Chelsea Bligh has ridden the pivotal life moments, failures and her own doubts to graduate and become a registered nurse.
Chelsea Bligh spent the first seven years of her life chasing four older siblings around the family's rural Queensland cattle property.
After graduating from boarding school in Rockhampton, the teenager drew on her connections to a remote Indigenous community in central Queensland.As a kid, Ms Bligh watched McLeod's Daughters and dreamt of marrying a farmer. "I started working with her and learning off her, growing connections with people in mental health," she said.
"We were short staffed at community health for a while, I then did a bit of child health stuff where I did paediatric clinics.
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