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Teena
Robinson- NZONA President
teena.robinson@southerncrossqe.co.nz
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Hello, my name is Teena
Robinson and it is my third year as the President of the New Zealand
Orthopaedic Nurses Association. I am a Nurse practitioner of Adult
Elective Peri-operative care with authority to prescribe. Obtaining
Nurse Practitioner status was an eight year journey which at times was
a struggle greater than I thought I could manage and at others a joy I
felt privileged to be part of. I completed my Masters in Nursing with
First Class Honors through the University of Auckland in 2006. The
topic of my research portfolio “Advancing nursing practice and
deep vein thrombosis prevention” is an area of particular
interest to me as a large number of the patients I see are under going
joint replacement and are at specific risk of venous thromboembolism.
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I currently work at Southern
Cross QE Hospital, a private surgical Hospital in Rotorua. My role as
Nurse Practitioner entails preadmission health history taking, physical
examination, education and planning, some intraoperative assisting, and
postoperative clinical management of patients. Although my patients
involve other specialties my main focus and passion is elective
orthopaedics.
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Spare time is a rare and
treasured thing that is filled by home life and family. I live with my
husband on a small life style block with beautiful views over Lake
Rotorua. We have three children between us and the required
menagerie of farm animals, cat, dogs, chooks guinea fowl and sheep. My
haven is the garden which I hide away in any chance I get. Kayaking,
motorbike riding and tramping are the other activities that I try to
squeeze in from time to time.
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NZONA aims for 2009 are to:
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Hold eight education mornings this year,
four in the North Island and four in the South.
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Hold four regional meetings in each
Island.
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Hold monthly teleconferences with
members.
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Promote the NZONA web page.
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Develop web page links to useful
orthopaedic and nursing sites.
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To promote the use of the NZONA blog on
the web page as a means to share ideas, concerns and knowledge on
orthopaedics.
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Increase the membership numbers to 100.
- Profile four orthopaedic
nurses as part of the Orthopaedic Nurses day.
- Develop a sister
relationship with Orthopaedic Nurses at Sihanouk Hosptial Centre of
Hope, Cambodia.
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