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Meet the oldest Air Ambulance Nurse in Australia

Meet the oldest Air Ambulance Nurse in Australia

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Maureen Roberts has many career highlights to share from her 32 years as Australia’s longest serving air ambulance nurse.

In a recent interview on Macquarie Media, Maureen told the story of the pilot of her aircraft passing out at the controls and how she calmly popped his oxygen mask on and brought him around enough to land the plane. And you thought your job had challenges!

Maureen began her career in the Riverina and became interested in the Air Ambulance are speaking to a fellow nurse from the service. She started her career in Albury but is now based at Mascot, near Sydney.

Another memorable moment of her career involved a premature baby in the skies over the Hunter Valley in NSW. The Air Ambulance needed to land but a FA18 Hornet on “critical fuel” took precedence. Maureen remembers saying to the Air Ambulance pilot “the fighter pilot can eject if he needs to but we can’t, we need to land”!

One of the wonderful things about her job, Maureen told us, is that every day is a different experience depending on the patients you're transporting.

“Sometimes you're taking people home to die and they know they're going to die and they have the most amazing conversations with you."

Hear the full interview with Maureen Roberts here

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manuel
manuel from NSW commented:

When will these discounts come about, and how we will go about it 

Henry
Henry from NSW replied to manuel:

Manuel: I believe that this Club will use sheer group pressure to achieve said discounts to us. I also believe this is but just one way of achieving something for us, the other one is (like I did) to become a member of The Seniors Party (www.seniorsparty.org): we will then have this group on one side continuously talking to businesses on our behalf and on the other hand The Seniors Party talking to MP's in Canberra: not a bad combination. 

james
james from NSW commented:

discounted goods 

Kay
Kay from NSW commented:

I pay $35 a year to subscribe to National Seniors Australia, there are other cos as we'll and get a card to get discounts. 

Peter
Peter from NSW commented:

My wife would also like to join, how does she join with the same email address. 

Felicity
Felicity from NSW commented:

I have three cats and my vet bills are far too high, especially with a diabetic cat. I would like to see vet. bills looked at as well. 

neville
neville from NSW commented:

I have a dog and cat and along with all other expenses ,the vet bills are way too high for pensioners,they only give a 5 or 10 %discount on consultation and medical bills.Some people can't afford to keep their pets.I feel this is something else that should be looked into. 

Colin
Colin from NSW commented:

Sorry shaky start. 

Colin
Colin from NSW commented:

How about some good advice on the medical problems of aging. Most of my compatriots seem to be spending much of their time going to busy specialists and imaging surgeries. How can we practice preventative maintenance? 

Colin
Colin from NSW commented:

Can we have some advice on preventative medicine and treatments too many of my compatriots seem to be going to a busy specialist or in assembly line surgeries or imaging centres. Surely we can minimise or prevent many of the problems of aging? 

Colin
Colin from NSW commented:

Col from the Hunter Valley. How about some advice about preventative medicine or treatments. So many of us seem to be on a round of too busy specialists and assembly line surgeries. Prevention is best? 

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