Guest Speaker - PP Penny Paxman
To highlight Polio Week, PP Penny spoke of the Polio Eradication Program in India. Penny was planning to travel to India to work as a volunteer, assisting with the distribution of vaccine with the program, but had to cancel due to family reasons. Penny had a short video highlighting the volunteer support work.Currently there are 20 wild cases of polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
We will have our End Polio BBQ tomorrow and looking forward to the support of Yea HS students to assist.
3 minute speaker — Chris Kellett.
Chris gave us an insight into her nursing career, where her first job after her honeymoon was in the ICU ward at Box Hill, which led on to a 56 year career in ICU nursing. After a 2 year break to work as a midwife, Chris returned to IC nursing and in 1986 undertook further studies in IC at the Alfred Hospital, where she continued her nursing, working in new pioneering procedures with burns, neurology, respiratory, renal, cardiac, assisting with the first heart transplant operation, ECMO life support, brain pressure monitoring and research. In 1988 Chris was appointed charge nurse of the ICU at the Alfred and in 1991 was appointed an educator in IC.
A truly wonderful career Chris!
Chris gave us an insight into her nursing career, where her first job after her honeymoon was in the ICU ward at Box Hill, which led on to a 56 year career in ICU nursing. After a 2 year break to work as a midwife, Chris returned to IC nursing and in 1986 undertook further studies in IC at the Alfred Hospital, where she continued her nursing, working in new pioneering procedures with burns, neurology, respiratory, renal, cardiac, assisting with the first heart transplant operation, ECMO life support, brain pressure monitoring and research. In 1988 Chris was appointed charge nurse of the ICU at the Alfred and in 1991 was appointed an educator in IC.
A truly wonderful career Chris!
Tonight, we were hoping to connect via zoom with exchange student Julie, who has returned home to Taiwan after her 3 month exchange where she was hosted by Nakaiah and Cheyenne. Unfortunately we were not able to connect due to Julie having an unplanned commitment.
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| Chairperson—Peter Tull | Exchange student Cucky and return outbound student Nakaiah. | Thanks to caterers Kerry Tull and Nicole for a lovely meal. |