{"id":1209,"date":"2025-03-12T14:49:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T14:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2025-03-12T14:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T14:54:41","slug":"rebecca-banens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/2025\/03\/12\/rebecca-banens\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Banens"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1210\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2025\/03\/Rebecca-Banens_150px-min.jpg\" alt=\"Rebecca Banens, Opthalmic nurse and artist, Eyes Wide Open\" width=\"150\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p><br><p><em><strong>Opthalmic nurse and artist, Eyes Wide Open; Netherlands<\/strong><\/em><\/p><br><p>&#8220;EYES WIDE OPEN &#8211; I TURN WASTE INTO ART&#8221;<\/p><br><p>My career includes both an ophthalmic nurse and a performer.<\/p><br><p>I am a professional in assisting cataract &amp; refractive surgery, vitreoretinal surgery, eyelid surgery.<\/p><br><p>In addition to my work in the operating room, I am active as an ambassador for the Dutch committee for sustainable ophthalmology, which strives to make all processes within the ophthalmological practice more sustainable. Together with the committee, I wrote the best practice sustainable cataract surgery.<\/p><br><p>I give lectures on sustainable cataract surgery, sustainability in healthcare and art.<\/p><br><p>In 2012, I obtained my bachelor&#8217;s degree in design at the Utrecht School of the Arts. I create awareness in healthcare by converting waste from operating rooms into art, like awards and trophies, wall-art and gifts made from medical waste to achieve a dialogue in sustainability. I make the subject pleasant and attractive and perform as a PlasticSoupDJ with the Plastic DJ Booth at congresses &amp; meetings.<\/p><br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opthalmic nurse and artist, Eyes Wide Open; Netherlands&#8220;EYES WIDE OPEN &#8211; I TURN WASTE INTO ART&#8221;My career includes both an ophthalmic nurse and a performer.I am a professional in assisting cataract &amp; refractive surgery, vitreoretinal surgery, eyelid surgery.In addition to my work in the operating room, I am active as an ambassador for the Dutch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/utrecht\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}