Category: Nursing

Complex care all in a day’s work for nurse Kate

For East Gippsland resident Nicole, an encounter with Bairnsdale Regional Health Service Complex Care Nurse Consultant Kate Smith was life-changing. Nicole’s health had deteriorated since moving to our region. She consulted her Melbourne GP via phone but had no GP in Gippsland. She became badly overweight, retaining a great

Bek reflects on her nursing journey and the future

For International Nurses Day (Sunday, 12 May) a senior BRHS nurse, Bek Hall, shares her family’s history with the health service, her career and what nursing might look like in the future. Bek Hall says her family shaped her decision to get into nursing, but it’s her patients, the