Nursing Staff

Nursing staff have, from the very beginning, played a vital role in the provision of cardiology services at Wellington Hospital. 
Mentioned elsewhere is the provision of early recording of electrocardiograms by Sisters Muriel Tattersall, Joan Stevenson-Wright and Sheila Carmody.   In the section on the Hypertension Clinic, I refer to the significant part played by Sister Doris Gayne.

It is in the wards that nurses have traditionally contributed most and it has been impossible for me to identify all nurses who looked after cardiology patients.  Such patients were initially housed in general wards, and even after the move to the Seddon Wing, ward 22 housed both cardiology and renal patients who were cared for by the same nursing team.   The CCU had its own nursing staff, although in the early years, the nurse in charge was the Ward Sister, ward 22.   In the Seddon Block (ward 22) era, successive ward sisters were:
    Wendy Evans (nee Couchman)
    Annette McKenzie
    Diana Bridge
    Annette McKenzie
    Carol Tonks
    Stephanie Sullivan (nee Nurse)
    Marilyn Odinot
    Sue Amies
    Jasmine Plimmer

Staff Nurses and Charge Nurses in the CCU had frequently completed the PG course in Intensive Care (ICU, CCU, NNU and Cardiothoracic).