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PROMOTION

'WE WORK TOGETHER'

Kalindi Goolaup is a Ward Manager

The Royal Hospital
for Neurodisability is set in
picturesque Putney

injury and neurological illness. While they
someone as 'incurable' included
are very different to the people that
conditions such as epilepsy,
were cared for in the 1800s,
rheumatism and even
the ethos and drive of the
broken limbs. Of course,
THE
organisation has remained
medicine has come a
HOSPITAL
the same: to help maximise
long way since then
HAS DEVELOPED
ability, to optimise quality
and RHN, which
of life and to provide the
changed its name
NEW TECHNIQUES
best possible level of care.
to better reﬂect the
FOR THOSE LIVING
The RHN's independent
nature of its work,
WITH COMPLEX
charitable status plays
has played a very
DISABILITIES
a large role in realising
real role in developing
these goals. Through raising
new approaches and
charitable funds, additional
techniques for people
services and therapies are provided
living with the most complex
such as music therapy, electronic assistive
of disabilities.
technology, pastoral support and a very
Quality of life
active leisure programme, to name just a
Today, RHN provides specialist medical
few. Each of these greatly contribute to
care, rehabilitation and disability
wellbeing and quality of life, which is vital to
management to people living with brain
the rich holistic approach to delivering care.

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Kalindi's nursing
background is in mental
health so moving to
neurology may not seem
like the most natural
of moves. But this
background has in no way troubled
her, as she has gone from strength
to strength since joining the team as
Ward Manager on one of the RHN's
specialist Huntington's disease wards
back in March 2013.
'I was invited for an informal visit in
January 2013 and just fell in love with
the place. The building and grounds
are so impressive in themselves but
there's something very different about
how things work here.
'I'll admit, it did feel a bit daunting
before I started but the support I
received, and continue to receive,
means that my knowledge and
experience has grown so quickly. And
I don't just mean from my manager
but from absolutely everyone, from
the team of nurses and healthcare
assistants that work in my ward and
the wider nursing establishment,
to the extensive team of therapists
and the specialist doctors we have
working here. Everyone works together
towards the best outcome for the
individual patient and there is a lot of
expertise-sharing towards this goal.
'There are so many development
opportunities here for nurses. My
experience has really grown across the
board from tracheostomy management,
tissue viability, catheterisation and
infection control to name just a few.
There's obviously the everyday health
management skills which are essential
for all nurses but the highly specialist
nature of patients at the RHN means it's
the ideal place for nurses to develop.'

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