I qualified as a nurse in New Zealand, and first worked in the community as an agency nurse in Southwest London in 1992 while doing my OE (overseas experience), and I have been in the primary care sector ever since. I started as a community nurse before becoming a district nurse team leader and then in 1998 a tissue viability nurse (TVN). I’ve continued to work as a wound specialist nurse and am still ‘overseas’, but now in Aarhus, Denmark, where I’ve been the last 15 years. Today, I work in a team of four wound specialist nurses tasked with improving wound management for patients in a variety of community settings.