Gilgandra

I'm Isabella Dark and I'm a Registered Nurse at Gilgandra MPS.

I am a new graduate Registered Nurse, I finished uni last year. So I did 6 months at Dubbo Base Hospital and 6 months out here at Gilgandra, so that's a supported program that we do for our first year out of uni, just so we can get our competencies marked off and learn the skills in a safer environment.

I moved from Wollongong at the beginning of the year to Dubbo. I've really enjoyed being out in the country, it's quite relaxed, everyone's really nice, I've made lots of friends, no traffic - that's good. Yeah, just really love how relaxed it is, how easy going and just really loving that change from the city and the busyness of that.

[Sonia Bonham - Gilgandra Hospital, Regional Nurse Education Western NSW LHD]

The modules, uh it's a framework so if someone entered into our facility and was starting the ARGN program, they would enrol online through My Health Learning and get access to a workbook and some learning modules and some videos and when they were happy that they understood the content then an educator like myself or a CNE would come out to the sites and we'd work one-on-one and just go through their understanding of that and do a verification to make sure that they're at a standard a level of adept, that then provided them with these skills to be able to work autonomously in our facilities, but part of a team.

[Isabella Dark - Registered Nurse, Gilgandra Hospital]

It's an amazing change. I didn't think that I would like it at the beginning but moved out here and within a month I knew that I wanted to stay and not go home, so just branch out and have a go. It's easy to make friends, get involved in the community. It's great, everyone's welcoming, it's a great change so if you're considering it, do it.

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This is a music and visual video showing the Gilgandra event 'A night under the gums' featuring food and drinks and live music under the gum trees beside the river.

A music and visual video showing a flyover of the Gilgandra Multipurpose site and adjoining retirement living options.

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Gilgandra NSW

It's very important to engage with the Gilgandra community, today is part of the indigenous reconciliation week specifically, it is an opportunity to engage with the community generally’ but we do have a theme out here today which is focusing on the indigenous community which has large numbers in this area

National Reconciliation Week which we're very proud to support in both the Air Force and the ADF in general is looking to bridge the gap between indigenous communities and modern Australian life and find ways through respect and mutual understanding that we can all live together as one.

The people are very supportive, they're inquisitive they want to ask lots of questions lots of funny ones always get asked at the pedo probes or machine guns - it's one that comes up every time, but days like this allow us to actually come out and face to face with the people that we fly over on a regular basis

It's actually quite humbling to come out and see how well you are received.

This was a great opportunity to follow a cultural protocol which is which goes back 80,000 years or welcome the country and getting that official welcome from one of the elders here is massive its massive energize that air force cares about the indigenous protocols.

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