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Enrolled nurse’s care in a suitcase

Fiona

Cassie

fcassie@nzdoctor.co.nz

Wednesday 17 August 2022, 01:52 PM

Enrolled nurse Maudie Paul-Palmer with the new wheels she uses to provide outreach care to Kensington Health practice patients [image: supplied]

On home visits, enrolled nurse Maudie Paul-Palmer takes cervical-cancer smears or changes wound dressings and, on one memorable occasion, she took a patient’s blood pressure in a pizza parlour. Fiona Cassie reports on a pioneer of the enrolled-nurse role in general practice

It’s just that same cliché, it’s giving them that awhi…letting them know that they are not alone in their journey Maudie Paul-Palmer at first was

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