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IN NEWS: Health

Emergency essentials for nurses

Equipping local emergency nurses with a critical nursing pack is at the core of this year's end-of-financial year campaign.

IN NEWS: Health

Emergency essentials for nurses

Equipping local emergency nurses with a critical nursing pack is at the core of this year's end-of-financial year campaign.

21 May 2020

This year we have been extremely fortunate to have been able to collaborate with Leigh Elton, a highly experienced Australian-trained Emergency Department nurse. Leigh has been volunteering in the Vila Central Hospital ED over the past 3 months, where she has been putting her expertise to fantastic use by up-skilling local emergency nursing staff and establishing a triaging system; an essential death-prevention tool used in Australian EDs to ensure patients are seen in the correct order of sickness. As part of this collaboration between the Vila Central Hospital ED and MJF, we are planning to equip every local emergency nurse with a critical Nursing Pack, which includes fundamental equipment used to measure patients ‘vital signs’, indicators of how likely a patient is to die imminently. These packs have never before existed in the VCH ED and with the outstanding support of Leigh, local emergency nursing staff will be trained in their use, leading to a sophisticated triaging system that prevents unnecessary deaths! We will be stocking the pack with brand new equipment. Each pack consists of a stethoscope for assessing heart and lungs, thermometer for measuring temperature, pupil torch for assessing pupils, pulse oximeter for assessing lung oxygenation and a carry pouch. These packs help streamline the care of deteriorating patients and allow for timely life-saving treatment. Each pack costs $180. Please help MJF equip the VCH ED to take the hospital to the next level.

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