The Metro South Public Health Unit has confirmed that an orphaned baby bat recovered from Lakewood Avenue Park in Parkinson has tested positive for Australian Bat Lyssavirus (ABLV).
A new topical medication could help prevent organ transplant recipients like Matty Hempstalk from growing skin cancers resulting from the administration of common anti-rejection drugs.
Nurse Navigator Dementia & Delirium Kelli Flowers has received PA Hospital’s Publication of the Year Award for her article in academic journal JBI Database System Rev Implement Rep that focuses on improving nursing assessment and management of incontinence.
PA Hospital Emergency Department Clinical Research Officer, CJ Cabilan, has been awarded a $150,000 Queensland Advancing Research Fellowship to support her PhD project on Occupational Violence (OV).
In a year that has tested healthcare professionals across the globe, PA Hospital’s Executive Director Nursing Services Veronica Casey AM has received the Association of Queensland Nursing & Midwifery Leaders (AQNML) Outstanding Achievement in Nursing and Midwifery Award.
PA Hospital is one of only seven Australian hospitals to receive an Australian Stroke Coalition Quality Stroke Service Excellence Award this year for achieving nine best-practice stroke treatment and care benchmarks.
Surgical Care Unit (SCU) staff have put their hands together to create a new Indigenous artwork that will be displayed in the Unit reception area and contribute to the hospital's inclusion strategy.
From boarding a freighter James Bond style to mobilising a 13,000 strong workforce to manage and detect COVID-19 suspect cases, Nurse Manager Division of Rehabilitation at PA Hospital Rob Moloney has seen and done it all in 2020.