Infection control Archives - PatchSA https://patchsa.org/tag/infection-control/ People who care supporting people who care Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:39:41 +0000 en-ZA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 Voices of Palliative Care Campaign https://patchsa.org/voices-of-palliative-care-campaign/ https://patchsa.org/voices-of-palliative-care-campaign/#respond Fri, 21 May 2021 10:05:01 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=3172 21 May 2021 We are thrilled to be working in collaboration with palliative care organisations around the country on a new campaign to highlight personal stories and 'aha moments' about palliative care within our borders. Who is running the campaign? The Palliative Care Action Group [PCAG], a group of like-minded stakeholders in South African have [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/voices-of-palliative-care-campaign/feed/ 0 New online course to support children grieving due to COVID-19 https://patchsa.org/online-course-child-grief/ https://patchsa.org/online-course-child-grief/#respond Tue, 04 May 2021 06:05:43 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=3136 3 May 2021 We are pleased to announce the launch of our latest Patch Academy course, created in response to the present COVID-19 pandemic that has left thousands of grieving children in its wake South Africa remains in the midst of dealing with the catastrophic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic while facing the very real [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/online-course-child-grief/feed/ 0 Help for learners coping with grief and a new normal https://patchsa.org/help-for-learners-coping-with-grief-and-a-new-normal/ https://patchsa.org/help-for-learners-coping-with-grief-and-a-new-normal/#respond Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:01:00 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=2989 24 March 2021 Earlier this month PatchSA Training Manager, Tracy Rawlins, spent a morning providing support to the matric students at St Monica's Diocesan Secondary School in Matatiele Last year Patch was approached by St Monica's Diocesan to talk to the Grade 12 class on Covid-19 and how it was affecting them and their final [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/help-for-learners-coping-with-grief-and-a-new-normal/feed/ 0 Championing Palliative Care https://patchsa.org/championing-palliative-care/ https://patchsa.org/championing-palliative-care/#respond Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:29:18 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=2595 PatchSA Ambassador, Huyaam Samuels, explains what receiving palliative care meant to her and how it improved the quality of her life.  As an individual living with a rare life-limiting condition, I realised how cruel specialists could be when presented with something they have never encountered or cannot physically see, such as chronic pain. I became [...]

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]]> https://patchsa.org/championing-palliative-care/feed/ 0 The legacy of Florence Nightingale in a world dealing with COVID-19 https://patchsa.org/florence_nightingale_and_covid-19/ https://patchsa.org/florence_nightingale_and_covid-19/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:16:18 +0000 https://patchsa.org/?p=2244 In this 2020 Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, Joan Marston, professional nurse and vice Chair of PatchSA considers the valuable legacy of Florence Nightingale in a world dealing with COVID-19. When the World Health Assembly declared 2020 the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife in celebration of the 200th birthday of Florence [...]

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