New nurse charts career - CQUniversity

Ready to start her journey as a registered nurse, Lauren Baguley was cheered on by the family that inspired her at CQUniversity's recent Townsville Graduation Ceremony.

After her grandmother suffered a stroke in Lauren's mid-teens, she said the impact that warm and compassionate nurses had on her family helped her to realise it was the profession for her.

"My grandmother was left with significant deficits requiring her to be placed in a nursing home," Lauren explained.

"Watching the healthcare staff assist her with her personal hygiene and meals really inspired me to choose a career that helps others, while watching the process of her medical rehabilitation really fostered my fascination for learning about the human body and pathophysiology."

While Lauren has successfully secured a graduate nursing position in an Intensive Care Unit, she is also passionate about furthering her studies with plans to establish a career in gerontology.

"I have dreams of revolutionising the way we care for the elderly so that they can have a positive quality of life and continue to have dignity at all stages of life.

"I hope to continue to study a Master of Gerontology where I can a focus of dementia and acute delirium, furthermore, a positive quality of life and having dignity when dying," she said.

"Further into my career, I hope to work in a frailty intervention outreach team, providing acute care to the elderly in their home environment.

"I would also like to undertake research about the best models of caring for people living with dementia in acute care and residential aged care facilities and implement these models of care within these environments."

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