{"id":3465,"date":"2017-10-06T04:19:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T04:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/uncategorized\/nursing-a-family-affair"},"modified":"2017-12-01T03:30:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T03:30:25","slug":"nursing-a-family-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/news\/nursing-a-family-affair","title":{"rendered":"Nursing a family affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1>Nursing a family affair<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_1149\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1149\" class=\"wp-image-1149 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/nursing-family-affair-1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Mother and daughter nursing duo Jo and Pirie Crompton are among more than 70 nurse graduates who started their careers at The Prince Charles Hospital in the last year. \" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mother and daughter nursing duo Jo and Pirie Crompton are among more than 70 nurse graduates who started their careers at The Prince Charles Hospital in the last year.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An opportunity to work at one of Brisbane\u2019s top hospitals is a dream come true for mother and daughter nursing duo Jo and Pirie Crompton.<\/p>\n<p>Both women joined the team at The Prince Charles Hospital as graduate nurses, with Jo, a mature age student, graduating a year after her daughter.<\/p>\n<p>More than 70 nurse graduates have the opportunity to start their nursing career at TPCH every year, with placements always in demand.<\/p>\n<p>Pirie said being offered a place at Charlies, which offers general and specialised services, gave her a wide range of career prospects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spent my graduate year in the Infectious Diseases Ward and for my second year I\u2019ve been offered a permanent position there,\u201d Pirie said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see a variety of patients so I\u2019m definitely learning a lot and I feel very well supported. Everyone\u2019s very helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jo spent her graduate year in the rehabilitation and acute stroke unit and is now undertaking a 12 month Intensive Care Unit transition course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very challenging, but there is a really supportive culture,\u201d Jo said.<\/p>\n<p>TPCH Nurse Manager Workforce-Recruitment Susan Prince said TPCH offered a wide range of nursing specialties not only for graduates but also for experienced nurses who wanted to further develop their skills in areas such as cardiac and thoracic medicine or surgery, children\u2019s inpatient and outpatient services, emergency care, general medical and surgical services, mental health, ICU and perioperative and procedural environments.<\/p>\n<p>Recruitment for the 2018 intake of graduate nurses is already underway.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An opportunity to work at one of Brisbane\u2019s top hospitals is a dream come true for mother and daughter nursing duo Jo and Pirie Crompton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}