Keeping In Touch June 2022
Celebrating 1000 open heart surgeries!
Our cardiac team recently celebrated a significant milestone, completing its 1000th open heart surgery case! What a cause for celebration! We are the only private hospital in regional Victoria to offer cardiac surgery and reaching this milestone reflects the hospital’s commitment to offering the Geelong community access to technology and services close to home. Our hospital has long been recognised as a surgical centre of excellence and is dedicated to delivering the safest possible program of the highest quality to its patients and this is a significant milestone in cardiac surgery. Kudos to all the teams who have contributed to achieving this outcome! Our team of highly skilled doctors, nurses and allied health professionals are the back bone of the service and without their dedication and commitment the service would not have flourished.
Men’s Health Week 13-19 June
Men’s Health Week 13-19 June We celebrated Men’s Health Week from Monday 13-Sunday 19 June. The theme this year was Building Healthy Environments for Men and Boys - focusing on creating physically, mentally and emotionally healthy environments in the home, workplace and in social settings. It is also important that we encourage the men in our lives to make use of health services to preventatively manage their health and find out before it’s too late if problems exist. The first point of call is to visit their GP to discuss any issues or concerns they may have. There are also a number of free services aimed and supporting men’s health available: • Headtohealth.gov.au/supporting-yourself/support-for/men • MensLine Australia (online counselling and forum for men): 1300 78 99 78 • Dads in Distress (peer support for separated dads) 1300 853 437 • SANE Australia (people living with a mental illness): 1800 187 263 or chat online at sane. org. Watch this video and share with the men and boys in your life: https://youtu.be/l3RwvTwelFo
‘Healthy Men, Healthy Minds’ photo competition has now closed! The Submission and Voting Period has concluded. A panel of judges will nominate an overall winner and two runners up. The judging will be completed by 6.00pm on 6 July 2022. The winner and runners up will be informed and announced on 7 July 2022. The winner will receive a DJI Mini SE drone (valued at $619) and the two runners up will receive a $50 Myer/Coles vouchers each.
Upcoming Events:
NAIDOC Week 3-10 July
NAIDOC Week
Sunday 3 - Sunday 10 July
Am I OK Day TBC
Wound Awareness Week
Monday 15 - Sunday 21 August
Daffodil Day
Thursday 25 August
Prostate Cancer Awaress Month September
NAIDOC Week is one of the biggest celebrations at our hospital, and this year we have a variety of activities for caregivers to participate in: Didgeridoo performance, indigenous artwork on display, digital screen displays, and more...! Additional information to be shared on Pulse and Caregiver facebook page.
Junior June - Disney dress up day
Our caregivers dressed in their favourite Disney or fairytale character to support paediatric focused education activities this month, and also raise funds for Zoe’s Fight in order to help bring an end to Paediatric Brain Cancer. Your support was much appreciated! We look forward to arranging more activities to bring together caregivers in fun and creative ways!
Kids Socks and Undies Drive
Thank you to everyone for contributing to our Kids Socks and Undies drive for St Thomas Aquinas primary school in Norlane. Tracey was very impressed with the massive effort and has conveyed her thanks to all departments and wards!
Green Group: Send us your suggestions! Do you have an interest in saving the environment? Send us your ideas on recycling, reusing and reducing waste in the hospital. What can we recycle. What can we reduce. What can we reuse. Contact Lisa.Cranham@sjog.org.au to join the Green Group and make a difference!
This month’s new caregivers!
Kiran
Darren
Ellen
Registered Nurse
Instrument Technician
Psychologist
CSSD
Esther
Georgia
Registered Nurse
Physiotherapist
Registered Nurse
Allied Health
Surgery Centre
Jackie
Registered Nurse
Melissa
Lachie
Heath
Tina
Unit Receptionist
Instrument Technician
Patient Services
CSSD
Rizza
Emergency Doctor
Registered Nurse
Emergency Department
Theatre
Sarah
Patient Care Assistant
This month’s new caregivers!
Simran
Patient Care Assistant
Prabas
Solée
Registered Nurse
Administration
Theatre
Sarah E.
Harpreet
Food Service Assistant
Registered Nurse
Hotel Services
Emergency Department
Nicholas
Vanessa
Volunteer Services Coordinator
Registered Nurse
ED Registrar
Bianca
Faisal
Registered Nurse
Diabetes Educator
Emergency Department
Emergency Department
Nursing Administration
Caregiver of the Month - April 2022
Big CONGRATULATIONS to Sarah Williams from Patient Services on receiving the Caregiver of the Month award!
