Outstanding achievement A/Prof Naomi Hammond 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Delighted to see that our Critical Care Program Head, A/Prof Naomi Hammond named in The @Australian’s 2024 Research magazine as the nation’s leading researcher in the field of critical care. Congratulations Naomi on this fantastic recognition. Read more: bit.ly/3shf5Vh

It is an honour to receive this recognition, which represents and acknowledges the invaluable mentorship and contributions of my crit care colleagues. To be a nurse but recognised in a medically dominant field is a testament to the collaborative nature of ANZ crit care research!

Some very pertinent discussions raised in this excellent article - What helps or hinders nurses to lead funded research projects? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

In the latest episode of the #LancetVoice, Dr @ForbesMcGain and Dr Cristina Richie join Lancet editors Chloe Wilson and John Francis Carson to discuss the whys, the hows, and the ethics of decarbonising global healthcare. 🔊hubs.li/Q028jlct0 #Lancet200

Nursing research in Australia is world leading but this is not reflected in funding priorities Council Deans Nursing and Midwifery Australia & NZ NHMRC ANMCTN Marion Eckert Lisa Whitehead ANMF - Australian Nursing Midwifery Federation @acn_tweet theaustralian.com.au/special-report…

Daniel Craig as Australian cities/towns 🧵 Gold Coast

Congratulations to TEAM ACTA Australian Clinical Trial of the Year award!! ANZICS Clinical Trials Group anzicrc #ACTA2023 with our gratitude to the patients who participated and the site staff across 6 countries for their hard work.

I present “It’s not called a Water’s Circuit Actually” - Tales from the theatre corridor ❤️🧵 1. Trauma Theatre is empty! Turns out no one wants to come in for an operation before Christmas. Trauma Anaesthetist decides winding up Orthopod is the best use of their time

I love this story. Once a nurse, always a nurse. After losing her husband and surviving cancer, Neysa King came out of retirement and went back to uni abc.net.au/news/2024-03-0… via ABC Australia

Hmmmm… packing for conference. What to wear, what to wear 🤔

The fabulous Ruth Endacott 💙 has joined us #downunder at ANZICS Clinical Trials Group #IRCIG research coordinator workshop. Sharing the responsibility of patient advocacy in delivering research is everyone’s role in critical care.

Hard agree with A/Prof Caroline Marshall: "To me … any sort of nosocomial infection is a disaster," “Hundreds of patients died after catching COVID in Victorian hospitals, new data shows” by Hayley Gleeson abc.net.au/news/2024-05-0…

In my backyard at 9:28pm #Melbourne #AuroraAustralis Visible with the naked eye. Just stunning.

At our annual Victorian Affiliation of Research Nurses #VARN dinner. Can you add to this definition of #ResearchNurse ??

"By the end of March there were 30,471 influenza cases – and 76 deaths – for the first three months of 2024. In the first three months of 2024, there were 95,861 cases of Covid-19 in Australia – and 1062 deaths." thenewdaily.com.au/life/2024/05/2…

Presented at #CCR24: In a randomized trial involving patients undergoing invasive ventilation, pantoprazole decreased the risk of upper gastrointestinal bleeding as compared with placebo but did not affect mortality. Read the full REVISE trial results: nej.md/3KD01Xp

Love this trial. Do you know how happy this will make ICU nurses? No more chasing the >4.5mEq/L target post cardiac surgery. Threshold of >3.6mEq/L is ok for patients, more cost effective and makes nurses happy. Win! Win! Win!