Nursing student
In Maori nursing circles, Robert Taylor is a trailblazer.
He’s the only Maori male student nurse in this year’s intake at Manakau Technical Institute in Auckland. Just, five of the 96 students are men.
At the first hui of the National Council of Maori Nurses in Rotorua on April 19-21, Robert was the only delegate from Manakau Technical Institute.
He is also at 19 years the youngest member and the only student representative on the N.C.M.N. executive.
“It’ll be my job to represent Maori student nurses if they have any problems,” Robert said.
He hopes to have a hui for nurse trainees in the Auckland region before the next executive meeting.
Robert says he chose nursing as he has a great desire to help people and there aren't enough Maori nurses.
When he joined the National Council of Maori Nurses he saw it as a chance to get help from his own people who understand nursing and its training.
Robert is Tuhoe, and his sustaining philosophy is; “What you put into anything is what you get out of it.’’
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Tu Tangata, Issue 27, 1 December 1985, Page 55
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181Nursing student Tu Tangata, Issue 27, 1 December 1985, Page 55
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