by Ellen Beattie | Jun 5, 2019 | Nursing and Midwifery
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING The Maluk Timor midwifery team has been focused on building a relationship with the midwives at one of the busiest maternity Units in Dili. The midwifery team attend the clinic 2.5 days a week and provide clinical support. The team have...
by Ellen Beattie | May 15, 2019 | Nursing and Midwifery
We want the Timorese community to value and respect their local health centres. That respect will be based on more than the quality of the care provided but also upon the patient’s experience of how they were treated. There’s an old expression that captures this well:...
by Doctor Jeremy | May 13, 2019 | Nursing and Midwifery
Any of us who have ever been sick or hospitalised know the value of a great nurse. Doctors breeze in and out but it is the nurses who so often make the difference. We know that the quality of the patient experience matters almost as much as the clinical care: the...
by Doctor Jeremy | Dec 10, 2018 | Nursing and Midwifery
Maluk Timor is successful in its application in the inaugural round of Australian Aid: Friendship Grants – the Nursing Triage Program to be expanded. On 30 November 2018 the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator the Hon Marise Payne, announced the successful...
by Doctor Jeremy | Nov 10, 2018 | Nursing and Midwifery
Triage Triumph Most of us take it for granted that when we arrive at an Emergency Department we will be interviewed by a nurse who makes an assessment of how urgent our condition might be. This is known as triage: determining which patients need to be seen in what...
by Doctor Jeremy | Aug 14, 2018 | HIV/AIDS, Malnutrition, News, Nursing and Midwifery, Timorese Doctors, Tuberculosis, Women's Health
Welcome to our Christmas newsletter. The people of East Timor are fortunate that you have chosen to continue to support Maluk Timor in its endevour to improve the health of its most marginalized. Unless you’re a regular Facebook follower, you probably have relatively...
by Helen Moorfoot | Jul 19, 2018 | Nursing and Midwifery
Part of working as a team means you sometimes have to either pause your program or run dual streams to help our Ministry of Health (MOH) partners achieve their goals. Maluk nursing and midwifery teams join with the MOH in this fortnight’s immunisation campaign. We are...
by Dr Bethany Beckett | Jun 11, 2018 | Nursing and Midwifery
Celebrating the launch of the triage program at Vera Cruz Community Health Centre. It is so good to be able to upskill and coach local staff in this area. It ensures assessment of sick people is not delayed, children with malnutrition are not missed and possible TB...
by Dr Bethany Beckett | May 18, 2018 | Nursing and Midwifery
Triage training is underway at Vera Cruz. The groundwork was laid, discussion and feedback sort. Time to explain the process to the doctors, nurses and patients. For the 200 – 300 patients a day, this will revolutionise the wait times for those acutely unwell,...
by Dr Bethany Beckett | May 1, 2018 | Nursing and Midwifery, Women's Health
Program update and engagement with our Australian subcommittee. Such a achievement to have our Timorese midwives, social health workers and Healthcare workers discussing the issues with senior staff in Australia on skype. Holding their own in discussion . A Senior...
