Thanks to the Good Friday Appeal, The Royal Children's Hospital has established a Point-of-Care Ultrasound Program (POCUS) to improve the care clinicians can provide to their patients.

For premature babies or infants in critical care, maintaining body temperature in critical. Thanks to the Good Friday Appeal, new and improved infant warmers will be used in critical care units.

It is estimated that around 100 children develop juvenile arthritis each year in Victoria. This condition affects a child’s joints and other parts of the body, causing pain, swelling, stiffness, difficulty moving and sometimes even fevers and rashes.

Brain cancer kills more children in Australia than any other disease, which is why the Children’s Cancer Centre (CCC) is trialing a new program to improve survival rates.

Ashlea and Bec tell us about being nurses in the Emergency Department

Meet nurses, Chelsea and Justin.,who work on the Koala ward which provides specialist care to patients with both cardiac and renal conditions.

Meet bubbly Arielle, the little ambassador for the 2018 Good Friday Appeal.

The ecstasy of welcoming healthy twin boys into the world turned to terror for Natalie and Tim when at 24 hours old one of their boys, Bailey, started seizing. An ultra sound showed blood pooling in his brain and two days later an MRI confirmed that the tiny baby boy had had a stroke.

On level four of the RCH you’ll find Cockatoo ward, the specialty surgical and neurology care ward. Nurses Nicole and Bronte told us what it’s like to care for patients in the "mountain tops" of the RCH.

Patients with Intellectual Disability and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder who are also affected by mental health issues are a vulnerable group with a high care needs.