In this episode we chat to the 2022 Nurse Practitioner of the Year no less – Peter Jenkin.

Peter’s nursing career and commitment to palliative care starts well before last year’s award from the Australian College of Nurse Practitioners.

For 11 years, and only up until recently he was a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner for Resthaven aged care in South Australia. However, in early 2023, Peter moved to Canberra to take up a position with Calvary Health Care as a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner working in aged care and at the ACT’s hospice, Clare Holland House.

With aged care and health reform more broadly high on the Government's agenda, Peter has some clear advice on how Nurse Practitioners can be better utilised to deliver quality of life but is strident in his view that “palliative care should be everyone's business.”