New nurses

New nursing staff, at back, from left: Ana Harap, Caitlyn Bail, Lauren Hunter, Sam
Taylor, Kelly Arnett-Somerville, Joanne Parker, Kristy Son and Nghi Quach. Middle row: Milica Ilic, Sarah Carlon, Kirsty Wallace, Gunthia Coulson, Natalie Sands, Dalin Hang and educator Alan Lacco. Front row: Renee Jenna Louey, Erin Trathen and Abra
Tompkins. 43017Picture: Donna Oates
A TEAM of newly graduated nurses and midwives has started at Dandenong Hospital.
They are among a total of 113 recently graduated nurses now involved in health care services at Southern Health sites around Melbourne’s south-east including Monash Medical Centre Clayton, Monash Medical Centre Moorabbin, the Kingston Centre, Casey Hospital and Cranbourne Integrated Care Centre.
Their arrival coincides with the International Year of the Nurse, with the theme this year of ‘honouring voices, values and wisdom’.
An additional 38 general nurses will begin their duties in April and August intakes. Twenty-three graduate midwives started last week working across three Southern Health sites including Dandenong, Clayton and Casey and will rotate into all areas of maternity services.