2019 Innovation
Awards
Applications open
The Innovation Awards showcase
and recognise the best new ideas and
initiatives in health care delivery in our
district during the last two years.
Above: Compression therapy demo with Sarah Craven -Jones and ‘acting
patient’ Registered Nurse Angela Hooker.
District Nurses meet in
Papamoa for study day
On a Saturday earlier this month, 22 District Nurses from across
BOPDHB met up in Papamoa for a study day focused on
Venous Leg Ulcers and Compression Therapy.
This was organised by Whakatāne based District Nursing
Clinical Co-ordinator Sarah Craven-Jones and Hospital in the
Home (HITH) Co-ordinator Registered Nurse Paula Davies.
The HITH community nursing service facilitates safe and
responsive discharge and provides IV antibiotic treatment for
patients in their home.
Thanks to Sarah and Paula as well as event sponsor health and
hygiene company, Essity.
If you’ve introduced a new idea or
initiative which is making a positive
difference for our patient outcomes then
we want to hear about it.
1st prize $3000
2nd prize $2000
People’s Choice Award $1000
Applications close: Friday 2nd August
2019 at 5pm
Application form on OnePlace
Contact: [email protected]
Donation brings home comfort to
palliative room at Whakatāne Hospital
A welcomed touch of home comfort has
been added to the palliative care room at
Whakatāne Hospital thanks to a kind donation
from the Devitt family.
The family of nine came from across the North Island, spending
several days in the palliative room in March this year, staying close
to their Dad, Allan, in his final days.
Recently, they returned to the hospital donating a lazy boy chair
to the palliative care room for other families who find themselves
in the same situation, and in recognition of the care and support
they’d received.
Daughter Paula Moir who travelled from outside the Bay says,
“Staff were so supportive and welcoming, providing mattresses
so we could sleep there and stay close to Dad. Nothing was too
much trouble. It was so important to us to have that special time
with him.
“We just wanted to be able give something back to make a
difference for families going through the same situation that we
went through.”
Medical Ward Nurse Manager Viv Robertson says the team has
received wonderful feedback and appreciation from whānau and
Pictured: The Devitt family with Medical Ward Nurse Manager Viv Robertson
(left) and nurses Kerrie Yagdiran, Sam Hennessy and Mike Pye.
families who have used the palliative care room.
“It’s really important to our team, that we can provide palliative
care in this way. In recent times the room has been gifted some
wonderful things to give it a more homely feel and we’re very
grateful.”
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