thinking of all the northern Queensland nurses

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Specializes in Surgical, quality,management.

I have just been woken up in Melbourne by a phone call from my father in Ireland in a panic checking to see if Yarsi was affecting me! Bless him :redbeathe

Hoping all of you guys in Northern and Far North Queensland are safe. I know that you may be without communications and power but you are in our thoughts and prayers xx :heartbeat:heartbeat

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Yes, same here from relative in England....

Great work girls and guys in Queensland heard lots of hero stories, nurses getting 'somehow' to work and staying there until relief can come. and those at home with families.......everybody's thoughts are with you...come floods or devastating cyclones...

Tried to keep up with everything through last night on twitter....

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Specializes in Surgical, quality,management.

Bugger that! After all my mocking of my father I got stuck going home last night for 2 hours. Trying to get from the CBD (RMH) to the SE suburbs! Every road was flooded!

O well at least we were better off than the Alfred! I hear the ground floor was flooded and that they had to close theatres??

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Specializes in Med/Surg, DSU, Ortho, Onc, Psych.

My thoughts are with everyone in North QLD. Even though you are not on the news at much, you are not forgotten. Great work is being done by everyone up there, not just nurses, but all the volunteers, army, etc. Here's hoping poor QLD'ers will not be hit by anything else.

Saying prayers for you all.

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K+MgSO4 - apparently they had to do surgery in the trauma centre of ED because all the theatres had to be shut down. There was an awful lot of water coming out of the sky!

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Specializes in Surgical, quality,management.

True but its nuts that hospitals are not waterproof! Our 9th floor had plenty of leaks but my brand new ward was spared! We have only just opened up a new ward on the 9th floor.

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Does the old, 'friendly war' between the Alfred and the Melbourne still continue....was going when I worked at the Melbourne 20 years ago...it use to be what percentage nurses had joined the union at one stage it was 95% Melbourne and 93% Alfred, I remember the figures well after all these years, then it was how many beds, open I think the Melbourne had 15 beds more at one....then how many presentations and emergency bays one had against the other...St vinies did not seem to be involved and Monash had not opened as yet...arrhh the good old days....parking was also contested, but always bad at both places...there were no multi story then......showing my age, another....argghh

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Specializes in Surgical, quality,management.

O yes it is! Because we are the 2 Victorian trauma centres it often about how frequently the other goes on bypass leaving us in the $&!%. :)

Not sure about beds, I'm sure it is still an issue. And convincing students that we are obviously better than the Alfred!

On the cool factors I have to concede to the Alfred and their swanky ICU but our ED kicks butt (despite that when it opened last year we discovered it was not water proof!)

I think we win in the crazy ranks as well with John Cade Psych unit.

I'm a RMH girl!

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After working at RMH 79-82 and learning soo much, I must admit I am RMH too having never visiting the Alfred, but have had occasion to visit and go there for clinical supervision and I was very impressed by the nursing care there, 'regular' 1/2 hr checks written up on a whiteboard' good communication skills with their patients and when I went for clinical placement they were all great, consultants down to the new grads...I have not been to RMH for years. As for environment....the Alfred ward blocks remind me of older than orginal RMH which I think it is..new part Alfred centre is ok. The helipad over commercial road though, looks mighty impressive.

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