Emily graduated with a Bachelor of Nursing in 2010 and keeps a home-base in Adelaide, South Australia. She has worked at the Adelaide Metropolitan Children’s Hospital and The Women’s and Children’s Hospital working in general medical wards and haematology/oncology.
In 2015, she volunteered overseas and spent the following five years working, volunteering, studying and traveling the world with nursing at the core of everything she did. In 2018, she worked as a paediatric nurse consultant at the Lyell McEwin Hospital in South Australian.
Emily has completed a Diploma in Tropical Nursing at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK and soon after, was offered a 6-month contract in Sierra Leone. Her role in Sierra Leone was to teach and support nursing staff in an emergency triage, assessment and treatment program where she successfully reduced paediatric mortality and morbidity through the training program she oversaw.
Emily is the founder of Gandharba Health Projects Adelaide Incorporated – a non-government organisation that supports international and local staff working in remote Napali villages to teach basic hygiene and sanitation, women’s health, men’s health and family planning.
Currently, Emily is completing a Masters in Advanced Nursing Practice and shares her nursing experiences on her blog, www.emilyanneyoung.com