RETH HSE TMRTH ESETTER - Sisters of Nazareth

NAZARETH HOUSE - TAMWORTH

NEWSLETTERJune 2019

80 - 104 Manilla Road, Tamworth, NSW 2340 Telephone +61 2 6761 8755

Love, Compassion, Patience, Respect, Justice, Hospitality

The Tamworth Sisters were very happy to welcome to their community a new member, Sister Trang, so now we are five .. a great number! We are blessed indeed.The Sisters also welcome two newly appointed management folk to Nazareth Care Tamworth .. Allison as General Manager and Ali as Care Services Manager. We hope that their time at Nazareth is fulfilling for them and advantageous for us.July will see Sisters Rosalie and Teresa Clare in Tamworth to present Mission Alive 2019. This mandatory training each year supports the Sisters’ ongoing endeavour to have our Core Values and the mission front and centre of all that happens in our House. The Royal Commission into Aged Care, in which we are all caught up, will not be concerned about such but for the Sisters this is the lodestone of our ministry to the vulnerable elderly who make their home at Nazareth. The Sisters wish Nazareth Care staff and residents in all our Houses wonderful celebrations and many blessings as we acknowledge Victorie Larmenier on June 16th .. the week before or the week following. If she visited Nazareth Tamworth today would she find the same dedication to the care of the elderly that she and the early Sisters of Nazareth provided in circumstances we can hardly imagine in our day? I hope so!

Sister Marie

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love • compassion • patience • justice • respect • hospitality • love • compassion • patience • justice • respect • hospitality • love • compassion • patience • justice • respect • hospitality • love • compassion • patience • justice • respect • hospitality

love • compassion • patience • justice • respect • hospitality • love • compassion • patience • justice • respect • hospitality

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New Aged Care Quality StandardsThe new Aged Care Quality Standards If you would like to know more about the new aged care standards, The Australian Aged Care and Quality Agency have recently released a short video explaining what the New Quality Standards will mean for the resident/consumer. To view this video please visit:https://agedcarequality.gov.au/consumers/standards/new-standards-resources

General Manager’s ReportWell 2019 crept up on us and has very quickly almost reached the half way mark. It won’t be long before we will start counting down the days until Christmas. However, before we get to that stage, lets take a look at what has been happening in Nazareth House Tamworth so far in 2019.We have had the pleasure of new staff joining our leadership and management team in the last few months. This has included a new ACFI Coordinator Emma Allen, a new Quality and Training Coordinator Anthea Cooper, a new Care Service Manager Ali Kaya, and myself being new to the role of General Manager.In giving you a brief insight into my working history as a registered nurse: I commenced my working history at Nazareth House in 2015 as the Clinical Care Coordinator, and after 9 months as the Clinical Care Coordinator was appointed as the Care Service Manager. I fulfilled this role for a period of 3 years, where I have only recently worked my way up to the role of the General Manager. I have 16 years’ experience in the local public health service within our hospital systems and although I always thought I was best suited for the adrenalin pumping pace of the emergency department; I have since realised that my passion actually lies within aged care.I am extremely proud and honoured to have the responsibility of leading our team within Tamworth and hope to be able to continue to provide a supportive, stable and friendly working relationship with staff, relatives, families and the Sisters of Nazareth. In Tamworth, apart from orientating our new staff to our Tamworth team, we are also working on transitioning into the new Aged Care Quality Standards, which commence in all aged care facilities on 1st July 2019. The new aged care standards will make it easier to check that people are receiving good care, based on their individual needs. Rather than the current 4 standards which apply to age care facilities, there will now be 8 standards which all aged care facilities will need to adhere to. These are very resident driven and orientated, with each standard relating to an aspect of care that contributes to the safety, health and wellbeing of the resident.

