A well-qualified nursing administrator has accepted a post as Departmental Nurse Manager at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Anguilla, thus fulfilling a life-long dream to return to her native Anguilla.

Venetta Connor

She is Nurse Venetta Connor of Blowing Point, the youngest of eight children of the late Captain Chrissy and Murtle Connor. “I was planning on coming home within five years, but when the opportunity came, I took it and I am happy that I accepted the position on August 22 this year,” Miss Connor told The Anguillian. “I have found a lot of things to be done and because of that it has been challenging and rewarding at the same time.”

Her responsibilities include ensuring that nurses uphold high standards of quality care at the hospital, maintaining the required documentation; auditing the nursing services and implementing new policies as the health services are being prepared for accreditation.

“It is just a wonderful experience”, she said. “Even though I have been abroad for about 27 years, I have been physically there but mentally in Anguilla. Coming home has just been a natural part of me. Yes, the working conditions may not be what I have worked with most of my life, but I am here and part of the solution.”

Miss Connor’s patriotic zeal and love for country is a fine example for other qualified Anguillians to follow to help in national development. She has returned to the island from the United States after a number of scholastic achievements and with a wealth of experience.

She holds a double major Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing and Sociology from the University of Southeastern Massachusetts and a Master of Science degree in Health Service Administration from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. She has been working at Rhode Island Hospital from 1990 to July 2005 during which she held various positions.

Mrs. Connor worked as a Staff Nurse at a Cardiac Telemetry Unit for five years; at a Surgical Intermediate Intensive Care Unit for four years; and three years as an Intensive Care Nurse at a Cardiac Thoracic Intensive Care Unit. Over the rest of her years abroad she served as an Assistant Clinical Manager at a Surgical Telemetry Unit managing a 30-bed facility for patients whose treatments included gastric bypass, open heart surgery and other complex surgical operations.

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