Carol Cooper becomes a nurse

Auntie Carol Cooper had to choose nursing after being rejected from the army and from being a nun. She became an obstetrics nurse, which she loved, but the early years were hard. The other staff and sometimes the patients didn’t want an Aboriginal woman on the wards. She spent a lot of time cleaning bed pans. “I struggled. It was hard.”

Keywords: Identity; racism; education; working; change, attitudes

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