Kerikeri Retirement Village has appointed a new clinical nurse manager. Jarrah Tuoro is a registered nurse with a bachelor’s degree in nursing and has worked in aged care for over 10 years. She also has experience in orthopaedic, surgical and general medical care and joins the Village from a large Aged Care facility in the Australian state of Victoria.
Jarrah leads the Village’s team of registered nurses and healthcare assistants and is responsible for all its reporting to health authorities. She ensures that the Village delivers effective, safe nursing care tailored to individual residents, all in collaboration with family or a resident’s nominated representative.
She is originally from South Auckland and spent many years as a staff nurse on the Over-65s Assessment, Treatment and Rehabilitation Ward at Middlemore Hospital. She was one of the first nurses to go through the Nurse Entry to Practice Programme, a national system to support graduate nurses in their first year of practice. She later worked as an orthopaedic nurse at Rotorua Hospital.
After moving to Australia Jarrah took a role as a general nurse in a prison which she describes as “a real eye opener” and something she won’t soon forget.
She and her partner, who also works at the Village, have returned to New Zealand to be closer to whanau.
