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ICU nurse Laura Hynes publishes research 10 March 2022 SCGH ICU Registered Nurse Laura Hynes has had her research work shared in the Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing. The article, 'Intensive care nurses’ perceptions on barriers impeding the provision of end of life care in the intensive care setting: a quantitative analysis', was recently published as a joint research piece. The objective was to investigate the specific barriers and contextual characteristics that nurses experience within the Intensive Care Unit environment. Laura, who was the University of Notre Dame's 2019 Alumna of the Year, interviewed Perth ICU nurses with results highlighting some of the key obstacles nurses faced when trying to offer End Of Life Care (EOLC). This included having family and friends who continually call the nurse for updates rather than the designated contact person, families not accepting poor patient prognosis, and physicians differing in ... -
SCGH High Risk Foot Service (HRFS) achieves accreditation as a Centre of Excellence 26 February 2022 The SCGH High Risk Foot Service (HRFS) is a multidisciplinary service which meets the needs of patients with complex diabetes related foot complications. It brings together the specialties of Vascular, Infectious Diseases, Endocrinology, Podiatry and Nursing (including Silver Chain Liaison Nurse) and provides care to patients with limb threatening diabetic foot ulcers and infections, and other complex foot disorders such as Charcot neuroarthropathy. Established in May 2019, the service offers an outpatient multidisciplinary clinic (the MDFU) located in the SCGH Podiatry department, and an inpatient diabetic foot unit (SCGH), and has links to the amputee rehabilitation service (OPH) and Hospital in the Home (Homelink) Service which provides care to patients in their own homes. After three years of operation, the SCGH High Risk Foot Service now helps around 60 outpatients each month and pe... -
Introduction of Purple CAT 24 February 2022 There’s a new CAT bus running between Elizabeth Quay Bus Station and UWA South, via QEII. The purple CAT bus starts this Sunday, 27 February. This new service will be invaluable for patients, visitors and staff with stops along Monash Avenue and Hampden Road. Visit the TransPerth website (external site) for more details about the service. Download the new CAT timetable (PDF) -
Farewell and thanks for Cesarita Marzo 16 February 2022 The final days of a dedicated career will be celebrated on 23 February for Cesarita ‘Ces’ Marzo, the Head of Department, Nutrition and Dietetics at SCGOPHCG. After some 18 years at the helm of the department and more than 45 years in the profession, Ces is hanging up her uniform for the last time but not before her colleagues acknowledge her incredible contribution. Prior to joining SCGH in October 2003, Ces established dietetic services at the Mount Hospital and Joondalup Health Service as well as earlier in Queensland. She was a Director for the Dietitian Association of Australia and provided leadership and advocacy for the specified callings work value case for dietetic industry. In her role here at SCGH, Ces demonstrated leadership across several platforms, all for the common good of the department, for dietetics and for the hospital. Ces advocated for and established the... -
Water Safety at Charlies 14 February 2022 We acknowledge that the report in the media (external site) today focusing on the detection of Legionella in the water system at SCGH (12 February 2022) has caused distress and concern among our staff, patients and visitors. We remain committed to being open and transparent with our patients and their families and the cases referred to in today’s media article were no exception to this commitment. Legionella is a bacterium that lives in water. The finding of Legionella in a water system is not unusual - in fact your household water pipework is likely to contain the same bacteria, especially if not regularly flushed. SCGH has had a robust water testing regime in place for many years, and when there is a detection we immediately remediate it, including replacing fixtures and fittings and retesting until there is a negative result. Legionella is killed by chlorine just like other bac...
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12/04/2021