RNSH Nursing and Midwifery Newsletter - AprilandMay

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Royal North Shore Hospital Nursing and Midwifery

Staff Profile of the Month! - Helen Walker — NUM

1. How long have you been in the nursing profession?

I started my training at RNSh in April 1978. I have worked most of my career in Intensive Care

2. What are three things that you are most proud of about your profession?

How we can influence the quality of care delivered to people when they are at their most vulnerable

5. Best travel destination you have visited and why?

It helps to develop a fabulous sense of humour

Maldives and Sri Lanka. I have visited there a couple of years ago with my adult daughter. We loved searching for bargains and the time spent in The Maldives was amazing!

Working with a dynamic group of people that become more than just a team

3. What would you have been if you had not done nursing?

6. If you were to invite five people to dinner, who would you choose?

I would loved to have done something in home decorating or design. I love nothing better than a DIY project.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Anna Wintour

4. What is your best nursing story?

Lady Dianna

Nancy Bird Walton

The most fun I had was when I worked in a locked adolescent psychiatric unit in Sacramento, when I was doing Post Grad. Everyone should study psychiatry in the US!

Gladys Berejiklian

7. Please nominate the next senior nurse or midwife to appear in next month’s article:

Karina Reay NUM 6F

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