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ONE ST JOHN
IN THIS EDITION...
... From the editor
... Event Health Services Appointments
... ANZAC Day 2015
... Out and about
... Social Services
... General news
The official newsletter of St John Ambulance (Qld)
JUNE 2015
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Hi everyone,
Thank you for reading the June edition of the One St John newsletter.
2015 marked an extra special ANZAC Day for many with the 100th anniversary of the landings at Gallipoli. St John Ambulance (Qld) Event Health Services members from across the State attended more than 85 ceremonies for the Dawn and Morning Services. Many Divisions also marched in services to show their support for current and past serving service men and women. Thank you to all who attended and supported the very special day.
During the month of May, St John (Qld) also celebrated National Volunteers Week, which gives recognition to the hard work 1,800+ volunteers from across the State contribute every day. Each year, St John (Qld) volunteers inject $4.6 million of voluntary hours into the community, ensuring people are safe, well cared for and looked after in their time of need through our Event Health Services and Social Services groups.
While our members are out on duty during the week and on weekends, I would like to encourage everyone to SMS pictures of themselves on duty. It is a great opportunity to provide our facebook followers with real time updates on what you are up to. SMS all pictures to 0498 555 353 to have your duty up on our facebook page and show members of the public what you've been up to. Please note that pictures of casualties cannot be posted due to privacy reasons.
Congratulations to ICT Support Officer Daniel Jackson and his wife Susan on the safe arrival of their firstborn baby. Henry Jackson was born on Thursday 7 May weighing 3.87kgs with Mum and child doing very well.
"The grass is not greener on the other side of the hill, it is greener where you water it. Sometimes it is just a matter of looking after your existing product and/or services to customers."
Angela MaddenMarketing and Communications Officer
JUNE 2015
FROM THE EDITOR
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Name: Alannah BrownPosition: State Paramedic Officer
When did you join St John and why?I joined St John in 2004 as a cadet as I wanted to become a Paramedic and I had seen other cadets out on duty at thought that it would be something fun to do.
What type of Health Care Professional are you?I am now an Advanced Care Paramedic II with the Queensland Ambulance service
What is the best HCP story you have?Being able to deliver babies has been one of the most enjoyable cases I have ever been involved with.
What is the most enjoyable part of your role as a HCP in St John?The best part about being a HCP in St John is that on duty I am able to work with cadets and student HCPs getting them to treat the patient.
What would you say to other people looking at becoming a HCP?Being a Paramedic is the best job in the world – we get to help all parts of society when they are at their most
EVENT HEALTH SERVICES APPOINTMENTS
Mackay DivisionDivisional Manager – Linda Fielder (Grade IV)
Algester DivisionDivisional Paramedic Officer - Benjamin Teague (Grade V)
Brisbane Central DivisionDivisional Paramedic Officer - Andrea Young (Grade V)
St Lucia DivisionDivisional Officer - Lisa Dingwall (Grade V)
EVENT HEALTH SERVICES
Blackwater Division on duty at Blackwater May Day Fair on 2 and 3 of May. Pictured are Terry Lancaster (Divisional Officer / AR), Martin Bannan AR , Helen Christie ( New Member ) and Ken Matthews (AR).
Blackwater Division on duty in May for a schools under 8's day.
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ANZAC DAYThis year marked the 100th anniversary of the landing of Gallipoli in 1915 with parades and commemorations occurring across the globe. In Queensland, St John Ambulance (Qld) attended more than 85 ANZAC Day events, including dawn and morning services.
Thank you to the Cadets and adult members who participated in ANZAC Day services this year, and particuarly to the parents and associates of Divisions who were often behind the scenes ensuring uniforms were washed and ironed and tummy's were well fed.
Toowoomba Division pose for a photo after the ANZAC Day Dawn Service.
A special visitor for the Redland Division at the ANZAC Day ceremony.
Brisbane Central Division members take their brand new BERT bikes out to the ANZAC Day ceremonies in Brisbane CBD. These bikes were kindly funded through the Caring for our Community Queensland Government grant.
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ANZAC DAY
Redland Division members at the morning ANZAC Day service.
Sunshine Coast Division covered two ANZAC Day ceremonies including the Caloundra and Nambour parades.Mike Andrews, Chris Morris and Tyrone Andrews are pictured at the Nambour Parade.
Ipswich cadets attend the flag ceremony at the Ipswich show. Pictured are Holly Stiffel, Joanne Halls, April Hedger and
Corporal Katie Anson.
