Louise Cook is a Bullwinkel scholar who is passionate about advancing rural nursing leadership opportunities through continuous learning. As a nurse navigator based in Clermont but also servicing Moranbah and Dysart, Louise is committed to building on her leadership skills despite the challenges and complexities of the job “on the fringe of the health service”…. [Read More]

An innovative tool which prioritises high-risk inpatients and streamlines workflows has put the Mackay HHS in the spotlight at Australia’s largest scientific pharmacy conference. Mackay HHS pharmacist Neve Munro presented at the Advanced Pharmacy Australia Medicines Management 2024 conference in Adelaide last month about the development of the Risk Assessment Tool (RAT) which has revolutionised… [Read More]

The Mackay Base Hospital renal unit is celebrating 40 years of life-saving dialysis service. Mackay’s first renal nurse Robyn Nikolsky returned to the hospital this week to be reunited with former colleagues and staff and to help the renal unit celebrate the incredible milestone with morning tea. It was in October 1984 that Robyn began… [Read More]

When growing up in southern India, the expected career pathways for Sujatha Anand were in engineering or medicine. The Obstetrics & Gynaecology (O&G) specialist chose medicine and began a journey which ultimately brought her to Mackay in the heat of a northern summer in 2019. “There was no pressure that I was to become a… [Read More]

Mackay HHS senior library manager Leesa Philip wasn’t surprised to be diagnosed as diabetic 16 years ago. She has a long family history of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. “I’d actually been watching and waiting for it to show up since I was 13,” she said. For the last 18 months, Leesa has been… [Read More]