2024
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Summer’s bite battle: Snakes vs. Mosquitos
Summer is the best season of the year, they said. Except for the occasional slithering snakes and the abundance of mosquitos! During the hot summer days, snakes are becoming increasingly active and put both humans and pets at risk of snakebites. According to The Australian Snakebite Project, in over 10 years, approximately 1,500 people were bitten
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Welcome back volunteers
It is wonderful to see the smiling faces of our enthusiastic volunteers at Northern Health again after their Christmas and New Year break. They returned to duty last week and are all eager to get back to doing what they love to do – gifting their time to make a difference. “Volunteers are an important
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Vale Norma Boyer
Staff at Unit 2 Broadmeadows Hospital are remembering their dear colleague Norma Boyer, who passed away late last year. Norma began her nursing career with Northern Health during her graduate year, working on the GEM Unit at Broadmeadows Hospital, before she moved to Unit 2 (Rehabilitation Ward). Unit 2 was where Norma fulfilled her duties
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Get to know: Lynne Santamaria
#WeAreNorthern Meet Lynne Santamaria, Nurse Unit Manager, Hospital in the Home (HITH). What is your coffee order? My order is a weak latte, if I have a full strength my heart goes into overdrive. Tell me about your role at Northern Health and what it entails? I am the unit manager of the Hospital in
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Launch of Mental Health Outlier Program
This week the Mental Health Division welcomes Rebecca Beaumont and Anthony Rathbone to the newly launched Mental Health Outlier Program (MHOP). Mental Health consumers in general inpatient beds can pose significant challenges for the multidisciplinary team caring for them. The MHOP nursing role compliments the care provided by other health care professionals in a general
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The ABCDE of skin cancer
Australia has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world, with approximately two in three Australians being diagnosed with skin cancer by the age of 70. Skin cancer can present as any new mole or other skin lesion growing or changing over time. The “ABCDE” signs are a simple way to identify
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Pride March 2024
Pride March is an annual event held in Melbourne as part of the Midsumma Festival, a celebration of LGBTIQA+ culture and arts. This year, the march will be held on Sunday, 4 February. More than 7,000 marchers take to the streets in St Kilda each year to show their support of the LGBTIQA+ community, and over
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Welcome to 2024 Medical Interns
For the first time since COVID 19 intervened, Northern Health had the pleasure of welcoming 61 medical interns, in person, for their orientation – the highest number ever. Eleven new positions have been added to the program: four in General Medicine, one in Plastics Surgery, two in Mental Health, two in Emergency Department, one in