February 2020
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A great place to work: Unit 3 Broadmeadows
Unit 3 at Broadmeadows Hospital manages aged care patients with acute medical issues, as well as dementia and delirium and gets them back to a stage where they can go back home or into Residential Aged Care. Lucia Bento, Nurse Unit Manager explains how Unit 3, a 28 bed ward has implemented a quality improvement activity called ‘diversional therapy’. This project has been developed to provide patients with activities to help keep them occupied, as well as assist in managing behaviours of concern. “We have introduced things like colouring and doll therapy, which helps anxious or agitated patients,” Lucia said.…
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Mother and daughter graduate nurse duo in Northern Health first
It’s a family affair this year at Northern Health with the first ever mother and daughter starting their careers together as graduate nurses in 2020. Rina and Shivani Buldaho were two of the 52 excited graduate nurses and midwives welcomed to Northern Health in January. Rina tells us she decided to pursue a career in nursing after she was inspired by her daughter completing her studies. “I would help Shivani with questions sometimes, and then I developed an interesting in nursing so I enrolled in the mid-year diploma,” she said. Rina’s daughter, Shivani, says it’s special to start her career…