Letterkenny University Hospital is undertaking the largest recruitment campaign in the hospital’s history.
Up to 120 posts will be created over the coming months across a range of areas in the hospital.
Positions will be available across nursing specialities, midwifery, consultant and non-consultant hospital doctor specialities, laboratory, radiology and pharmacy, physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy.
There are also opportunities for Health Care Assistants and administration and support staff.
Over the coming months the hospital will recruit up to 120 posts, of which in the region of 100 are new posts, across a wide number of departments to support existing services and enable the development of new services.
LUH launches major recurtiment drive Posted: 10:47 am December 18, 2020
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Letterkenny University Hospital is undertaking the largest recruitment campaign in the hospital’s history, with positions available across nursing specialities, midwifery, consultant and non-consultant hospital doctor specialities, laboratory, radiology and pharmacy, physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy. There are also opportunities for Health Care Assistants and administration and support staff.
Sean Murphy Hospital Manager said services provided to patients continues to develop at Letterkenny University Hospital.
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Over the coming months, LUH will recruit up to 120 posts, of which in the region of 100 are new posts, across a wide number of departments to support existing services and enable the development of new services.
Keira’s Christmas Wishes Gives the Gift of Comfort to Dr Kershaw’s Hospice Patients Date published: 18 December 2020
Keira s Christmas Wishes Gives the Gift of Comfort to Dr Kershaw s Patients
Junior Fundraiser Keira Arnold, aged 13, who has been fundraising for Dr Kershaw’s for over four years, decided to bring some joy and cheer at Christmas to their day patients who have been unable to attend the Hospice since lockdown began in March.
Keira’s Dad, Stephen was cared for by the Hospice’s dedicated doctors and nurses before he sadly passed away when Keira was just 4 years old. At age 8, Keira set up her fund ‘Keira’s Wishes’ and has so far raised an amazing £32,000 for Dr Kershaw’s providing patients at the Hospice with their last wishes with anything from bedside weddings and birthday parties to a last trip to the seaside or simply funding a patient’s favourite chippy tea. Now at Christmas, with Dr Kershaw’s day patients all unable to physically come
Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said this includes 43 new cases reported today.
This raised the to-date confirmed cases among healthcare workers in the country to 1,771, he said in a statement.
Below are five groups of healthcare workers with the highest number of Covid-19 infections since the pandemic hit the country in January:
·Nurses with 690 cases
·Healthcare Assistants with 146 cases
·Assistant Medical Officers with 144 cases
·Graduate Medical Officers with 84 cases
As to the source of infections, Dr Noor Hisham said 587 of healthcare workers were infected by the community, 565 cases from transmissions among colleagues, 152 from patients who had not yet been diagnosed with Covid-19, and 58 from unknown cases. 409 cases are still under investigations.
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Sarah Tongson (R), director of social services, gives Douglas Smith some hand santizer during a family visit at the Life Care Center of Kirkland on Aug. 24, 2020 in Kirkland, Washington. According to a report by the CDC, at least 37 coronavirus deaths were linked to this facility. Getty Images
Sherry Perry has seen all the horrors of the pandemic. As a certified nursing assistant at a long-term care facility in Lebanon, Tenn., she has held a phone up to a window so a daughter could say goodbye to her dying father. She has watched residents die alone, not understanding why their families didn’t visit them in their final days. Earlier this month, she herself got Covid, suffering fever and chills, and passing out as she struggled to breathe.