Nurse in Vanuatu

12/03/2024

For those who don't know him, meet Dr Trelly Patunvanu !
Dr Trelly is a Ni- Vanuatu physician, who has trained in PNG and Australia, mainly in emergency and surgical units. He is kind and patient, his patients love him as he takes time to explain everything to them. He can deal with many emergency situations and organize medevac overseas if needed. He is happy to answer after hours calls (5606135) upon availibility and emergency requests.

12/03/2024

So proud to be on this Team 🏥

VPH team keeps growing to offer more and better services to our dear patients !
From left to right :
- Dr Trelly, emergency physician
- Eugenie, nurse practitionner
- Nikita, mid-wife
- Dr Carine, family medicine
Call 22255 for any queries or email : vanuatuprivatehospital@gmail.com

07/12/2023

Morning Port-Vila ✨
Don’t hesitate to contact me, it would be a pleasure to help you 🙏🏽

14/11/2023

🚨🗝️ A small injury and or a wound can happen very quickly! Remember that small injuries can become large and treating them must be systematic in order to avoid any complications. Injuring oneself must rhyme with

CLEAN, TREAT AND PROTECT.

🧼 CLEAN:

Always remember to wash your hands well before taking care of your injury. Water and soap are your first allies, especially to remove from the wound all foreign bodies that may be there (gravel, earth, etc.). Once your wound has been cleaned, you can use an antiseptic solution to prevent bacterial proliferation: it is disinfection.

Chlorhexidine is particularly indicated because it does not sting.

🎯 TREAT:

💊 Drug treatment (antibiotic for example) may SOMETIMES be necessary in some cases, especially if the injury is deep, or if you have doubts about the hygiene of the surface on which you have injured yourself.

⚠️ But antibiotics are not always necessary!! It’s always better to ask the opinion of a professional. Don’t hesitate to contact me for advice.

⚜️ In order to prevent complications, monitor for potential signs of infection on a daily basis:

● Redness, swelling around the wound

● Pain and sensitivity in the wound

● Discharge of pus

🩹 PROTECTION :

In order to protect the wound as best as possible and avoid complications, you can cover the wound with a dressing of suitable size and shape, especially when you are outside.

🚫🌊 And as said in my previous post: AVOID SEA WATER!

12/11/2023

⚠️🗣️ You’ve certainly heard: "Go swimming in the sea, sea water heals wounds"

But...

🚨 IT'S A MYTH!!

👉🏽 In this post, I explain EVERYTHING and give you some advice:

🌊 Sea water, rich in salt, tends to irritate... And has no healing or even sterilizing virtue. Seawater will slow healing, and can even infect the wound. To help a wound heal, it is instead necessary to rinse it well with water...

‼️ ATTENTION, not just any water...:

🦠 In reality, impurities in coastal water and stagnant waters can contain large amounts of microbes. The latter proliferate freely because of the high temperatures of the water.

👍🏽 It’s more judicious to use physiological serum.

💊 So it is true that physiological serum has the same salt concentration as sea water BUT physiological serum for medical use has a quality that seawater does not have: It’s STERILE.

🧂 Salt tends to remove and dehydrate bacteria and dead cells, facilitating cleaning. On the other hand, it doesn’t disinfect. Seawater contains many microorganisms that can contaminate wounds.

⚜️ In conclusion, avoid sea water when you have a wound likely to become infected or cover it with a waterproof dressing.

💥🔑 Injuring yourself must rhyme with CLEANING, TREATING AND PROTECTING.

👩🏼‍⚕️ Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any other questions.
+6787753056

09/11/2023

🚨‼️ Contrary to popular belief, leaving an open wound exposed does not speed up the healing process. In fact, an open and untreated wound can be more painful, and take longer to heal.

🦠 Open wounds leave the tissue of your body exposed to the elements. Accidental contact, dust and other airborne irritants can easily infect the wound, as can bacterial colonies that are already present on other parts of your skin.

⚠️ BUT, to promote healing, it is not always necessary to cover the wounds... Each wound has different characteristics giving rise to specific management.

