Narromine

There is an abundance of opportunities in our shire, we are blessed with 520,000 hectares of superb soils, we have underground water, we have riparian water, we have the advent of the inland rail coming, there is just no limit to what can happen in our shire. Narromine's a very good point to distribute from and set a business up to grow and those opportunities are there. 

We have our beautiful airport at our doorstep just on the outskirts of Narromine and Dubbo and we have the inland rail that's about to come and there's a lot of government money being tipped into it and its going to run right through Narromine, so we're very lucky, it could have run through a lot of towns in the central west but it's going to run right through our town so opportunities are going to be abundant.

The variety of business that service the town and the region are not limited just to agriculture there is plenty of opportunity. Professional services are also another, you know we've got an abundance of in this area and to be able to network with all these professionals, um is again a positive for the area, and one that I use a lot.

The future for us and our students is one that is technology driven, very much linked to the community and also providing our students with an opportunity for becoming citizens of Narromine which they can be proud of.

Literally when I drove in to town I looked at it and I thought, it looks like a really nice town, it had lovely trees, nice gardens and appeared to have some of the lovely things that I'd like, it has a supermarkets, coffee shops, cafes, butchers, bakers all of those things that could make life easy and it was half an hour from Dubbo, so half an hour from the convenience of a major city centre without that busy lifestyle as well.

The children can walk over the road to school, they can run down and do their after school sports in the afternoon, like you've still got that small community feel. It's small enough to be personal and wave to people and feel safe with your children in town but big enough that there's options and opportunities for anyone who comes here. Narromine is a place to make you smile.

We'd like anybody to come here, everybody is welcome.

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I came here as a new grad and I've stayed on since. I've always  enjoyed working here - one of the other reasons is that I met my husband in my new grad year - and the team environment here and getting the things I get to do is second to none - you can't get to do it anywhere else.

You can Triage our here, you can canulate, venepuncture, IDCs, SPCs you name it - we can do it out here.

I am a ward nurse generally but obviously in a rural facility I am also an accident and emergency nurse, when there's a trauma or there's a need for it. 

I also do community nursing, we also have dialysis here at this facility, I've also done dialysis nursing and obviously we have palliative patients.  We have a lot of post rehab patients, so we do a lot of wound care.

The variety is on the of the things I enjoy the most about working here, also you have aged care, you have emergency and you have your normal everyday ward work, so every day is something different and you get to experience things you wouldn't see in the city as they would be swept away to a specialist unit.

I have so many more skills my friends wish they would have but don't, they don't get the opportunity with all the junior Doctors down there in the city.

My role is virtual outreach support to the nursing staff in the district, education sessions through the video conference we support the staff because they may have a question about a medication or a procedure.   For this month in May we have approximately a hundred virtual sessions offered.

When I started working here, they supported me for triage, like how to work in a rural ED. First of all if anything comes through the ED, how to handle that, I've done a vaccination course, advanced life support, so if something happens we can administer drugs.

We have excellent support from vCare which is the speciality emergency team based in Dubbo, and all the retrieval teams they can connect us with.

Here in Nyngan we are very lucky - we have the support of our managers and usually on call RN overnight.  

Because of the diverse nursing that I do I've always been able to do those extra courses whether it be palliative care, community nursing, dialysis.

We're using this technology and this education to improve, to help our nurses, support our nurses.

I've done lots of emergency courses through the district with training days on site here or just in Dubbo or in other towns and they've help further my skills give me that confidence to be in charge.

We do have more registered nurses starting, here - New Grads - which is also very enjoyable as you get to  help them and  you learn new things off them, things they are learning at uni or they have learned in other facilities, so the team is quite diverse but in a way it is very experienced and very strong.

Working in a small rural facility again, the team is not just the nurses on the ward, its actually the whole facility. I might ring a community nurses today to get an assessment with a patient that's being discharged tomorrow, I might actually speak to the front office staff about something particular about that patient, so actually everyone is involved because it is such a small community and a small facility so my whole team is everyone including the ambulance officers who walk through the door.

They're beautiful out here, I couldn't ask for a better team, they're all lovely, all supportive, you just couldn't find any, any team like it.

In a small rural facility everyone is dependent on eachother , its teamwork - if someone comes in ED everyone comes and helps you, they know what is there role and they support us in those situations, in every situation.

I had some free accommodation over at the units for 12 months and then I brought myself a house here in town - so I'm a permanents stayer.

There s no reason not to even if you don't stay out here forever the skills you'll learn in Western LHD will be transferable back in the city and the things you'll see you'll never see anywhere else.

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