Staff Profiles - Nurses
- Paulette Brownlee
- Paulette joined us at the Vet Club in Sept 2007 after spending the past 5 years working as a small animal nurse in the UK. She qualified from Unitec in Auckland in 1997 so has over 10 years experience. She enjoys the outdoors and is enjoying the lifestyle offered in Rotorua. In her spare time she can be found tramping, cooking and sketching.
- Patricia Gleason
- Patricia joined the Vet Club in January 2009 after completing a Diploma in Veterinary Nursing from Massey University. Originally from the USA, she has spent 15 years working in the biodiversity conservation field before moving to New Zealand to become a Vet Nurse. She has experienced working in zoos in the UK and Cameroon, but is enjoying building solid nursing skills with our small animal clients. She has also taken over co-ordinating the in-house lab work for the large animal vets. You may see her biking around the lake on her commute to and from work or hiking along one the Rotorua’s many walking trails.
- Isabella Felber
- Isabella completed her Diploma in Veterinary Nursing at Massey University in 2007. She has 2 years experience working as a vet nurse in a busy large and small animal practice in Opotiki. Having grown up in the country, Isabella is looking forward to the city life in Rotorua and a great new challenge joining the team at the Vet Club. When she is not at work, Isabella can be found riding her dirt bike with the lads or enjoying a break at the beach.
- Anita Marshall
- Anita has been with The Vet Club as a senior small animal nurse for over 3 years. She completed her nurse training at Tauranga in 1996 and has since spent several years working at the SPCA in Sydney, Australia before returning to NZ to join us at the vet club. She loves helping sick and injured animals and really enjoys her job in the small animal clinic at Rotorua. Her hobbies include mountain biking and walking her GSD, Astra. Anita runs the puppy preschool at our Rotorua clinic weekly on a Thursday night.
- Louise Hill
- Meet Louise Hill, our new veterinary nurse at the Ngongotaha Clinic. Louise joined us in February 2009 having completed her Veterinary Nursing training at Tauranga in 2000. She brings a wealth of experience with her having initially worked for five years at a busy mixed veterinary practice in Putaruru, Waikato then two years at a small animal and equine practice in Perth, Australia. With her special interest in animal behaviour, Louise is responsible for running our puppy preschool classes. Louise enjoys the outdoors especially helping out on her family sheep and beef farm and is a keen horse rider.