Fifty years of nursing

International Nurses Day was celebrated at Peninsula Village on May 12 with Sr Judy Paget celebrating 50 years of nursing.

Sr Paget commenced her training in 1955 at Concord Repatratriation Hospital in Sydney where she attended war injuries incurred initially from the Second World War and Korea and eventually from Vietnam as well.

Sr Paget headed the intensive care unit for 18 years and was head supervisor for 10 years.

Sr Paget moved to the Central Coast and commenced working at the Peninsula Village in 1996 where she is now the weekend supervisor at the centre, responsible for running the centre for the entire weekend.

Peninsula Village manager Ms Terri Parker presented Sr Paget with a plaque and staff gave their own gifts.

"Sr Paget has been instrumental in making the village a wonderful place for our patients to live," Ms Parker said

Sr Paget said that she was grateful to the Peninsula Village for giving her an opportunity to let her continue working as a nurse when other Central Coast institutions said she was too old.

Financial controller Mr Glen Scorer said that Sr Paget was a wonderful asset to the organisation and her age helped her empathize with the residents.

Cec Bucello, May 13