2020
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Research Week 2020: Inspired Researchers
Who could have imagined that only six months ago that we would be hosting Research Week 2020 as a purely virtual event as we continue to transition a large proportion of our services towards digital health via telehealth, in-hospital monitoring and home-based healthcare solutions? It will be our inspired researchers who will lead the way
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Learning and education: how we moved online
When the first COVID-19 wave hit, learning and education was one of many processes that had to be quickly changed and adapted to the new reality. The education leads across the organisation were facing the same challenge – how to keep the education going – and with the roll out of MS Teams, things have
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Hybrid car up for grabs
Dr Kristen Pearson is thrilled to see a hybrid car up for grabs in this year’s Northern Health Foundation Raffle. Dr Pearson is a Geriatrician and member of Northern Health’s Environmental Sustainability Committee, as well as a volunteer with Doctors for the Environment. “I am delighted that Northern Health Foundation is offering a hybrid car
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Great care appreciated at Broadmeadows
Two warm patient experience stories are coming from our Broadmeadows Hospital, where both patients and staff have been working hard to make the hospital experience and recovery as quick and pleasant as possible. Elinor Fonovic was admitted to the Rehabilitation Ward on Unit 2 at Broadmeadows Hospital from Northern Hospital Epping 412 days ago, after
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GEM@Home: Nursing in the community
As part of Nursing in the Community Week, we celebrate our community nurses, who give special meaning to the phrase “frontline heroes”. GEM@Home has been operating since March 2015. Mathew Wood, Manager Transition Services, TCP, GEM@Home, and GEM@Resi says, “We provide interdisciplinary aged care and rehabilitation services after an illness or injury to older people
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World Patient Safety Day
Today, the World Health Organisation is commemorating World Patient Safety Day. The COVID-19 pandemic has unveiled the huge challenges and risks health workers are facing globally, and that is why the World Patient Safety Day 2020 theme is ‘Health Worker Safety: A Priority for Patient Safety’, with the official slogan “Safe health workers, Safe patients”.
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HARP: Nursing in the Community
This week as part of Nursing in the Community Week, we celebrate our community nurses, who give special meaning to the phrase “frontline heroes”. Community nursing is a very broad description of many roles undertaken by nurses outside of the hospital setting. “The work community nurses do is not unlike the work of nurses in
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Staying in touch with loved ones
The COVID-19 pandemic has made spending time with loved ones challenging for everybody, especially those being cared for in hospitals and aged care facilities. John Wakim, Recreation Officer at Bundoora Centre, has created a new program to help families stay connected to their hospitalised loved ones during this difficult time. He initiated the program, ‘Staying