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Keeping In Touch 27 May 2022

Welcome to another edition of Keeping in Touch. It’s hard to believe we are moving into the start of another month next week. The pandemic now coupled with the flu continues to plague us all at home and at work and we acknowledge that from time to time this has meant staffing has been a challenge with high levels of sick leave. I would like to extend my heart felt gratitude to all caregivers for your resilience and for wonderful care and support you provide to each other and our patients. Six members of our National Board visited our hospital on Wednesday and they were very affirming of your collective dedication and hard work during these challenging times. They had the opportunity to meet with a small group of caregivers for morning tea and expressed this gratitude to them in person. While they were here we were able to showcase our recently redeveloped CSSD which they were most impressed with, take them to the shelled space on level 3 that we will be fitting out in the next couple of months and provide them with some insight into some of the challenges we have faced since they last visited. A quick reminder that our Respiratory Protection Program is ongoing and available to all caregivers. Alex who is now our hospital fit tester is on site for the next 5 weeks so please take the opportunity to book in for your annual fit test if due. Wishing you a lovely weekend.

Upcoming Events: National Reconciliation Week Friday 27 May - Friday 3 June

National Blood Donor Week Monday 13 - Sunday 19 June

Men’s Health Week

Monday 13 - Sunday 19 June

NAIDOC Week

Sunday 3 - Sunday 10 July

Am I OK Day TBC

Wound Awareness Week TBC

Keeping In Touch is a newsletter for you. We would like to invite all caregivers to submit ideas, stories, photos and feedback to share. We know you’re all doing fabulous work - tell us about it! It’s easy! Just drop an email to: Tanjeela.chowdhury@sjog.org.au GLMarketing@sjog.org.au

National Volunteer Week 16-22 May Every year we look forward to celebrating our volunteers, and National Volunteer Week gave us the opportunity to thank all the volunteers who are such a pivotal part of St John of God Geelong Hospital in creating a compassionate environment for our patients, their families and making such a difference to their hospital experience. Our wonderful team of volunteers joined us for afternoon tea where many received their length of services awards and were recognised for their contribution to the hospital. Thank you for all that you do. We hope caregivers found small but meaningful ways to let volunteers working in their departments/areas know how much they mean to them!

National Volunteer Week 16-22 May

Kids Socks and Undies Drive .

KIDS SOCKS & UND IES DR I VE ! Supporting children at St Thomas Aquinas Primary School, Norlane Thank you so much for your support and generosity, Mission Integration Committee

Boxes will be collected on Tuesday 7 June

We invite you to contribute to our Kids Socks and Undies drive for St Thomas Aquinas primary school in Norlane. The school has reached out to us, explaining it is in a low socio economic area and the issues associated with this affect their school community. Donations of new, boys and girls underwear and socks would very much support their children. Boxes will be distributed to your area this week and collected on Tuesday 7th June. If your department or ward has not received a boxe, please reach out to Mara McDonald. Kindly share this with your team members and please support this drive!

This month’s new caregivers!

Ash

Uday

Shae

Patient Care Assistant

Instrument Technician

Patient Care Assistant

CSSD

Geph

Emily

Registered Nurse

Endorsed Enrolled Nurse

Registered Nurse

3 North

2 South

Sara

Jenny

Melisa

Women and Newborn Services Manager - 3 West

Madi

Registered Nurse Emergency Department

Katie

Unit Receptionist

Critical Care Registered Nurse

Patient Services

Emergency Department

Monika

Patient Care Assistant

Natalie

Associate Nurse Unit Manager 3 West

This month’s new caregivers!

Sophie

Grace

Simone

Registered Nurse

Nurse Unit Manager

Day Stay Unit

Theatre

Anaesthetic and Recovery Theatre

Ash

Rashmi

Javed

Environmental Services Assistant

Critical Care Registered Nurse

Environmental Services Assistant

Environmental Services

ICU

Environmental Services

Associate Nurse Unit Manager

Felicity

Nicholas

Rachel

Enrolled Nurse

Unit Receptionist

Surgery Centre

Patient Services

National Reconciliation Week

The end of May marks the start of National Reconciliation Week (27 May - 3 June 2022), which is a reminder of the importance of St John of God Health Care creating genuine and strong partnerships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities towards Reconciliation. We hope some of you were able to participate in the NRW Breakfast event. Be sure to view and enjoy the beautiful display our Pastoral Sercives team have put up in the main hospital foyer. Our Reconciliation for Action Committee members attended the Reconciliation in the Park event in Johnstone Park - and what a wonderful day to enjoy music, dancing, BBQ and meeting other members of the community who are so passionate about Reconciliation.

