Paul McNamara
@paulmcau.bsky.social
Washed-up muso. Wannabe jetsetter living in Cairns (Gimuy). Nurse traversing a liminal space.
https://paulmc.au
https://paulmc.au
🏏4️⃣ Charging Towards the Crease on The Long Run Up To Retirement paulmc.au/the-long-run-up
10 months to go and feeling light and breezy. 🙂
10 months to go and feeling light and breezy. 🙂
Paul McNamara
it’s a bit cringe to have a website with your name in the URL, eh?
paulmc.au
July 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🏏4️⃣ Charging Towards the Crease on The Long Run Up To Retirement paulmc.au/the-long-run-up
10 months to go and feeling light and breezy. 🙂
10 months to go and feeling light and breezy. 🙂
An underestimated advantage of applying to renew credentialing with Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN) is that it forces you to update your CV
🚫🐮💩 paulmc.au/cv 🚫🐮💩
🚫🐮💩 paulmc.au/cv 🚫🐮💩
September 19, 2024 at 5:27 AM
An underestimated advantage of applying to renew credentialing with Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN) is that it forces you to update your CV
🚫🐮💩 paulmc.au/cv 🚫🐮💩
🚫🐮💩 paulmc.au/cv 🚫🐮💩
Q: Where would you find a big friendly gay bear, exotic cultural experiences, Dr Weed, and more insta-posing-and-posting than a high school formal?
A: paulmc.au/f/phuket 🌈🐻
A: paulmc.au/f/phuket 🌈🐻
Phuket
When we left Australia we weren’t really expecting to go to Phuket again - after all, we have been there twice before. However, as is the nature of make-it-up-as-you-go-travel - at some stage you have...
paulmc.au
June 8, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Q: Where would you find a big friendly gay bear, exotic cultural experiences, Dr Weed, and more insta-posing-and-posting than a high school formal?
A: paulmc.au/f/phuket 🌈🐻
A: paulmc.au/f/phuket 🌈🐻
Q: Where are you when there’s a unicorn in the swimming pool, an eerily quiet breakfast, a glammed-up golf cart being used as an ambulance, and cannabis on the pizza?
A: paulmc.au/f/phi-phi 🦄
A: paulmc.au/f/phi-phi 🦄
Phi Phi
Phi Phi is the island so nice they named it twice.
paulmc.au
June 2, 2024 at 6:11 AM
Q: Where are you when there’s a unicorn in the swimming pool, an eerily quiet breakfast, a glammed-up golf cart being used as an ambulance, and cannabis on the pizza?
A: paulmc.au/f/phi-phi 🦄
A: paulmc.au/f/phi-phi 🦄
No, it’s not a typo. There is no missing ‘w’.
The beautiful place with the soaring cliffs plunging into the clear, clean sea on the west coast of Thailand near Krabi is called Railay Beach, not Railway Beach.
🏝️ paulmc.au/f/railay 🏝️
The beautiful place with the soaring cliffs plunging into the clear, clean sea on the west coast of Thailand near Krabi is called Railay Beach, not Railway Beach.
🏝️ paulmc.au/f/railay 🏝️
Railay Beach
No, it’s not a typo. There is no missing ‘w’.
paulmc.au
May 28, 2024 at 6:14 AM
No, it’s not a typo. There is no missing ‘w’.
The beautiful place with the soaring cliffs plunging into the clear, clean sea on the west coast of Thailand near Krabi is called Railay Beach, not Railway Beach.
🏝️ paulmc.au/f/railay 🏝️
The beautiful place with the soaring cliffs plunging into the clear, clean sea on the west coast of Thailand near Krabi is called Railay Beach, not Railway Beach.
🏝️ paulmc.au/f/railay 🏝️
There were some good signs @ Ko Lipe. 🙂
🇹🇭 paulmc.au/f/ko-lipe 🇹🇭
🇹🇭 paulmc.au/f/ko-lipe 🇹🇭
Ko Lipe
Ko Lipe is a small and cute island in the most south-west corner of Thailand. We arrived by ferry from the most north-west corner of Malaysia.
paulmc.au
May 25, 2024 at 10:06 AM
There were some good signs @ Ko Lipe. 🙂
🇹🇭 paulmc.au/f/ko-lipe 🇹🇭
🇹🇭 paulmc.au/f/ko-lipe 🇹🇭
Don’t you hate it how people on holiday are always posting photos of sunsets and stuff like that?
🇲🇾 paulmc.au/f/langkawi 🇲🇾
🇲🇾 paulmc.au/f/langkawi 🇲🇾
Langkawi
Today’s not-very-good travel blog reflects on our quick trip to Langkawi - it’s a lovely little island in the most north-west corner of Malaysia.
paulmc.au
May 23, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Don’t you hate it how people on holiday are always posting photos of sunsets and stuff like that?
