Nursing and Midwifery Contacts

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This page contains contacting details of West Coast Nursing and Midwifery key-people and departments.

Contacting Details

Nursing & Midwifery Key Contacts

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Director of Nursing and Midwifery

• Karyn Kelly

  

  Karyn Kelly began her nursing career at the West Coast District Health Board in 1991, following the completion of her Registered Nurse training at the Wellington Polytechnic School of Nursing.
  Karyn completed her BN through Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology in 2001 and is currently completing a Master of Nursing through Otago University. A varied career within the DHB has included paediatrics, surgical, aged care, medical, critical care, occupational health, clinical nurse specialist: cardiology, and Associate Director of Nursing: Clinical Practice Development.
  Karyn is Director of Nursing and Midwifery.

   

Associate Director of Nursing, Mental Health

• Anne Tacon RN, RpdN, MHealSc (Mental Health)

  

  Anne has 28 years in mental health nursing, 6 delivering Mental Health specific education at both undergraduate and post graduate levels.
  Areas of expertise: assessment and crisis management, acute management of mental illness, MH triage.
  Clinical experiences includes working with 3 different psychiatric emergency teams, CMH nursing, psychiatric prison nursing, acute MH nursing.
  Roles have included Associate Director of Nursing MH, Clinical Charge Nurse, Clinical Nurse Educator, Clinical Nurse Leader, DAO.
  Geographically mobile I have previously worked for Canterbury , Counties Manukau, Auckland, and Lakes DHBs.
  Mental Health nursing on the Coast offers a less specialist approach which requires nurses to develop a broader range of skills.

   

Nurse Manager, Community Services and Primary Health South

• Maureen Frankpitt RGON Adv.Dip. Nsg. BA

  

  Nurse Manager, Community Services and Primary Health South a large role that includes a wide mix of services extending from Greymouth to Haast.
  
  This includes leading staff from the following areas:

  • Rural Nurse Specialists
  • District Nurses
  • Clinical Nurse Specialists
  • Public Health Nurses
  • Practice Nurses
  • Smoking Cessation Consellors
  • Dental Therapists
  • Vision and Hearing Technician
  • B4School Check Coordinator
  • Immunisation
  • Immunisation and Immunisation Outreach Service
  • South Westland Area Practice
  • Greymouth Medical Practice
  • Rural Academic General Practice (RAGP)

   

Associate Director of Nursing North

• Barbara Smith, RN. BN. PG Dip N. MN

  

  Barbara Smith was a Registered Nurse in Hawkes Bay prior to moving to Murchison as the Charge Nurse Manager in 2002 then to Reefton Health in 2008 as Clinical Services Manager and recently also Associate Director of Nursing North.
  A varied career has included intensive care, emergency, district, medical and rural nursing providing on call for PRIME and in-hospital accident and medical emergencies. Barbara completed her BN in 1996 at Hawkes Bay Polytechnic and a Master of Nursing degree in 2007 through Massey University.

   

  Clinical Midwifery Manager

• Judith Bruce RGON, RM, ADN, Proficiency Certificate in OBS and GYNAE - Otago Medical School; International Lactation Consultant

  

  Judith is our Clinical Midwifery Manager. She covers a large geographical area Karamea to Haast, coordinates maternity care for the entire West Coast and has established and maintained a Lead Maternity continuity of care midwifery system for twelve years.