Reconciliation for Action initiative

The Reconciliation for Action Committee are pleased to announce NITV (National Indigenous Television) is now part of the hospital television video channels. NITV broadcasts programmes produced and presented largely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Patients can tune in to Channel 34 to learn more about the history of and issues affecting the country’s First Nations peoples.

Caregiver of the Month - March 2022

Big CONGRATULATIONS to Colin Hay from Theatre on receiving the Caregiver of the Month award!

“Colin has his office in our CSSD corridor and is forever supporting our caregivers. He calls on his day off to support our loans team and comes in on weekends to ensure surgeries are perfect for the week ahead, and that is just for our team, before he even starts in Theatre 6 with his own work. He never gives up, puts everyone else ahead of himself and lends a ear to us all and never judges.” Congratulations to our worthy nominees: • Peter Gwynn • Luci Fennell • Tracey Christian If one of your team members is going the extra mile - put your nomination in by the end of the month to GLExecAdmin@sjog.org.au. The nomination form can be found on CORA.

Green Group: Looking for eco champions! Are you passionate about Sustainability and leading the way for a Greener future? Contact Lisa.cranham@sjog.org.au Group and make a difference!

to join the Green

New Green Group badges available for members.

Fraud: Know the risks

What is fraud? Fraud is defined by Australian Standard AS8001-2008 as “dishonest activity causing actual or potential financial loss to any person or entity including theft of money or other property.” Knowing the risk factors can help prevent fraud and its wide-ranging effects and consequences. Fraud can take place in many different forms or scenarios and fraud-related activities in the health care sector are often reported in the media. To ensure St John of God Health Care is appropriately managing its risk of fraud or corruption, we are seeking input via the below survey to help us: • Gain insight into areas of potential risk; • Identify where we may need to strengthen our protection from fraud or corruption across the organisation. The survey should take 1-2 minutes and to thank you for your participation, 3x $50 gift vouchers will be awarded to randomly selected survey participants. Please access the survey via the link below. https://sjogmurdoch.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/

Scholarships and Fellowships We recently announced four new initiatives to support our nurses and midwives, and those looking to work with us, to advance their careers. These initiatives, which include two brand new scholarships, will help us train more midwives and nurses which we all know are in high demand. Click HERE to read more.

We are supporting our allied health clinicians, such as physios, occupational therapists, and speech therapists, to advance their careers and complete research to better understand the effect their care has on our patients. Click HERE to find out more about our new Fellowship.

Monthly Nursing Forum In the spirit of getting back to normality (COVID normal), we will be holding monthly face-to-face Nursing Forums to provide a platform for our nurses to: 

Share current/common challenges and provide actions/solutions where possible

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Updates on operational changes at local/state/Group level

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Share/celebrate achievements and good news stories

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Meet nurses from other areas

When: Thursday 2 June 2022 Time:

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Venue:

Education Room, L1

Looking forward to seeing you there  Vanessa Tran (Director of Nursing) and the Senior Nursing Team

Back pats

Laura said: 5 stars

What wonderful service I received for my 11 month old Mason! From night shift to day shift, we were there for a long 12 hours however we were treated so wonderfully by all staff. Nothing was too hard, everything was explained, some jokes and banter to pass the time. No one pushed us to head home earlier, they ensured all bases were covered. I would love them to know they are appreciated and I am very grateful. Special thanks to Dr Rod, nurses Liz and Chelsea!

What our patients had to say about us this week... 2 South

Patient feedback Extremely happy with the care l received, all staff courteous, and willing to help where possible. Sally, Kiley, George, and Catherine on the ward were very caring and could not do enough to make me comfortable.

3 East

NPS CCU

Patient feedback

The cardiology team were great. Nurses Amy, Kendall and Robin who looked after me on the ward were great. Thanks.

3 North

Patient feedback

Pleasant staff. Efficient. Competent. Felt completely safe and looked after. Diagnostic proceedures were good keeping me informed. Extremely grateful and thankful for excellent care. Well done.

Outstanding care. From the doctors, nurses, volunteers, chef, cleaners, carers, pharmacist absolute brilliant service! I was fully informed about all my treatment and possible side effects. The ultimate feeling I had was my well-being was paramount.

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