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ANZAC DAY
Mackay Division members Jarrod Bennett, Nakita Connelly, Liam Gibson and Hannah Hardy lay a wreath at Jubilee Park, Mackay.
Ipswich Division attending the laying of the wreath ceremony where the wreath was laid by Katlyn Bambrick and Madison Handley. After the ceremony, the Division attended the main Ipswich march and performed first aid duty to the public and the parade participants.
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Wynnum Division Cadets completed the Anzac Heritage Proficiency Badge late last year, and during their interview with a returned serviceman (Mr John Harms) they were invited to participate in the march to be held on Anzac Day in the Wynnum Dawn Parade. They accepted the invitation readily. In the dark we assembled and received instructions. We walked to the meeting point. Some of the Cadets proudly wore medals of reatives who had fought and ‘passed’.
There was a buzz of excitement amongst them as they were marshalled into the place amid the sounds of the instruments tuning up, the cannons being rolled into place - and old friends meeting up and shaking hands and welcoming the cadets. Wynnum Cadets led the adult members of the Division and carried the flags for the dawn march dawn the Wynnum Esplanade.
ANZAC DAY
Niccolino Ceranni at the Graceville ANZAC Day ceremony (Western Suburbs Division).
The Rockhampton Adults attended the dawn service, which saw numbers more than double from last year. The Division were also treated to a fly over by an F18 jet which was a great highlight.
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St John Ambulance (Qld) Social Services would like to say a big thank you to our volunteers! Our Social Services volunteers undertake many roles including driving our clients to help them access the community, providing security and friendship calls, providing assistance at Logan and Caboolture Hospitals and helping out around the Virginia, Maryborough and Bundaberg offices. Without our volunteers we could not provide the services that we do to the community. During National Volunteer Week we celebrated our volunteers by hosting some morning and afternoon teas. At these
events we presented our volunteers with certificates and badges. Certificates and badges were also sent out to our Silver Cord volunteers who live throughout Queensland. Our healthcare volunteers in Logan and Caboolture Hospitals were treated to a morning tea and light luncheon held by the hospitals to show their appreciation.
Social Services attended volunteer expos in both Bundaberg and Maryborough during Volunteer Week to promote the benefits of volunteering at St John Ambulance. We are currently looking for more volunteers to join our Social Services team including drivers for the Community Transport Access Project and callers for Silver Cord. Please contact us on 1800 ASK STJ (1800 275 785) for more information.
St John would also like to congratulate Social Services volunteers Belinda Vanderwilt, Lorraine McAulay, Margaret Straughair, Phyllis Taylor, Anne Wade, Janice Misfield, Gloria Fairfax and Sandra Williams who all received service medals for their dedication and commitment to St John Ambulance (Qld).
Social Services are also excited to announce the launch of the new phone number for the Community Transport Access Project. St John Social Services has been undertaking the task of streamlining some processes of its services to align with the rollout of the Commonwealth Home Support Programme which begins on 1 July 2015. The new centralised phone number will result in more effective processes and improve service delivery for all of our clients, as well as the convenience of not having different phone numbers for each office. The new phone number for the Community Transport Access Project as of 1 June 2015 is 1800 BOOK SJ (1800 2665 75).
SOCIAL SERVICES
St John (Qld) Hospital volunteers - Joan Clough, Jeffrey Griffiths, Gabrielle James, Fiona Pang, Freya Pavlovic, Joan Harvey and Sue Coleman at Logan Hospital.
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SOCIAL SERVICES
Silver Cord volunteer Darlene Brown is participating in the Mates4Mates Big Battlefield Bike Ride. St John Ambulance (Qld) was delighted to donate some first aid kits to Darlene and her team to ensure they were safe.
The Mates4Mates Big Battlefield Bike Ride raises funds for wounded, injured and ill Australian defence force members and their families.
Honouring World War 2, the route will take our Mates on an emotional and challenging journey as they ride from Paris to Windsor through Normandy taking in the D-Day beaches. Visiting historic World War 2 sites together with a number of wounded, injured and sick heroes, participants will remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice then and still do today.
To donate to this worthwhile cause and support a fellow St John volunteer, visitwww.mates4matesbigbattlefieldbikeride2015.everydayhero.com/au/darlene-brown.
Caboolture Hospital volunteer Helen receives a Certificate of Appreciation for her dedicated committment to the Health Care Helpers program.
Nanna Care volunteers from the Logan Hospital Belinda Vanderwilt and Sue Pockson cuddling with some newborn babies.