🇲🇾 paulmc.au/f/langkawi 🇲🇾
🇲🇾 paulmc.au/f/langkawi 🇲🇾
Online version of a presentation at today’s Nursing & Midwifery Grand Rounds @ Cairns Hospital
📺 youtu.be/PTdgKskmKkQ 📺
📺 youtu.be/PTdgKskmKkQ 📺
Nurses, Midwives and The Empathy Trap
Online version of a presentation at the Cairns Hospital Nursing & Midwifery Grand Rounds on 8 May 2024.“Nurses, Midwives and The Empathy Trap (and making sel...
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May 8, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Online version of a presentation at today’s Nursing & Midwifery Grand Rounds @ Cairns Hospital
📺 youtu.be/PTdgKskmKkQ 📺
📺 youtu.be/PTdgKskmKkQ 📺
For the benefit of those who do know the unwritten rules of being a Cairns pedestrian, here they are: smugly mansplained and (finally!) written down. 🙂
🌴🚶 paulmc.au/f/pedestrian 🌴🚶
🌴🚶 paulmc.au/f/pedestrian 🌴🚶
How to be a Cairns Pedestrian
You might think being a pedestrian in a compact, very walkable, regional city would be easy (and it is), but many people don’t follow the unwritten rules. So, for the benefit of those who do know the ...
paulmc.au
April 26, 2024 at 11:48 PM
For the benefit of those who do know the unwritten rules of being a Cairns pedestrian, here they are: smugly mansplained and (finally!) written down. 🙂
🌴🚶 paulmc.au/f/pedestrian 🌴🚶
🌴🚶 paulmc.au/f/pedestrian 🌴🚶
A PowerPoint is what you plug your toaster in to.
A Prezi is what you use if you want to engage an audience.
🌐 paulmc.au/prezi 🌐
A Prezi is what you use if you want to engage an audience.
🌐 paulmc.au/prezi 🌐
Paul McNamara
Hello & Welcome!
paulmc.au
April 20, 2024 at 12:11 AM
A PowerPoint is what you plug your toaster in to.
A Prezi is what you use if you want to engage an audience.
🌐 paulmc.au/prezi 🌐
A Prezi is what you use if you want to engage an audience.
🌐 paulmc.au/prezi 🌐
The Empathy Trap
paulmc.au/f/trap .
paulmc.au/f/trap .
The Empathy Trap
Nurses and midwives are most appreciated when people recognise the empathy which has been described as ‘inherently a function of our professions’ (Lloyd, 2022). It is difficult to imagine anyone being...
paulmc.au
March 28, 2024 at 5:08 AM
The Empathy Trap
paulmc.au/f/trap .
paulmc.au/f/trap .
Nurse Midwife Health Program Australia (NMHPA)
NMHPA = peer support and counselling for nurses, midwives and students of the professions living anywhere in Australia ✅
☎️ 1800 001 060 ☎️
🌐 nursemidwifehpa.org.au 🌐
NMHPA = peer support and counselling for nurses, midwives and students of the professions living anywhere in Australia ✅
☎️ 1800 001 060 ☎️
🌐 nursemidwifehpa.org.au 🌐
Peer support and counselling service - Nurse Midwife Health Program Australia
nursemidwifehpa.org.au
March 21, 2024 at 10:33 AM
Nurse Midwife Health Program Australia (NMHPA)
NMHPA = peer support and counselling for nurses, midwives and students of the professions living anywhere in Australia ✅
☎️ 1800 001 060 ☎️
🌐 nursemidwifehpa.org.au 🌐
NMHPA = peer support and counselling for nurses, midwives and students of the professions living anywhere in Australia ✅
☎️ 1800 001 060 ☎️
🌐 nursemidwifehpa.org.au 🌐
Jabby McJabface
paulmc.au/f/jab 💉
paulmc.au/f/jab 💉
Jabby McJabface
ICYMI: there has been a recent update to COVID-19 vaccine advice and recommendations - see www.health.gov.au for the deets.
paulmc.au
March 9, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Jabby McJabface
paulmc.au/f/jab 💉
paulmc.au/f/jab 💉
Five facts that prove that curlews are weirdos
paulmc.au/f/curlews .
paulmc.au/f/curlews .
Curlews are weirdos.
Five facts that prove that curlews are weirdos:
paulmc.au
January 28, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Five facts that prove that curlews are weirdos
paulmc.au/f/curlews .
paulmc.au/f/curlews .
Suicide rates of health professionals in Australia (2001-2017)
paulmc.au/f/rates
paulmc.au/f/rates
December 18, 2023 at 8:42 AM
Suicide rates of health professionals in Australia (2001-2017)
paulmc.au/f/rates
paulmc.au/f/rates
54% of Australia’s AHPRA-registered health workforce are nurses.
