St John WA in Gnowangerup, Western Australia | Medical and health

St John WA

Locality: Gnowangerup, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 9841 4212

Address: 20 Corbett Street 6335 Gnowangerup, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.stjohnwa.com.au

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25.01.2022 Thank you to all our amazing volunteers! You all do an amazing job and our community is very lucky to have you all

22.01.2022 When Western Australians give to St John Giving, St John builds more resilient communities for WA.

21.01.2022 Everyone knows that you should always call for an ambulance in a medical emergency, but there is often a bit of confusion around what constitutes a medical emer...gency. Please call Triple Zero (000) and request an ambulance in the following situations. Note: If you are unsure about whether a person requires an ambulance, it is better to call Triple Zero (000). chest pain or chest tightness sudden onset of weakness, numbness or paralysis of the face, arm or leg breathing difficulties unconsciousness uncontrollable bleeding a sudden collapse or unexplained fall unexplained fitting in adults injury from a major car accident a fall from a great height serious assault, including stabbing or shooting severe burns, particularly in young children infants who are fitting or have an ongoing fever. In a medical emergency, it is important that you do not drive yourself or another person to hospital as you may endanger your life, the patient's life or members of the public. Not only are you unable to concentrate on driving but moving some patients can make the situation worse. In a medical emergency, Communication Officers can provide medical advice and paramedics can commence essential life-saving treatment at the scene, as well as en route to hospital, rather than beginning treatment at the hospital. Please be mindful that just because you have called an ambulance, does not mean you will be seen sooner once you've arrived at the hospital. For when it's urgent, but not an emergency, you can always visit one of our Urgent Care centres. For more information, click here: stjohnhealth.com.au/walk-in-urgent-care/ We'd appreciate it if this message was shared, thank you.

21.01.2022 St John WA has now changed how we treat patients suffering from potential spinal injuries. Semi-rigid collars were traditionally applied if the patient was b...elieved to have been suffering from a cervical spinal injury, regardless of the severity level. This is no longer considered best practice and have since implemented a new assessment criteria. We encourage everyone to familiarise yourself with this update. Please share this amongst your friends and families. Thank you for helping us spread this message.

20.01.2022 Welcome to Day 2 of the Virtual Awards Sundowner event, where we will be celebrating the incredible achievements made by our staff and volunteers over the last year. Here are the award recipients for @St John WA - Great Southern! Stay tuned for the Metro Awards update at 7:30pm AWST.

18.01.2022 Volunteer Training Our vollies had a very unusual but very fun training night tonight! Some clinical related games to make everyone laugh after compleating our training for the year

18.01.2022 Congratulations to all the winning teams today!

16.01.2022 Our volunteers are down at the Gnowangerup Sporting Complex for the winter sports great day for chilling in the van watching the footy!

14.01.2022 Please be safe over the festive period

13.01.2022 How do you like your eggs in Summer? It's going to get so hot you could probably fry them on the foot path! Probably not, but our skin is pretty susceptible to ...heat-related conditions with the increase in temperature. Whether it's being mindful of sunscreen application or reducing the risk of heat stroke, there are things we can do to help ourselves. Keeping an eye on your water intake is always sensible for a start. If we may offer one more piece of advice... stop putting moisturising lotion on your sunburns! We see this too often, so please use aloe vera, cold running water or a cool towel to help cool your skin down if you're suffering from a sunburn. If you don't know how to treat a patient suffering from severe sunburns, be sure to download the St John First Responder App, so you can download our free first aid tips. You can find this in the first aid toolbox. You could even take it one step further and book yourself in for some first aid training - never a bad idea to learn how to save a life. You can learn more about the training we offer at stjohnwa.com.au/first-aid-training Stay cool, everyone .

12.01.2022 Trigger Warning : The aim of this post is to help educate the WA community about what to do when experiencing or witnessing a Mental Health emergency. If any ...of the content expressed in this post upsets you, please discontinue reading and reach out for support. A couple of days ago, we posted about when you should call for an ambulance. We received a lot of feedback about the inclusion of when to call for help in a mental health emergency. We wanted to help answer those questions and have pulled together some useful information that will hopefully help in the event of a mental health emergency. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How do I know if I need to call for help? This is a tricky question to answer. In most situations, it's not so black and white and sharing a checklist of potential symptoms may not be the right way to answer this question. We believe that when in doubt, always call Triple Zero (000). It's always better to seek assistance than do nothing at all. We're here to help and will do our best to assist you in your time of need. Our Communications Officer will do their best to offer assistance over the phone and get the right help to you as soon as possible. Always remember that you are important and deserve help when you need it most. If you need urgent help but do not want an ambulance, please reach out to the resources listed at the bottom of this post. Most importantly, if you or someone you know is at immediate risk of harm it is imperative you call for help. Not all responses to Mental Health emergencies will result in admission to hospital. All cases are managed individually and are subject to the needs of the patient at that time. Always follow DRSABCD and ensure first of all that you are safe from any danger. We hope this information has been helpful and answers your questions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Important Crisis Support Information Lifeline 13 14 14 Beyond Blue 1300 224 636 Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467 Mental Health Emergency Response Line Metro > 1300 555 788 Country > 1800 676 822 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Educational Resources blackdoginstitute.org.au/resources-support/ beyondblue.org.au/the-facts healthywa.wa.gov.au/Articles/J_M/Mental-health-emergency stjohnwa.com.au/first-aid-training/mental-health

12.01.2022 Great project in our community. Join in on Wednesday to promote this important message.

10.01.2022 Well done to one of our volunteers for playing her 200th game of hockey today Sharon Miniter

05.01.2022 GNOWANGERUP POLICE ARE ENCOURAGING ALL RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES WHO HAVE CCTV TO REGISTER ON THE STATE CCTV REGISTER. GET INVOLVED AND HELP KEEP THE COMMUNITY S...AFE. SEE ATTACHED LINK FOR REGISTRATION DETAILS AND IT’S FREE. https://wastatecctvregister.police.wa.gov.au #fb This update came from the Gnowangerup Police on Twitter

03.01.2022 Job Opportunity with St John Ambulance!

02.01.2022 Santa will be touring Gnowangerup in the Ambulance Wednesday 23rd December 2020 from 5pm

01.01.2022 Gnowangerup St John Ambulance will have two vans at the Grand Final this weekend pop along and say hello to our friendly volunteers or have a look around our vans. We are always looking for new volunteers to join our team Good luck to our Football, Netball and Hockey teams who all made it into their grand final! We will be cheering you on from the side line

01.01.2022 Some of our volunteers supporting Mental Health Week and the Blue Tree Project