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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE MIDWIFE Thank you to all our midwives for the wonderful work you do at Ryde Hospital and across the Northern Sydney Local Health District #IDM2017
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ALL CLEAN Doctors and nurses at Ryde Hospital are making sure their hands are clean with hand hygiene compliance rates well over 85 per cent. Specially trained nursing staff observed the hand cleaning behaviour of our staff members who entered the patient zone and found that at Ryde we are doing way better than the current national benchmark of 75 per cent. Within the hospital our surgical and orthopaedic Ward 3 (staff pictured) had the best results with doctors’ hand hygiene compliance at 93 per cent and the nursing staff compliance at 91 per cent. This is a great result, especially in the lead-up to World Hand Hygiene Day on May 5.
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WARD 2 OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Our new and shiny Ward 2 is now open and receiving patients. One of the first was Mrs Joan Azzopardi, seen here with Howard Davis, NUM and Samantha Chan, clinical nurse educator.
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THE FUN IS ABOUT TO BEGIN Go4Fun keeps your kids active and turns exercise into enjoyable games. It’s a free ten week healthy lifestyle program for kids aged 7-13 who are above average weight. Sessions run once a week for two hours after school, during school term. The new classes are about to start on Monday, 24 April, at Ryde Aquatic Leisure Centre . Check out www.go4fun.com.au for more information.
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THANKS TO OUR DONORS: Our wonderful supporters at Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club and Epping Lions Club do a tremendous job fundraising for our hospital. These much-appreciated and enthusiastic donors recently had a tour of the operating suite with nurse manager Karen Jones. If your group would like to follow their lead and help support our hospital, please feel free to get in touch! Contact the Kolling Foundation – our fundraising arm – on foundation@kolling.org.au
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RYDE RECEIVES SOME EASTER TREATS: The staff at Ryde Hospital received some Humpty Dumpty eggs from one of the North Shore Mums Smiles2U team to handout over the Easter long weekend. A visit to the ED is never fun but this donation means at least patients attending the ED over Easter won’t have to miss out on the traditional chocolate egg. No doubt the special Easter delivery will be appreciated by all ED patients and visitors, especially the juniors. Thank you Smiles2u for bringing Easter cheer to our hospital.
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP IMPROVE LOCAL HEALTH SERVICES? We are looking for people willing to partner with us to further improve the design, planning and delivery of the services we provide. There are many ways you can become involved. You could join one of the Community Participation Committees and there are also opportunities to participate in a quality improvement project, or assist us in developing patient information resources. If you have an interest in a particular service or area of health care, we will do our best to cater for your preferences. While this would be a volunteer role, training, mentoring and support will be provided and we will reimburse you for any costs associated with carrying out the role including transport to and from meetings. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, young people or people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Closing date for applications is Friday, 28 April 2017. For more information: If you are interested in being involved, please contact Rachel Bienenstock, A/Community Engagement Facilitator on telephone (02) 9462 9487 or email Rachel.Bienenstock@health.nsw.gov.au
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Our mental health team at the ‘Check-up from your neck-up’ stall at the Sydney Royal Easter Show are doing a fantastic job. Tom Sacre from 7 News Sydney talked to our staff in his report about award winning rats and mental health at the Sydney Royal Easter Show and said that “one of the biggest issues in NSW is self-reporting mental health issues. It might only be something small but the best thing to do is open up and talk about it.”
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People attending this year’s Easter Show will have a chance to get a ‘check-up from the neck-up’ from Hospital mental health staff who will be offering free mental wellbeing checks. Participants will undertake a short mental wellbeing survey and have the opportunity to discuss their results with a qualified professional. well done team!
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THANK YOU GBS ASSOCIATION: Thanks to the Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) Association, Ryde hospital is now the proud owner of a FEES (Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing) machine The staff at Graythwaite held a morning tea to thank the GBS Association complete with cake and balloons Their generous $15,000 donation means that the speech pathology team at Graythwaite can more easily assess a patient's ability to swallow and make a treatment plan.
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We all know of someone who has been injured as a result of a fall. It might even have been you! For many people the resulting injury is so significant it requires a visit to hospital. Suddenly, from that one ‘little accident’ the health consequences can become ‘big’. At NSLHD we take falls, and preventing them very seriously. That’s why yesterday Ryde Hospital marked ‘April Falls Day’ by sharing information with staff, patients and visitors to the hospital on simple strategies to prevent falls.
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WARD 2 HANDOVER: Yesterday we had the hand over of the new Ward 2 with Capital Works and key members of the hospital. It's complete and just waiting on those final finishing touches before it receives its first patient in a few weeks time. We were excited to get a tour with Howard (the Nursing Unit Manager), Brian and Matthew who pointed out all the little details that make the new ward so special. We're looking forward to the official opening later this year.
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