Team up and go for GOLD
By Karyn Borman, Smokefree Coordinator.
In this issue we continue to track our top
people and teams referring patients for quit
smoking support.
June’s top teams
Tauranga ED – GOLD (34 referrals)
Whakatāne ED – SILVER (9 referrals)
Tauranga Maternity – SILVER (6 referrals)
Assessment Planning Unit – BRONZE (5 referrals)
Respiratory Nurses - BRONZE (4 Referrals)
Surgical Admissions Unit – SILVER (3 referrals)
July’s top teams
Tauranga ED – GOLD (10 referrals)
Respiratory Nurses SILVER (9 Referrals)
Whakatāne ED – SILVER (8 referrals)
Assessment Planning Unit – BRONZE (5 referrals)
Child & PIMHS Team – BRONZE (4 referrals)
CCU/ICU – BRONZE (3 referrals)
Medical Day Stay - BRONZE (3 referrals)
Tauranga Maternity - BRONZE (3 referrals)
Top referrers for the month were Tauranga Hospital Respiratory
Nurse Jenny Dobson, and Tauranga Hospital ED Clinical Nurse
Specialist Jill Barron.
Top referrers for the month were Tauranga Hospital ED Nurse
Practitioner Brett Turnwald and Registered Nurse Belinda Gasteen.
Tauranga Hospital’s famous feline is no stray
You can pat him, or call him a fat cat, but don’t
shut him in a cage and send him down to the
RSPCA because ‘Steps’ is not homeless.
‘Steps’ is the much loved pet of the Pratt family. The family's
property is on the outskirts of Tauranga Hospital’s Clarke street
carpark.
Most days Tauranga Hospital staff will see Steps lazing about on
the Clarke Street carpark steps. Such a familiar sight, his own-
ers named him Steps. It’s fair to say, he’s got ‘love thy neighbour’
down pat.
Insert photo of Steps being cuddled by his family.
Steps also has the odd ride up and down in the Clarke Street lift –
heights don’t bother him, if people are around and there's a pat to
be had, he’s there.
But what he’s not so keen on (or his owner certainly isn’t) is being
catnapped by someone who's mistaken him for a stray and taken
to the RSPCA.
Despite wearing collars with his home number visible, this has
happened to Steps on several occasions in recent times.
So a message from Steps (and his family) pats and the odd treat
left on a saucer are fine. Trips to the RSPCA are not! When the
sun goes down you will find Steps, snuggled up at home.
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