Oksana - Senior Cardiology Nurse

Oksana began her nursing career in Russia and the Ukraine, training in Moscow, before moving to Argentina with her family in 1995. In Buenos Aires she not only learnt to speak Spanish (to add to Russian and English), but also gained a Certificate in Management.       Oksana and her family came  to New Zealand in 2000, and she began working as a staff nurse at Green Lane Hospital in 2001,  after gaining the necessary NZ nursing qualifications. She is fully registered with the NZ Nursing Council.  She has extensive cardiac nursing experience, particularly in the areas of  heart failure, diagnostic and interventional cardiac procedures,   and care of patients pre- and post-cardiac transplantation.       She has continued her nursing education with post-graduate study in evidence based nursing, cardiac nursing and health assessment at the Auckland University Nursing School, together with hospital study days, cardiac conferences and Nursing Council forums.     Oksana, her husband and two teenage children are happily settled in Auckland after their wanderings. They enjoy living close to Cornwall Park, and morning walks around the mountain.

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