“Sarah has gone out of her way to create a new system for the pharmacy accounts. She has been diligent in making sure this process is trained well in each department. This new system makes it more streamlined and a better experience for our patients. Sarah has displayed our Core Values of Excellence with a better experience for the patient and has shown Compassion with other team members when providing training in the new system.” Congratulations to our worthy nominees: • Shelly Leeman • Annette Barbic 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.
Appointment of Diabetes Educator We are pleased to welcome our new Diabetes Educator, Faisal Sabih. Faisal comes to us with over 27+ years of experience across a broad range of health care services throughout Australia. His application for this role demonstrated his commitment to a career in Diabetes Education, and his ongoing education and qualifications, including Diabetes Education, Public Health / Heath Promotion, Education and Training and currently completing his Masters in Nursing (Diabetes) certainly enhances his extensive experience. Faisal has already commenced in this role and will be onsite on Mondays and Fridays, as well as every second Thursday. Welcome to the Geelong team, Faisal!
Kindness Kart
The Kindness Kart has been out and about our hospital! Our very hard working Hotel Services Team have been going above and beyond and welcomed some well deserved love and attention. They work tirelessly behind the scenes ensuring the highest level of infection control and supporting the day-to-day operations on the wards and hospital. Thanks to the entire Hotel Services team! Your work does not go unnoticed and you are doing a fantastic job! As a small gesture of our appreciation, team members enjoyed items off the Kindness Kart which has been made possible by the kind and generous donation of Kane Constructions.
Appointment of Volunteer Services Coordinator We were delighted this month to have welcomed Solee Robertson to the role of Volunteer Services Coordinator. Solee had been the Volunteer Coordinator for Geelong Mum’s for the past 6 years and brings with her a wealth of experience in working with volunteers from this role and previous roles she held at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. We are sure if you have encountered Solee you will have witnessed her high level of energy and enthusiasm for her role.
MyLearning: Update The benchmark for all caregivers’ mandatory compliance is to be greater than 80%, aiming for 100% at all times. We are currently sitting at below this benchmark in many departments. It is all of our responsibility to maintain our own personal compliance as close to 100% as possible. To maintain this compliance we ask that all caregivers complete the following: • •
Log onto MyLearning and check their compliance status. Complete all outstanding learning modules as soon as possible.
As per the LOD 0002 Mandatory Education Policy, caregivers will: “Complete mandatory education as specified on each caregivers My Learning page. Caregivers are responsible for ensuring they successfully complete mandatory education by the required due dates or within the three month expiry window.” Failure to comply with this Policy by a member of SJGHC does not align with the minimum requirements and our code of conduct. All face to face competency assessments can be booked via the mylearning system, there are many sessions open for bookings for Basic Life Support and Manual Handling. Please contact L&D if you require support or have need assistance in achieving this compliance.
Bupa Health - Caregiver benefits Caregivers are entitled to corporate benefits including discounted Health policies that BUPA are pleased to extend out to all caregivers, and Best Promotion Offers like: • Get a Quote Get $20 Gift Card (flyer attached) • Joining 8 weeks free as a join offer • Refer a friend offer (refer a friend and get a $100 voucher) (flyer attached) Hard copies of these flyers are available in the staff dining room.
Back pats Frances said: 5 stars
Thank you to Professor Richard Grills and the Day Care staff at St John of God Geelong. My husband could not have been better cared for. It is a wonderful hospital. Many thanks!
What our patients had to say about us this week... Day Surgery Patient feedback
NPS 3 North
Patient feedback
The nurses were exceptional! So friendly and calming. The facilities were immaculate and all looked quite modern. I know I was only in for a very simple day stay procedure but the staff were calm and appeared un-rushed. I wish I could remember their names because both my admission nurse and they nurses that looked after me prior to my procedure and post procedure were exceptional!!
Time taken to care for individual needs. Wonderful thoughtful staff. Greatly appreciated.
3 East
2 South
Patient feedback
The nursing staff were amazing and looked after me so well.
Patient feedback Lovely caring and thoughtful staff. Nothing was too much trouble. Excellent meals beautifully presented. Could not fault anything about my treatment or care. Would not hesitate to be admitted again should the need arise.
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