👩🏼‍⚕️ Don’t hesitate, ask for the opinion of a professional. Your health is our duty!
+678 775 3056
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🚨‼️ Contrairement à la croyance populaire, laisser une blessure ouverte exposée n'accélère pas le processus de guérison. En fait, une blessure ouverte et non traitée peut être plus douloureuse et prendre plus de temps à guérir.

🦠 Les blessures ouvertes laissent les tissus de votre corps exposés aux éléments. Le contact accidentel, la poussière et d'autres irritants dans l'air peuvent facilement infecter la blessure, tout comme les colonies bactériennes qui sont déjà présentes sur d'autres parties de votre peau.

⚠️ MAIS, pour favoriser la cicatrisation il ne faut pas toujours recouvrir les plaies… Chaque plaie disposent de caractéristiques différentes donnant lieu à une prise en charge spécifique.

👩🏼‍⚕️ N’hésitez pas à demander l’avis d’un professionnel. Votre santé est notre priorité!
+678 7753056

09/11/2023

● Who I am ?
💁🏼‍♀️My name is Eugenie and I am a French nurse.

● My professional career:

✈️ After practicing in hospital in various services (including medicine and palliative care) I decided to leave the Metropolis and settle in New Caledonia.

🇳🇨 Arriving there, I quickly flew to the Loyalty Islands. It was in Ouvéa and then in Lifou that I was able to practice in a dispensary and thus develop my skills during different Emergencies. For 1 year, I had the chance to discover and integrate Kanak’s culture, customs but also to learn more about the different diseases in tropical areas.

🇻🇺 It’s now here, in Vanuatu, that life led me to continue my discovery of the Pacific.

● My role as a nurse:

👩🏼‍⚕️ To differentiate with the doctor, my role is not to make diagnoses but to carry out care necessary to maintain your health: monitoring your blood pressure, help in taking and understanding your medications, carrying out your vaccines or any other injection, blood test, making bandage (post surgery, burn, boil, removal of stitches or any other wounds), help in the management of the end of life at home. I also take care of elderly people to accompany them home.

🏥 I work in collaboration with several doctors on Efate to cover all your needs. All the care I carry out can be practical at home, in VPH (+678 22255) or in Medical Centre (+678 22826)

🍀 A strong commitment to improving the quality of patient care at home.

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● Qui sui je ?
💁🏼‍♀️ Je m’appelle Eugenie et je suis une infirmière française.

● Mon parcours :

✈️ Après avoir exercé à l’hôpital dans différents services (notamment en médecine et en soins palliatifs) j’ai décidé de quitter la Métropole et de m’installer en Nouvelle Calédonie.

🇳🇨 Arrivée sur place, je me suis rapidement envolée vers les îles Loyautés. C’est donc à Ouvéa puis à Lifou que j’ai pu exercer en dispensaire et ainsi développer mes compétences face aux différentes Urgences. Pendant 1 année, j’ai eu la chance de découvrir et d’intégrer la culture kanak, les coutumes mais aussi d’en apprendre plus sur les différentes maladies en zone tropicale.

🇻🇺 C’est désormais ici, au Vanuatu, que la vie m’a mené pour que je puisse poursuivre mon rêve à la découverte du Pacifique.

● Mon rôle d’infirmière :

👩🏼‍⚕️ A différencier avec le médecin, mon role nest pas de poser des diagnostiques mais bien de réaliser des soins nécessaires au maintien de votre sante : surveillance de votre tension, aide dans la prise et la comprehension de vos médicaments, réaliser vos vaccins ou toutes autres injections, prise de sang, realisation de pansement (post chirurgie, brûlure, furoncle, retrait de points de sutures ou toutes autres plaies), aide dans la prise en charge des fins de vie au domicile. Je m'occupe également des personnes âgées afin de les accompagner au domicile.

🏥 Je travaille en collaboration avec plusieurs médecins de l’île d’Efate afin de couvrir l'enssemble de vos besoins. Tous les soins que je réalise peuvent être pratiqués au domicile, à VPH (+678 22255) ou au Medical Centre (+678 22826)

🍀 Un engagement fort dans une démarche d’amélioration de la qualité de la prise en charge des patients à domicile.