Keith Paroa Curry is notable as the first male nurse in New Zealand

New Zealand

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's Plunket

Plunket Society

The Royal New Zealand Plunket Society is an incorporated society in New Zealand which provides a range of health services to healthy babies and young children...

 service. On May 23, 2005 the Northland Polytechnic-trained bilingual nurse with 10 years nursing experience started work at the Plunket Society

Plunket Society

The Royal New Zealand Plunket Society is an incorporated society in New Zealand which provides a range of health services to healthy babies and young children...

, New Zealand's century-old maternal health

Maternal health

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 organisation.

In May 2010 Curry was sentenced to a year in prison for internet grooming a 14-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl between June and September 2009. Curry was also disciplined in 2011 for giving a pregnant woman inappropriate drugs in July 2009. Neither occurred while he was working for Plunket. Curry has been struck off the nurse's register under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal

Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal

The Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand hears and determines disciplinary proceedings brought against health practitioners....

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