Rachael Mackinnon RN

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Rachael Mackinnon RN

Registered Nurse; Clinical Lead, Parkinson’s NSW

Registered Nurse Rachael Mackinnon is the Clinical Lead at Parkinson’s NSW, responsible for the organisation’s community-based Parkinson’s Specialist Nurses and the 1800 InfoLine which is also staffed by a Registered Nurse.

Rachael trained at Royal North Shore and has more than 30 years of nursing experience across clinical nurse education, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, and Cardiac Angioplasty.

She has worked in the UK and New Zealand in addition to Australia. Rachael is a member of the Australian Neurological Nurses Association, NSW Nurses Association, and the Movement Disorder Society both the ANZ and International chapters

Advanced therapies for Parkinson’s

Time to consider device-assisted therapies and referral to a specialist centre- options need to be offered early as the need arises rather than delayed until symptoms and conditions are unbearable.

Advanced therapies for Parkinson’s

Time to consider device-assisted therapies and referral to a specialist centre- options need to be offered early as the need arises rather than delayed until symptoms and conditions are unbearable.

By Rachael Mackinnon RN