Gail Yarran, a Ballardong and Wadjuk woman from Quairading in Western Australia, is Australia’s top nurse.
Ms Yarran has taken out the HESTA Nursing and Midwifery Award for 2018 Nurse of the Year. The HESTA gong is Australia’s biggest nursing award. Ms Yarran, an important part of the maternal child health team at the Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service in Perth, is a highly regarded nurse practitioner and community rolemodel.