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Continuing on from the February and April editions of the One St John, the following medical journal article has been kindly submitted by Prof. John Pearn.
Penicillin and EtherThis section consists of two discoveries by medical students that were both overlooked and later credited to others.
The first of these was penicillin. In his 1897 graduation thesis entitled ‘Contribution to the study of vital competition between microorganisms: antagonism between moulds and microbes’, Ernest Duchesne (1874-1912) a 23-year-old medical student at l’Ecole du Service de Sante Militaire in Lyon, France, demonstrated the ability of the fungus Penicillium glaucum to treat pathogenic bacterial infections caused by Escherichia coli or Salmonella typhi. His studies included in vivo experiments in guinea pigs. Duchesne attriburted this property to the existence of a toxin (an antibiotic) produced by the fungus. He also predicted its therapeutic potential. Unfortunately, Duchesne did not continue his research and never saw his work confirmed by Chain, Florey and Jennings in 1942 or the benefits of his discovery. It appears that he never came to terms with his wife’s death from tuberculosis in 1903. He too contracted pulmonary tuberculosis and by 1907 was on permanent sick leave. He died of tuberculosis in 1903. He died at the age of 37. His work was only rediscovered in 1945 and was commemorated in a postage stamp issued in Monaco in 1974 on the centenary of his birth.According to Lyman, a medical student by the name of William E. Clarke was the first to administer ether anaesthesia for surgery. This event took place in Rochester, New York, in January 1842, enabling a dentist to perform a painless tooth extraction. Priority for the use of ether anaesthesia is usually given to others including Crawford Williamson Long (1815-1878), who, as a young country doctor in Georgia in March 1842, administered ether to a young man from whom he painlessly excised a small cyst from his neck. Although Long performed several further operative procedures under ether anaesthesia, he did not publish an account of his activities until 1849, several years after Horace Wells’ personal experiment with nitrous oxide (1844) and William Morton’s public demonstration of ether anaesthesia (1846).
GENERAL NEWS
SpermatozoaWe end this review at the beginning of life. Spermatozoa were first discovered in 1677 by Johan Ham (1951-1723), a medical student from Leiden who brought Antoni van Leeuwenhoeck (alt. Leeuwenhoek) (1632-1723), a specimen of urethral discharge from a man with gonorrhoea in which Ham had found small living ‘animalcules’ with tails. Leeuwenhoeck was a poorly educated Dutchman whose passion for making lenses and studying biological tissues and micro-organisms later earned him a place in history as the father of microscopy. According to one source, Ham may have first identified spermatozoa in the semen of sterile men and the fact that they did not survive beyond 24 hours. After Ham’s visit, Leeuwenhoeck studied his own semen (obtained by ‘conjugal coitus’ and not from ‘finsfully defiling’ himself) and confirmed the presence of motile animalcules, less than a millionth the size of a coarse grain of sand, with blunt round bodies and thin, undulating transparent tails. A month later, Leeuwenhoeck reported these findings in a letter to the Royal Society in London in which he credited Johan Ham with the discovery. The letter was in Latin because of the delicate nature of its content. The impact of Ham’s discovery and Leeuwenhoeck’s observations on the theory of generation was immense. Although ham may have first suspected the relevance of spermatozoa to reproduction, it was Leeuwenhoeck who proposed that fertilization followed the penetration of the ovum by the sperm, although he mistakenly believed that the spermatozoon contained a preformed individual.
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GENERAL NEWS
This account of famous discoveries by medical students is neither comprehensive, nor are the biographies exhaustive. Figures such as Galileo and Keats who never completed their medical studies but made such profound ‘discoveries’ in other walks of life have been overlooked. So too have some notable other discoveries by medical students such as the roller pump invented by Michael DeBakey (1908-2008), which subsequently became an essential component of the heart lung machine. However, from selected biographical sketches, a few common themes emerge.
All of these achievements have impacted on the practice of surgery. They were the result of intense effort. To quote the great inventor Thomas Edison (1847-1931), ‘Success is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration.’ Several of these students suffered loss of a parent and/or particular hardship in childhood, which undoubtedly strengthened their resolve to succeed. This is well demonstrated by Klumpke and Fogarty. Another thread that binds many of these discoveries together is the opportunity for research by medical students. In the latter half of the 19th century, European medical students had to write and defend a research thesis for their doctorate in medicine. This was the platform on which the discoveries of Raynaud,
Langerhans, Klumpke,
Oddi and Duchesne were built. In England and North America, summer research projects seem have been particularly fruitful for Flack, McLean and Best. Opportunities for research by medical students in an increasingly crowded undergraduate curriculum need to be preserved. Although some of the spontaneity and freedom of research are restricted by today’s bureaucracy, the opportunity for discovery is still there.
