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Celebrating our nurses: Tamara Kos 14 August 2020 International Year of the Nurse & Midwife celebrates the invaluable contribution that nurses and midwifes make to global healthcare. At CAHS, we're profiling the diversity of roles and people that make up our nursing services. Meet Tamara Kos. Tamara is a Clinical Nurse Specialist at Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service(CAMHS) and one of our Emergency Telehealth Service(ETS) team members. Tell us about your background and how you came to nursing. Don’t laugh but I got into nursing because of the TV show MASH. I used to watch it after school and loved the idea of working with staff who really cared about helping people and having a laugh along the way too. I graduated in 2004 from Curtin University and completed my graduate nursing program at Fremantle Hospital. I have worked in adult general medical, surgical, psychiatry, nursing education and in school health. Why wer... -
Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre 14 August 2020 WA Health Minister Hon Roger Cook MLA officially launched the Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre this week - a powerhouse partnership between Telethon Kids Institute, Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation and Perth Children’s Hospital. Though the respiratory work of research and clinical teams has been taking place across the Institute and hospital for many years, the Centre unites all respiratory-focused projects to drive a new research agenda for childhood lung health. The Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre is focused on a life-long approach to respiratory health. Identification and intervention in early life will prevent life-long problems and lung damage and this approach underpins all of the research taking place. The unique name for the Centre was developed in consultation with the Telethon Kids’ Kulunga team and Aboriginal elders, acknowledging the Noongar lan... -
WA set to welcome first children's hospice 07 August 2020 Premier Mark McGowan today unveiled plans for WA’s first children’s hospice to provide care and support for children with life-limiting conditions and their families. With an estimated 2,000 children in WA living with a life-limiting illness, the hospice will support children and their families throughout all stages of their journey – from early diagnosis, during the continuum of their condition, through to end of life with support for families in bereavement. In line with Sustainable Health Review recommendation 9 'achieve respectful and appropriate end of life care and choices', the hospice will be delivered in partnership with Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation (PCHF) and Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS). The hospice will provide specialist respite and palliative care for children aged up to 18 years throughout WA. Children and young people will re... -
Introducing the Emergency Telehealth Service 13 July 2020 A new Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS) Emergency Telehealth Service (ETS) launched today will provide urgent support to children and young people experiencing a mental health crisis as an alternative to attending a metropolitan hospital emergency department for mental health assessment. Run by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), the Emergency Telehealth Service (ETS) will provide support for young people, families and carers experiencing an urgent mental health crisis. This includes mental health advice, crisis management, assessment and referral to the most appropriate service depending on need. With the support of specialist clinicians, it will also provide telephone consultation, advice and support to other professionals in metropolitan emergency departments and community settings including GPs, non-government mental health services and school professio... -
Refugee Week – Celebrating the Year of Welcome 15 June 2020 International Year of the Nurse and Midwife celebrates the invaluable contribution that nurses and midwifes make to global healthcare. At CAHS, we're profiling the diversity of roles and people that make up our nursing services. Meet Nimo Hussein. Nimo is one of our dedicated volunteers at Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH) who has ambitions of becoming a nurse one day. Tell us about your background I was born in Kenya and my family background is Somali. We moved to Kenya as refuges for a better lifestyle, but it wasn’t any better, so in 2005 we migrated to NSW. This provided as with a better lifestyle, access to health services and education. It was a dream come true! In 2009 we moved to Perth as it has a larger Somalia community. What inspired you to consider nursing? My country lacked in healthcare services, basic medications and treatments. This motivated me to become a n...
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22/06/2021