Source: New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Two nurses at Wellington Hospital will be celebrating 100 years of full-time nursing between them at a gathering at the Hospital at 10am on Friday 8 December.
Theatre enrolled nurse Jenny Kendall has been in the profession since 1968 and has worked in Wellington Hospital for the last 48+ years. Theatre enrolled nurse Silaina Sione, originally a registered nurse from Samoa, has spent the last 52 years of her 59-year nursing career there as well.
“It’s been eight-hour days the whole time and we’ve been rotating through the shifts (mornings afternoons, evenings and week