Celebrating our nurses: Vicki Corkish31 January 2020International Year of the Nurse & Midwife celebrates the invaluable contribution that nurses and midwifes make to global healthcare. At CAHS, we're profiling the diversity of roles and people that make up our nursing services. Meet Vicki Corkish. Vicki is a Nurse Practitioner in our Acute Pain Service and Keeping Kids in No Distress, at Perth Children's Hospital. Patience and tenacity. Before I start my day, I enjoy checking in with the international news each morning before coming to work for personal interest and global context within the medical industry. My day to day role is dynamic as the acute pain service has a global responsibility within the hospital, working with children and families to promote their comfort for a variety of pain management needs such as during procedures, following surgery, following trauma or pain related to disease and/or treatment. When not in a clinical space, the team and I are responsible for developing and maintaining guidelines, education,...