NSW Health WSLHD Lifeblood 2020-2021

PATIENT CARE, COMFORT AND COMMEMORATION

43 PATIENT EXPERIENCE ROUNDS AT MOUNT DRUITT HOSPITAL Eileen Ward (Enrolled Nurse) 44 PATIENT EXPERIENCE ROUNDS AT WESTMEAD HOSPITAL Preadmissions clinic. Left to right: Jeanne B (Registered Nurse), Geetha de Silva (Enrolled Nurse), Tanya Shuetrim (Admin Officer), Choon Hiang Koway (Registered Nurse), Sirpa Manners (Nurse Unit Manager), Rodney Fletcher (Patient), Gina Skapetis (Registered Midwife). Bottom left: Rodney Fletcher (Patient) L ISTENING TO PATIENTS AND GIVING THEM FLOWERS DURING PATIENT EXPERIENCE WEEK Khris Lacampuingan (Nurse Unit Manager Cardiology) 45 ANZAC DAY COMMEMORATIONS AT AUBURN HOSPITAL Veteran John O’Brien, a patient at Auburn Hospital, did not want anything from stopping him attending the ANZAC Day service 46 E MERGENCY DOCTORS LAUNCH EDUCATION PODCAST IN AN AUSTRALIAN FIRST Left to right: Dr Pramod Chandru (Medical Officer), Dr Shreyas Iyer (Medical Officer), Dr Caroline Tyers (Medical Officer), Dr Kit Rowe (Medical Officer), Dr Samoda Mudalige (Medical Officer) 48 FIRST SKIN TO SKIN CUDDLES AT WESTMEAD HOSPITAL Left to right: Kim Kaddour (Registered Midwife), Baby boy, Yaqing Xue (Mother) 49 REACH PROGRAM LAUNCHES AT AUBURN HOSPITAL Sharon Busuttil (Clerical Services) answers the REACH phone – a system that helps patients, their family and carers escalate their concerns about changes in a patient’s condition 50 HOSPITAL VOLUNTEERS AT MOUNT DRUITT HOSPITAL Dulci Harrison (Treasurer), Janice Graham (Secretary), Jean Hitches (President) CELEBRATING ORTHODOX EASTER AT WESTMEAD HOSPITAL Maternity staff member Gina Dimitric looking forward to celebrations with her grandchildren E MERGENCY DEPARTMENT PATIENT ASSESSMENT PROGRAM RECEIVES $3.6 MILLION GRANT Left to right: Margaret Murphy (Clinical Nurse Consultant), Raewyn Elsegood (Patient’s mother), Timothy Elsegood (Patient), Prof Ramon Shaban (Clinical Chair Infection Control Infectious Diseases) 51 BLACKTOWN HOSPITAL’S NEW INTENSIVE CARE UNIT Dale Pobjie (ICU Patient)

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