Pain nurse practitioner ends her legacy

New Zealand’s very first discomfort nurse professional with recommending rights is retiring after a profession in the health industry covering 33 years. Now based in Ngaruawahia, Sue King initially made her mark in 1994 with specialist anaesthetist Steve Jones as charter members of the Waikato discomfort team, with the Waikato District Health Board. “We began in surgical services but gradually ended up being rather popular and constructed a healthy reputation with medical specialists throughout the spectrum of services offered at Waikato Medical facility and throughout the DHB.” And with the help of fellow coworkers, she advanced a business case to open the role of pain nurse professional, and gotten it in 2010. “As a clinical nurse professional, I got annoyed and to a point where I couldn’t prescribe … See all stories on this topic