Louis Burke | Culture | Contact
Local nurse Zara Shipmen (35) has taken to social media as part of a bold and daring campaign to remind her friends and followers she is, in fact, a nurse.
Having worked as a nurse for ten years, Shipmen appreciates that social media is a place for her to share photos of her cat, videos about cheese restaurants and memes about nursing that remind her friends that she is a nurse and that nursing is hard and important.
“Do you know what, I’ve got a friend who’s a teacher that reckons she’s got it hard!” laughed Shipmen.
“Haha, alright love, tell me all about it during the two weeks of holiday you just started!”
After a frantic day of restraining a junkie, being yelled at by no less than 12 baby boomers and stopping a man from bleeding to death, Shipmen likes nothing more than to unwind by posting on social media about how she got paid less than a doctor to do all of that today.
“You don’t see doctors sharing memes about their job, do you? It’s because everybody already respects doctors and they’re too busy playing golf anyway!”
Shipmen plans to eventually post something on social media that is unrelated to her job but will only do so once the hospital she works at is not short staffed and the working nurses receive a fair pay increase.
“So don’t hold your breath! Otherwise, I might have to come save you! Hang on, sharing that.”
