{"id":2367,"date":"2024-07-10T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T03:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:05:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T06:05:55","slug":"naidoc-week-wadja-walk-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2024\/07\/10\/naidoc-week-wadja-walk-through\/","title":{"rendered":"NAIDOC Week: Wadja Walk-Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/988254147?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital welcomes patients from all over our beautiful country for cardiac treatment, but<br \/>\nwe also acknowledge that this can be a frightening time for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and<br \/>\ntheir families that can bring up feelings of fear, sadness, homesickness, and isolation. Many of our Aboriginal<br \/>\nand Torres Strait Islander patients and their families may have never been to Naarm (Melbourne) before,<br \/>\ntherefore it can be overwhelming and disorientating, particularly if families are arriving in the middle of the night.<br \/>\nThis video is a walkthrough of The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital, from staying at Ronald McDonald House through<br \/>\nto talking to cardiac surgeons in the operating theatre, this video takes patients through what to expect, and<br \/>\nhelps them to feel supported in a culturally safe environment.<br \/>\nThis year&#8217;s NAIDOC Grand Round will explore the collaboration of the Wadja Walkthrough video that was only<br \/>\npossible thanks to the dedication and countless hours invested across RCH Wadja, MCRI Heart Flagship Patient<br \/>\nAdvocacy Group and HeartKids.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Selena White<\/strong> is an Iman woman from Central Queensland and Manager of the Wadja Aboriginal Family Place.<br \/>\nSelena has over 24 years of experience working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health care. She<br \/>\ncurrently leads support of RCH Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and families with cultural support<br \/>\nand safety throughout clinic and ward consultations. Selena is a leader of advocacy in Aboriginal and Torres<br \/>\nStrait Islander healthcare, including as the Co-Chair of the RCH\u2019s Aboriginal Advisory Committee, the cross-<br \/>\ncommunity body that ensures the hospital provides equitable, culturally safe and responsive health care, and<br \/>\npromotes improved health outcomes for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Annette Gaulton<\/strong> has been an RCH Wadja Case Manager for over 10 years. Netty is a proud Kooma woman<br \/>\nfrom southwest Queensland. Netty had provided excellence and leadership in health services to Aboriginal<br \/>\nchildren and their families at RCH. Netty has made invaluable contributions to child health advocacy, liaison,<br \/>\nresearch, mental health, education, and family support to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal children<br \/>\nand young people in Australia. In 2016, she was awarded the Pied Pipers Scholarship to strengthen partnerships<br \/>\nin Northern Territory Communities, reduce risks to patient safety due to discontinuities between inpatient care<br \/>\nand care at home by improving pre-admission and post-discharge communication and planning, streamlining<br \/>\npatient care by ensuring patient and family journey is supported by providing necessary information to those<br \/>\ninvolved in patients\u2019 care prior to travel and ensuring travel and surgical arrangements are clear to parents\u2019,<br \/>\nguardians\u2019 and community Elders. Netty has been a dedicated and passionate advocate for Rheumatic Heart<br \/>\nDisease patients and their families travelling to RCH from remote Aboriginal Communities for Cardiac Surgery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rebecca Peters<\/strong> works with The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital and Murdoch Children&#8217;s Research Institute Heart<br \/>\nFlagship. Bec was born in Darwin and enjoyed a unique childhood, growing up on Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of<br \/>\nCarpentaria in the Northern Territory. In 2012, aged 19, Bec commenced her career at RCH in the Department<br \/>\nof Adolescent Medicine. In 2014 Bec joined the Murdoch Children&#8217;s Research Institute Heart Research group,<br \/>\nin 2020 the Orthopaedic group. She completed a Master of Nursing in 2023. Bec previously worked as the Youth<br \/>\nEngagement Coordinator for HeartKids, where her passion regarding the power of the consumer voice<br \/>\nbegan. Bec is now Co-Chair of the MCRI Heart Flagship Patient Advocacy Group, established in 2021, which<br \/>\nprovides a voice for the childhood heart disease community on campus. Bec continues to be a strong advocate<br \/>\nfor ensuring the patient and family voices are heard and believes engagement is a powerful way to enhance<br \/>\noutcomes and improve the standard of care for all individuals and families impacted by illness or disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital welcomes patients from all over our beautiful country for cardiac treatment, but we also acknowledge that this can be a frightening time for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families that can bring up feelings of fear, sadness, homesickness, and isolation. Many of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2024\/07\/10\/naidoc-week-wadja-walk-through\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7939,12671,12695,12679,5046,5065,5658,28214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiac","category-critical-care","category-digital-health","category-indigenous-health","category-naidoc-week","category-rch","category-video","category-wadja"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}