Allison Groth

Sister Trang and Allison Groth

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What’s happening in ACFII have been the ACFI Coordinator since the end of January this year. I commenced this position initially in a temporary role, however this soon became a permanent position a few weeks later. I first started with Nazareth care in 2006-2009 as a career while I was completing my Nursing degree at university. In 2011, I completed my degree in Midwifery, and have since worked in medical, surgical and emergency fields.I re-joined the Nazareth Care team in January 2018 as a Registered Nurse (RN), working on the floor as a casual RN. When I am not at work, I am busy being a mum to two active little boys, Logan who is 5 and Ethan who is 2: a role that I enjoy immensely. In May of this year, I attended a 2-day workshop in Brisbane focusing on our Aged Care Funding Instrument and care planning. This education was run by Dr Drew Dwyer, who is an extremely experienced man with an obvious passion for aged care. I was also able to spend some time in another Nazareth house in May, where I have been working closely with our Wynnum ACFI Coordinator Ellie. Both of these experiences, will help in my role here in Tamworth. Over the last few months, I have been giving some of our ACFI assessments a facelift, and will continue to improve these documents, to make them as easy to understand for staff as I can. My office door is always open and I welcome anybody to come by and ask questions regarding anything ACFI related.Remember my motto, there is no such thing as a silly question.

Emma Allan ACFI Coordinator

Trivia Corner True or False• ACFI stands for

Aged Care Funding Initiative • ACFI assessments cannot start until

a new resident has been in the House for 7 days.

(Answers in our next newsletter)

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Weekly Mass Times - Nazareth House - Tamworth - Monday to Sunday 9.30am

Eucharist Adoration Eucharist Adoration and BenedictionWednesday, Friday – 4.00pm to 5.00pm Every Sunday – 4.00pm to 5.00pm

Flu Season AheadWe are rapidly heading into the flu season and as many of you may have already seen, the Department of Health are expecting this year’s flu season to be worse than previous years.In Nazareth House Tamworth, we have been working on ensuring our residents and staff are provided with the flu vaccine, and have seen many staff and residents vaccinated. Please remember, if you are unwell or showing cold and flu like symptoms, it is best for our residents if you stay at home and work on getting better.

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Wellbeing and LifestyleA busy last 3 months have seen many events with residents having a wide variety of participation and activities.In May we celebrated Mother’s Day with a High Tea once again a fantastic array of goodies provided by the kitchenI have recently attended a Diversional Therapy Association course at Wallsend which was full of new ideas and ways to guide the Wellbeing team through the new Accreditation Standards.

ANZAC Day CelebrationsANZAC Day was made very special as residents, staff and families laid wreaths in memory of relatives, friends and families who served in our armed forces.Our guest speaker from the RSL Sub-branch was a local community member, Rebecca Linich. Rebecca has served in the Australian Army Nursing Corp and has been deployed overseas during this time. Rebecca talked about her companion dog “Tucky”. The residents enjoyed listening to Rebecca and watching Tucky, as he showed us a few of his tricks. ANZAC Day celebrations also saw our very own resident choir perform on the day, leading the audience into many ANZAC songs.Thank you to everyone who helped make this day memorable and meaningful.

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St PatricksDayCelebrationsIn March this year, celebrating St Patrick’s Day, the residents at Nazareth House Tamworth were entertained by the Salvation Army Travelling Band. This comprised of a 40-piece Brass Band who have been travelling all around NSW entertaining people. The residents really enjoyed the variety of music from Swing to Hymns, with their added skits and jokes being an amusing bonus. We are all hoping to see the Salvation Army Travelling Band again soon.

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Men of LeagueWe have also had the Men of League visit on the 12th March to launch the NRL Footy season. This was a hit with our residents, with the day comprising of footy trivia and a very tasty afternoon tea. The Men of League presented our resident ‘’OJ’’ who just happens to be a die-hard Parramatta supporter, with a 2019 Parramatta jersey.

“OJ ” was very excited to have received this very nice gift.

Biggest Morning Tea Fundraiser

On May 23rd, along with the rest of the nation, we celebrated “The Biggest Morning Tea” fundraiser with our residents, staff and Sisters.A great time was had by all, with lots of food, prizes and money flowing for a wonderful cause.A big thank you to our wonderful staff in the kitchen for providing the food for this fabulous morning tea. And also for the support of the Sisters, our residents, and staff who all contributed in helping Nazareth House Tamworth raise a total of $650.00, with all proceeds going to the Cancer Council.Thank you.

Leanda, Zilla, Lisa and Jen

Our residents enjoying morning tea

OJ receiving his gift

Nell Flexman and Helen Medway

Jane Sevil and Maureen Bradby

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Debbie’s TravelsHi EveryoneI’ve just returned from being away for a few weeks and thought I would share some of the exciting adventures I have recently enjoyed. Our travels consisted of myself, my husband and a few of our friends, all setting off in 4 caravans and 1 RV.

