Hi, my name's Katie.
I'm a proud Camille Roy Gomeroy woman.
I am born and raised in the Tamworth area.
My role in primary care is as a registered nurse practise nurse in a clinical setting.
I'm so for me as a nurse, what I find rewarding is obviously I love to, I love to look after people, I love to look after mob.
I love to care for people, heal people.
It's just I see myself as as a healer and, you know, helping other people heal on there, their journey.
That's probably the biggest rewarding thing for me.
And what took me into my nursing career was that desire to want to help other people.
Yeah.
I think it's really important to see our mob representing in these sort of roles, whether it be nurse, midwife, doctors, healthcare workers, you know, to be addressing barriers and inviting people into a culturally safe space where they know that they're going to be looked after and supported by a mob.
They're going to be educated by a mob to make informed decisions about their healthcare.
I think particularly for registered nurses, there is a lot of opportunities.
There's a lot of specialty areas that you can branch into.
You know, it doesn't have to be just general nursing.
There is so many other pathways.
It sort of opens the doors for you whether you want to continue on study, whether you just want to work in a certain area, you know, you have the freedom to do that and move into different spaces.
So for anyone considering a role in primary care, I, I strongly recommend it.
Like I think we definitely need more mob in our Aboriginal medical services, in Primary Health care in general.
I really, really strongly encourage a rewarding career of like, helping our mob.