#WeAreNorthern

Meet Erin Edwards, Nurse Unit Manager, Ward 21.

What is your coffee order?

Skinny cap please!

How long have you worked at Northern Health, and in what roles?

I’ve been with Northern for over 17 years. Fourteen of those years have been spent working as an ANUM, and now as a part-time NUM on Ward 21. I’ve moved across a few different wards in this time, mostly medicine, with a stint in ED.

What are the best things about working at Northern?

The friendships I’ve made. Some of my best friends are other nurses I’ve met while working here. The friendships you make while caring for vulnerable patients are really special and unique. You care for and support each other, while caring for and supporting your patients.

What is your most prized possession?

I’d say my most prized possession, besides my three beautiful children, is the jewellery I inherited from my Mum when she passed. Something that will now become our family heirloom.

Do you live by any particular mantra?

A mantra I live by would be Que Sera Sera- “Whatever will be, will be.”  You can’t sweat the small stuff.

What is something not many people know about you?

I have really curly hair. I wear my hair straight every day, and my team were shocked to see me with my ringlets one day, they all thought I’d gotten a perm!

What are some of the things on your bucket list?

Go to Ireland to see where my family comes from, with a stopover in the Maldives to relax.

To see the Western Bulldogs win a grand final was always on my bucket list – but I ticked this one of in 2016! Another one would be nice… but I don’t like our chances this year!

Erin at the 2016 AFL Grand Final