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Featuring #OnTheFrontline this week is Tanya. Tanya has been with QAS for 21 ye…
Featuring #OnTheFrontline this week is Tanya.
Tanya has been with QAS for 21 years, starting off as a First Responder in Proston and working her way up to a qualified Advanced Care Paramedic through the Diploma program in Rockhampton. Tanya had some whirlwind experiences whilst working in Rockhampton, with one of the highlights being meeting her current partner. Her family relocated to Bundaberg, Nanango and then to Toogoolawah where she currently resides as the Officer in Charge.
When asked why she chose this career, Tanya said “to make a difference in my community, be that big or small, city or rural, on or off duty.” Tanya says she sleeps well if she can go home and say to herself “I did everything possible to help people today.”
Tanya recalls one memorable moment of her career during the Bundaberg floods where she had to ride downstream a flooding river with crazy currents and debris in a boat, despite the fact she gets sea sick, to reach her patient who had been crushed between two boats. Tanya says she had to climb up a rope (no ladders) and then back down again after lowering the patient overboard.
Tanya said “the thing I love most about this job is the interactions with patients, family and communities. It does not matter if the job is big or small, how you treat someone is what they will remember, so everyone gets treated as if they are my family”.
Well done Tanya, the Toogoolawah community is lucky to have you.
