Staff Spotlight
sessment and/or discharge sum- mary. When there was any down time I would work on the audit which involved going through pa- tient cases to elicit positive reasons for admission. My favourite part of being an AIM at Ryde is … the amazing team at Ryde Hospital! I got along with all the staff, ranging from the consult- ants/CMOs to the interns to the nurses. They were all lovely people to work with and they all really made me feel at home from my first shift. Everyone talks to you and gets you involved, making you feel like an important member of the team. My key learnings as an AiM were … improving my procedural skills through the vast number of cannulas I performed. Knowing common ED presentations and what investiga- tions need to be ordered for them. Learning how to perform focussed ED histories and examinations. Writing concise discharge summar- ies which include all pertinent infor- mation. Learning how to perform consults with various medical teams.
The AIM role is … helping the medi- cal staff however we can. Responsi- bilities as an AiM at Ryde involved inserting cannulas, ordering investi- gations, writing ED assessment notes and discharge summaries for the ED consultants/CMO, and occasional- ly doing histories, examinations and consults. We also assisted in per- forming an audit during our down- time whenever the ED was quiet. A day in the life as an AIM looks like … I would arrive and make my- self known to the team. Any mem- bers of the team would then be free to ask me to help them with seeing patients. Often, I would accompany a doctor when they saw a patient and then I would stay back to insert the cannula and obtain bloods while they went off to write the notes and dis- cuss the case with the consultant. If it was very busy, then I would not accompany the doctor and instead perform cannulas and send off bloods to improve efficiency of the team. If there was a consultant or CMO who was familiar with me, I would accompany them and they would get me to take the history, perform an examination, order inves- tigations, and write up the ED as-
Ryde Hospital has been fortunate to have 2 Assistants in Medicine (AIMs) Jai and Joshua, for 2 months. They completed their placements at Ryde on 30 June 2023. We would like to say a big thank you to them for their hard work during their time at Ryde. We interviewed Jai about his experience.
Point in medicine journey: Final year of Medical School at Macquarie Uni- versity.
Nursing Graduates
Congratulations to the 2022 July Grads who have finished. We had a small celebration on 5th July and the staff received their certificate acknowledging comple- tion of their graduate year. Ryde is delighted that all the grad- uates are continuing their nursing careers at Ryde. Hospital.
Ryde also welcomed the following staff this month:
Nagibeh Gholami
Registered Nurse
Kai Tran
Administration Officer
Elaine Salamat
Registered Nurse
Sangita Gajurel
Registered Nurse
Pourakh Dhakal
Administration Officer
Jeff Kim
Registered Nurse
Timothy Hough
Social Worker
Olga Zapral
Enrolled Nurse
Sachina Lingden
Assistant in Nursing
Eleanor Fairbairn
Speech Pathologist
Jack Cheung
Operations Assistant
Bing Li
Registered Nurse
Marina Strelkoff
NUM Critical Care
Olga Zapral
Enrolled Nurse
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