During our travels, we visited lots of interesting places. I walked on the Seacliff Bridge and visited Kiama’s blowhole. We drove down the coast, crossing

Sorrento into Geelong on the barge/ferry onto the Great Ocean Road, where we ventured onto Port Campbell.We visited the beer shed in Port Campbell, then drove up to Echuca. We were able to fit in a lap around Mount Panorama in Bathurst, with of course the caravans in tow. We continued to travel to the Bylong Valley, which is a place I have not had the

pleasure of returning to for over 30 years!During our travels, I was even able to fit in some pottery classes at Bendigo Pottery. We all had a great time away and look forward to our next adventure.Debbie Drury Adminsitrtaion Manager

Easter CelebrationsIn April our residents celebrated Easter, with a special guest appearance by our local ‘Bunnings’ Easter Bunny. Many of our residents were spotted taking a ‘selfie’ with the Easter Bunny, as well as enjoying their Easter eggs..

Leanda Greacen Wellbeing &Lifestyle Manager

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Pat Howlett

Leopolda Figar

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Catering CornerAt the present time In Nazareth House Tamworth, we are training and educating our catering staff to produce moulded pureed meals for those of our residents who require texture modified foods.

We have also been working on adjusting our resident meal order forms to come into line with the new global standard for texture modified foods. The International Dysphagia Diet Standard Initiative (The IDDSI framework) will replace the Australian Standards for Texture modified Foods and Fluids as of April 2019.

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Chefs Recommendations..zucchini soup..Heat 1tbls oil in a large pot, sauté I diced onion, 250gms of diced bacon and a garlic clove. Add 1 litre of chicken stock plus 1 cup of water, 5 large zucchini and 2 large peeled potato’s diced cover and simmer until vegetables are soft. Remove from heat and roughly blend together.Gently stir through ½ cup of cream. Serve with favourite crusty bread.

Getting to know you - Staff MemberHI Everyone, my name is Ali Kaya, I have been working as a Registered Nurse in Nazareth Care in Wynnum prior to coming to Tamworth. I also have business management qualifications and have worked as a Manager in hotel and hospitality industries.I enjoy travelling and have travelled extensively in Europe, so little time lots of more places to see. I value open, transparent and inclusive management style where everyone can contribute and make positive changes to our resident’s daily life.I am very impressed with Nazareth Care and Tamworth in general from the day I had my interview here. Staff has been very welcoming. I am so looking forward to getting to know you all and be part of this great team, and call Tamworth home. I will be spending more time on the floor to get to know our residents, families and staff. I will make myself available to talk to anyone to improve quality of life for our residents, and make sure we are providing best available care.I would like to thank our GM Allison for spending time with me and helping me to settle in to my role.

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Did you know that one LED bulb will minimize greenhouse gas emissions by almost half a ton?

LED bulbs consume less power per unit (lumen) of light emitted, reducing the greenhouse emissions

from power plants.

LED lights also generate less heat and have a longer service life than conventional bulbs and

fluorescent lights.

Our maintenance department at Nazareth House Tamworth, are currently investigating options for

installing LED lights throughout our facility.

WATCH THIS SPACE!

Environmental Awareness

Trivia CornerAnswers from last edition...

1. American War of Independence2. Blofeld - Ernst Stavro3. Nutmeg4. Gold5. Martina Navratilova

New Questions1. Which band has received an Australian of the

Year Award?2. Who was the first Australian to win the Booker

Prize?3. Who was the subject of the 2003 Archibald Prize

winning portrait?4. Who is the lead singer of Silverchair?5. Who has an award-winning album is titled

Barricades and Brickwalls?

Answers : In next edition.

Property & MaintenanceThe onset of winter has seen us reset the building environment systems from cooling mode (summer) to the winter heating mode. I would expect that minor unforeseen issues in the heating systems will arise. I ask all staff and visitors to take the time to inform our maintenance department of the location of any deficiencies that you encounter. Typical issues might include, radiators that are not getting hot or not regulating properly and any radiator leaks you encounter.There are ongoing, long standing issues in the environmental control system and detailed work is being done behind the scenes to identify the deficiencies, devise solutions and organize suitable funding arrangements.

John Mackay Property and Maintenance Manager

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