Television, Bedpans, and Me
A Life Lived in the Red Centre of Australia
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When a naïve young girl grows up in a small mining in New South Wales during the Second World War, she begins her adventure when she travels to the big city of Sydney to commence her nursing training. She talks of the many adventures she encounters, as she travels around Australia during her nursing career. Her working life continues for more than fifty years in various locations in Australia, New Guinea and the Red Centre around Alice Springs. The advent of television follows her as she moves from state to state and from Sydney to the Australian Outback. This is an unforgettable story of the journey seen by one woman, showing the humorous tales, pathos and ordinary family occurrences that colour all of our lives, in between the Miracles of Modern Medicine. Her story follows the amazing growth of medicine from basic nursing in the fifties to the electronic age of today. This is a true story based on the life of a Registered Nurse and the people she has nursed and worked with for over half a century.
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Growing up in a small mining town in New South Wales, Australia, during World War II, Beverley Keegan knew that she wanted to become a nurse. Her adventures began when she traveled on an overnight train to the big city of Sydney to commence her nursing training. Once she became a nurse, her working life continued for more than fifty years in various locations in Australia, New Guinea, and the Red Centre around Alice Springs.
Television, Bedpans, and Me tells the true story of the many adventures she encountered as she traveled around Australia during her nursing career. Her story follows the amazing growth of medicine from basic nursing in the fifties to the electronic age of today. At the same time, the advent of television followed her as she moved from state to state and from Sydney to the Australian Outback.
This memoir shares the journey taken by one woman, including humorous tales, pathos, and ordinary family occurrences that colour all of our lives, while tracing the development of the miracles of modern medicine. In Television, Bedpans, and Me, Keegan lovingly recounts her experiences as a registered nurse and recalls the people she has nursed and worked with for over half a century.
About the Author
Beverley Keegan was born in New South Wales and at the age of seventeen she commenced nursing in Sydney, Australia. She has worked in many varied nursing positions. Beverley came to the Red Centre in 1962; she has lived and worked in Alice Springs for fifty years. She has one daughter and one granddaughter.