ+ visibility through leadership, higher profile of LGBTIQ+ people and the use of relevant signs and symbols
