With access and equality of healthcare severely affecting the health outcomes of regional Australians, it is critical that regional hospitals have access to nurses with specialised skills in cancer care. Receiving treatment locally not only improves a patient’s health outcomes but also reduces the financial and emotional burden of long distance travel.

Arrow has assisted in improving the accessibility to healthcare by supporting three nurses from Wagga Wagga, in regional NSW, with a Professor Geoffrey Driscoll scholarship in Cancer Care Studies at the Australian College of Nursing.

Klaziena Bello, one of the grateful recipients of the scholarship said to her sponsor the Driscoll family “I wanted to thank you directly for your very generous scholarship to fund my course in Chemotherapy and Other Systemic Treatment in Cancer Care and Blood and Marrow Transplantation.

I cannot thank you enough for helping me achieve my dreams within the field I am most passionate about. Knowing I will come out of this course as a more knowledgeable and confident oncology nurse, understanding the haemodynamic treatment components and options available for my patients, is a satisfaction words cannot describe.”

A satisfaction we can be assured is shared by her patients as they see a nurse from their local community skilled up to provide cancer care treatment locally.

We congratulate both Klaziena Bello, Teagan Rudwick, and Melanie Wade from Riverina Cancer Care in receiving this scholarship and give our heartfelt thanks to Mrs Jan Driscoll and her family for their support of the Professor Geoffrey Driscoll Nursing Scholarships which has helped so many nurses across the country.