Nurse inspired by her patients

Sept. 8, 2012, midnight

Contact with amazing and inspiring breast cancer patients and their families is the best part of the job for newly appointed McGrath Breast Care Nurse Vanessa Hyland.

Ms Hyland has been working one day a week at the Dubbo Community Health Centre for the past five years with Specialist Breast Care Nurse Margie Collins.

Thanks to funding from the McGrath Foundation Ms Hyland now works four days a week as a McGrath Breast Care Nurse.

Based at Dubbo Community Health Centre Ms Hyland has over 18 years experience and became a specialist breast care nurse in 2000.

She will provide additional physical, psychological and emotional support for families experiencing breast cancer, from the time of diagnosis and throughout treatment.

"My favourite part of the job is definitely the contact with the ladies and their families," she said.

"They are amazing people and definitely inspiring."

Everyday on the job is different, according to Ms Hyland, who completes tasks such as visiting women who are having surgery or undergoing treatment at the oncology unit, to making follow up phone calls to clients who live in smaller towns surrounding Dubbo.

Thanks to the funding provided by the McGrath Foundation more frequent visits will be able to be made by Ms Hyland and Ms Collins to smaller towns that Dubbo services such as Nyngan, Coonamble, Coonabarabran, and Cobar, to name just a few.

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