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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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Valerie
Valerie from VIC commented:

Health Insurance better designed or all age groups. Like the idea of no claim bonus! Interested to see what offers you come up with aimed at people who are also doing ok but heading towards retirement hoping to enjoy life without struggle. 

Angela
Angela from NSW commented:

To reduce private health insurance premiums through a 'no claim bonus' incentive. 

Margaret
Margaret from NSW commented:

Reduction on all insurances house and contents, car, health fund all have risen dramatically. Always check with several companies for pricing of insurance and call back chosen one for a better deal it will generally work. 

GREG
GREG from NSW commented:

TO REDUCE ALL INSURANCE PREMIUMS 

Anne
Anne from NSW commented:

Savings on utilities and insurance 

Graeme
Graeme from NSW commented:

Savings on various bills and insurances due to people power, in other words discounted deals for which members will support and keep going. 

gi
gi from NSW commented:

Definately need more say with a discount on home and content insurance - it is soooooo exoensive! 

GABRIELLE
GABRIELLE from NSW commented:

Making large organisations realise that (a) it's easy to obtain clients but harder to keep them and (b) start thinking of the customer and not the shareholder (see Suncorp's Annual Report). Without customers, no company, nothing for the shareholders. Remember what the NSW Transport Minister did in the mid '80s. Reduced the fares considerably but doubled the patronage. There's something to be learnt from that. 

Robert
Robert from NSW commented:

Private Health up every year above the so called inflation rate, Home & Contents as well and Electricity and Gas a complete joke. 

Philip
Philip from NSW commented:

Collective buying power and loyalty discounts. For example, we been with NRMA for home contents insurance for the past 26 years and over that time it has never gone down. In today's dollars we have spend in the order of $48,000 and we have had one claim of $3,100. 

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