May 12, 2014
After almost five decades in nursing, Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service (DDHHS) Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery Services, Ms Judy March, is now looking towards retirement.
“With celebrations for International Nurses Day happening this week it seemed like a fitting time to make the announcement,” Ms March said.
“I have had 48 years in the profession, the last 14 of those in Toowoomba.”
In 2000, after spending the previous 20 years working at the Gold Coast Hospital, Ms March started at Toowoomba Hospital as Director of Nursing (DON) and District Director of Nursing.
In the ensuing years the position has evolved to become Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery Services for the Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service, which includes all hospitals in the South Burnett.
“To become a DON was a professional goal and has been the pinnacle of my nursing career, so when I had the opportunity to come to Toowoomba I jumped at it,” she said.
DDHHS Chief Executive Dr Peter Bristow said Ms March would leave very large shoes to fill when she retired in a few months time.
He said recruiting to find a new Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery Services would begin soon.
