OCT 2022
VOL. 11, ISSUE 1, PAGE 5
HELLO AND GOODBYE
Bre Kehoe - NUM Ward 6B
Bre was born in southern Ireland the youngest of 6 children. She commenced her nursing training in Essex UK studying Midwifery, but then transferred to CCU at Royal Free Hospital in London. In 1986 Australia was changing from hospital based training to university based, so there was a shortage of nurses to work on the wards. Bre took advantage of this and accepted a position on a cardiology ward at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. After moving to Sydney, Bre worked as an Occupational Nurse during the construction of Darling Harbour, and as a Community Nurse mainly visiting war veterans. Missing more acute nursing, Bre took on a position at Longueville Hospital working as a Registered Nurse. In 2001 Bre completed a refresher course for Acute Care Nursing at RNSH and then commenced on Ward 6B in the brown building. Over the next 6 years she completed a post grad certificate in Acute Care Nursing & gained CNS status, completed a
Masters of Nursing in Advanced care at Newcastle University, and acted in the NUM role on 6B. In 2007 Bre transferred to Ward 8C, the cardiothoracic ward. Moving from medicine to surgery was a big change, but she had great support from the senior nursing staff and was soon appointed as the Nursing Unit Manager. Bre has spent the last 21 years working at RNSH, and has worked with many amazing people from all different areas of health. From Bre: “Your helpfulness, kindness empathy and friendship I will treasure always and will miss each and every one of you. The 6B team – I miss you all the most! Good Bye and thanks for the good times.” A favourite quote of Bre’s: “People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel” (By Maya Angelou)
Tracy Morton - NUM Ward 7B
Tracy started her Nursing career at RNSH after moving to Sydney from Lismore at the age of 17. She started as a new graduate in the peri-op program, but after completing a year in theatres decided she was missing the patient interaction and took on an extra new graduate rotation in SSSU. Tracy found her passion in 12D in the Brown Building working in renal and haematology. After 2 years she moved to the UK for 2 years and worked on the renal transplant unit at Guys Hospital. After returning to Sydney Tracy commenced working on 8E and continued her career in haematology over the following 8 years. Tracy has also worked in IPAC, patient flow and was acting NUM on 6 different wards until 2020 when she was appointed as the NUM of Ward 7B.
Tracy is making a tree change and moving to Canberra.
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