Emma McTavish is the local nurse of Newtown. She is called in to care for Lionel Cosgrove's sick and dying Mother after she eats her own ear and a large German Shepherd. Lionel's Mother dies, and Nurse McTavish has to deliver the bad news to her son. As she's comforting the weeping Lionel, his Mother returns from the dead and attacks the Nurse, tearing her neck to the point of her head dangling limply behind her shoulders. The Good Nurse becomes a zombie that Lionel must take care of, along with his mother. As more zombies begin joining the group, Nurse McTavish falls in love with a certain Father McGruder, and they have a child together. Nurse McTavish escapes in the finale to help her brood attack Uncle Les and his party guests. She meets her demise at the hands of Lionel, ground to paste by his lawnmower whilst passionately making love to her zombie sweetheart.