YOUR HACSU DELEGATES CHERYL BONE
Queen Victoria Care
TOM MACINTOSH Healthscope
I get up, make a coffee with breakfast, water the garden, have a quick gym sesh, cycle to work and get the nursing handover. 0800 meds with some banter. 1000 obs, banter. Patient showers. Banter. Discharges and admissions and somewhere along the way sneak a morning tea and lunch break. Cycle home, yoga, garden, cook then chill. I’ve been nursing for the past 8 years in remote NSW, Sydney and Hobart. I became a delegate in 2020 because team is what it’s all about and I’m proud to be a fair voice advocating for good culture and a healthy workplace. As a delegate, I’d like to support those I represent and be someone they can turn to for help and advice. I have a strong interest in business and economics, so pair this with my nursing background and in the future I’d like to explore a pathway to becoming a health economist. My hobbies include fishing, gardening and studying the share market and economics. I work in catering at Queen Victoria Care and my average working day is busy and lots of thinking 'have I done this?' 'have I done that?' from start to finish! I've been there close to 8 years and before Queen Vic I worked in retail at Bridges Bros and Williams The Shoemen.
COVID-19 hasn’t been without frustrations as my family live on the mainland so it was a zoom Christmas, but there is heaps to be positive about, we live in a wonderful country with a wonderful healthcare system and on any one day of the week there are many people and interactions to be grateful for.
Having been a HACSU member for about 5 years I became a delegate in 2020 because I'm passionate about workers' rights. I'd like to achieve a stronger knowledge of those and of how as a group we can overcome the fear of punishment by standing up for our rights. My hope for the workplace in the future is that we can all work together as one rather than being segregated as 'them' and 'us'. Outside of work my fave thing is spending time with my grandchildren and getting away with the caravan. The hardest thing for me in 2020 was not being able to spend time with my young-at-heart elderly mum, and seeing her staying at home in lockdown was heart wrenching as she's very active. If one positive thing has come out of COVID-19 it's to cherish what you have now and don't dwell on the past.
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