Lydia Mainey: Season 1, Episode 10

CQUniversity Podcast - Greatvine

This week we chat with CQUni's Nursing lecturer from Cairns Dr Lydia Mainey. We hear how she studied her undergraduate nursing degree through CQUni and later worked in emergency nursing in Australia and abroad. We learn that after some great 'working holiday' experiences in the UK and Northern Ireland, she signed up with the British Military and naively shot off into Iraq to work in a military hospital (but not before a Robbie Williams concert) - Ha! Not ready to come home, we hear how she took off to Canada - 600km from the Arctic Circle - to work at a first nation's health clinic, igniting her love of public health nursing and learning a lot about what you can and cannot do in minus 50-degree temperatures. Finally, we learn about her passion to see women returning to the workplace, re-registering as nurses, thanks to a revamped nursing course at CQUni.