In a world overwhelmed with biomedical publications, modern medical students might wonder if there is anything left to discover. A quick search on the Internet is usually enough to suggest that any idea has already been exhaustively explored or that new discoveries are only possible in molecular biology. But students and teachers must not be discouraged. The most naïve questions are often the best. John Shaw Billings (18938-1913), founder of the National Library of Medicine vowed to establish the world’s greatest medical library when he was a medical student. He said, There is nothing really difficult if you only begin. Some people contemplate a task until it looms so big it seems impossible. But I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the
job was to be done.’
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GENERAL NEWSSpecial thank you from the Chairman, Board of Directors.
Dr Vlas Efstathis has asked me to forward a sincere thankyou to all the staff and members of the St John Family Queensland who worked so very hard to plan, coordinate and support the conduct of the St John Ambulance Australia Member Convention 2015 – the difference is YOU.
The Chairman and Directors who were present during the Convention received widespread appreciation from participants of both the structure and inclusiveness of the One St John Program and importantly; the generousity and supportive behaviour demonstrated by the Queensland staff and members.
The participants rated the Convention as highly successful and personally satisfying and there were many comments from Senior Priory Officers that it could develop as a model format for future annual convention events. Well done to us all.
Dr Efstathis is very much aware that this significant Convention workload had to be carried in addition to the regular corporate work of staff and the service delivery workload of our EHS and Social Services members and that is why he and fellow Directors wish to say thank you to all staff and members actively involved in the success of the Convention. YOU made the difference !
Noel GillardChief Executive Officer3 May 2015
St John AmbulAnce (Qld)StAte council memberS
Dr Vlas Efstathis OAM KStJ RFDMr Peter McMurtrie AO KStJMiss Joy Murray OStJProf Peter Leggat AM OStJ JPMs Shirley Watson DStJDr Angus McDonell BM KStJMiss Beth Dawson AM DStJMr Robert Devere OStJDr Paul Luckin CStJDr Peter Sharwood OAM OStJ RFDDr Fred Leditschke AM KStJDr Jason Acworth MStJDr Gerard Meijer OAM OStJ JPProf John Pearn AO GCStJ RFDMr Leo McNamara ASMMajor Geoff Jones MStJMr Malcolm McDonald OAM OStJMr Peter Kemp CStJMiss Casey McDermottMrs Sandra BoutMr Vince Little KStJMr Darryl Rice OStJMs Alison De MarcoMrs Vera Crook OAM DStJMrs Julie NorquayMr Glen Morrison
St John members (pictured far right) competed in the 2015 State Youth Volunteer Games alongside the Rural Fire Brigade, Surf Life Saving Queensland, Army Cadets and more. Well done!
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Submissions to the One St John newsletter are warmly welcomed from all members of St John Ambulance (Qld) including staff, volunteers, board members and associates.
The next edition of One St John will be available Monday 3 AugustThe closing date for submissions is COB 24 July.
Send your stories and photos for inclusion to the next edition to:Angela MaddenPO Box 1645FORTITUDE VALLEY QLD 4006or email [email protected]
SUBMISSIONS
FROM THE EDITOR
IMPORTANT - KOTO AWARD SUBMISSIONSThe History and Heritage Committee assessorts were delighted that the number of projects for the 2015 Mark Compton Award - KOTO Award had increased this year as the numbers submitted in 2013 and 2014 were disappointing. Divisions had been requested to ensure a reference list or bibliography to be included with the project, which assists in identifying the source of material submitted.
It would be appreciated when projects are submitted via email that a printed copy be provided in colour which enhanced photographs and the project.
Projects which are innovative indicate the creativeness of the Cadet, such projects would be improved if supported by a leaflet explaining the detail.
Providing feedback on the individual projects to the respective Cadet is essential so that the quality of the project is known as well as correcting any errors which may have been made.
The History and Heritage Committee encourages each Division to participate in the Mark Compton Award as the Proficiency Badge for Knowledge of the Order is a mandatory Badge for the awarding of the Grand Prior's Badge.
The St John Ambulance Cadets of today are the future adult members of the organisation and an understanding of its history and heritage can lead to enjoyment of travel, a professional career and the wider community.
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