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I’m Jess Crough.
I do a school-based traineeship in assistant in nursing.
I started this this year, in Year 11.
I’m Sally Wood. I’m from Carinya Christian School.
And I’m doing Certificate III in Health Services.
So at the end of my two-year program,
I’ll be an assistant in nursing.
Can you just put your arm out for me, please, nice and straight?
SALLY: I’ve always had an interest in caring for people,
so then when I did work experience, I knew that I wanted to do it.
And then Tamara actually offered me the traineeship.
Well, doing this school-based traineeship,
you have the two years of assistant in nursing.
When you go into university
you know all the basic two years of the skills.
All you need to learn then is the registered nurse part.
SALLY: On a normal day we come in and do handover,
so we get told, like, what patients are in at the hospital,
like, what we need to do for them for that day.
Then we go around and check that everyone’s out of bed for breakfast
and then do showers and things like that.
The first day I actually started,
they put me straight into showering people.
It was...yeah, you know, I wasn’t ready for that, but it was really good.
Like, you’ve all got to start somewhere.
We don’t want to necessarily,
like, keep our patients here for a long time
but if they’re here for a short or long amount of time,
then I like to make it enjoyable for them.
It is scary ’cause you see, like, the pain they’re going through
and what they’re suffering, so it does make you really sad.
Some days you go home and think, you know,
“Well, how can I go back and do this again?”
But every other day, the enjoyment of coming in,
like, sort of seeking the reward in the task
and going home and knowing that you’ve helped someone,
and sort of really saved someone’s life
and kept them there for their family,
it really pushes you to keep going and doing it.
I love doing it because I care for people, so that’s why.
I see so many bubbly people all the time.
Yeah, I’m really happy that I took the traineeship.
I don’t know what I’d be doing without it, really. (LAUGHS)