More info and data here: paulmc.au/f/nurses 📊
More info and data here: paulmc.au/f/nurses 📊
Australia’s Nurses
Data is fun, right?
paulmc.au
December 17, 2023 at 12:09 AM
54% of Australia’s AHPRA-registered health workforce are nurses.
More info and data here: paulmc.au/f/nurses 📊
More info and data here: paulmc.au/f/nurses 📊
Venice with Crocodiles
paulmc.au/f/venice 🐊
paulmc.au/f/venice 🐊
Venice with Crocodiles
Have a squiz at this photo taken today looking out from Oak & Vine to the Cairns shipping channel:
paulmc.au
December 9, 2023 at 4:47 AM
Venice with Crocodiles
paulmc.au/f/venice 🐊
paulmc.au/f/venice 🐊
Ye olde meta4RN nursing blog was started in September 2012, wrapped-up in September 2022; it yielded over 200 posts and nearly 200,000 words.
The meta4RN site was taken offline in September 2023. Now it is archived here: paulmc.au/meta4RN 🌐
The meta4RN site was taken offline in September 2023. Now it is archived here: paulmc.au/meta4RN 🌐
December 7, 2023 at 8:38 AM
Ye olde meta4RN nursing blog was started in September 2012, wrapped-up in September 2022; it yielded over 200 posts and nearly 200,000 words.
The meta4RN site was taken offline in September 2023. Now it is archived here: paulmc.au/meta4RN 🌐
The meta4RN site was taken offline in September 2023. Now it is archived here: paulmc.au/meta4RN 🌐
Dear Australian Student Nurses
(a letter of encouragement, with data and a song)
➡️ meta4RN.wordpress.com/2016/12/04/letter ⬅️
(a letter of encouragement, with data and a song)
➡️ meta4RN.wordpress.com/2016/12/04/letter ⬅️
December 2, 2023 at 9:05 AM
Dear Australian Student Nurses
(a letter of encouragement, with data and a song)
➡️ meta4RN.wordpress.com/2016/12/04/letter ⬅️
(a letter of encouragement, with data and a song)
➡️ meta4RN.wordpress.com/2016/12/04/letter ⬅️
Poolification (a 1999 storybook)
paulmc.au/f/pool 🏊♂️
paulmc.au/f/pool 🏊♂️
Poolification (a 1999 storybook)
Back in ye olde days, when Blogs were just a pup and before Facebook, Twitter, Instagram et al were invented, if you wanted to share a story you had to use pen and paper and photos printed via the loc...
paulmc.au
November 25, 2023 at 9:20 AM
Poolification (a 1999 storybook)
paulmc.au/f/pool 🏊♂️
paulmc.au/f/pool 🏊♂️
Christmas on the Paediatric Ward is starting a bit early this year! 🎅 #Cairns #CairnsHospital #Christmas
November 23, 2023 at 7:14 AM
Christmas on the Paediatric Ward is starting a bit early this year! 🎅 #Cairns #CairnsHospital #Christmas
If you lived here you could walk to work*
www.realestate.com.au/property-apartment-qld-cairns+city-143679792
*if you work at Cairns Hospital or in town, that is
www.realestate.com.au/property-apartment-qld-cairns+city-143679792
*if you work at Cairns Hospital or in town, that is
www.realestate.com.au
November 20, 2023 at 7:06 AM
If you lived here you could walk to work*
www.realestate.com.au/property-apartment-qld-cairns+city-143679792
*if you work at Cairns Hospital or in town, that is
www.realestate.com.au/property-apartment-qld-cairns+city-143679792
*if you work at Cairns Hospital or in town, that is
Identity (Badge) Crisis
Having a clean up at home, and stumbled across old work ID badges from the late 80s until current. What the pics lack in flattery they make up for in giggles/mockery/nostalgia.
I’ve added 15 of them to my online CV: paulmc.au/cv 😬
Having a clean up at home, and stumbled across old work ID badges from the late 80s until current. What the pics lack in flattery they make up for in giggles/mockery/nostalgia.
I’ve added 15 of them to my online CV: paulmc.au/cv 😬
November 4, 2023 at 8:18 AM
Identity (Badge) Crisis
Having a clean up at home, and stumbled across old work ID badges from the late 80s until current. What the pics lack in flattery they make up for in giggles/mockery/nostalgia.
I’ve added 15 of them to my online CV: paulmc.au/cv 😬
Having a clean up at home, and stumbled across old work ID badges from the late 80s until current. What the pics lack in flattery they make up for in giggles/mockery/nostalgia.
I’ve added 15 of them to my online CV: paulmc.au/cv 😬
Bessie D’Cow lived in with us at our apartment in Cairns City from January 2012 to October 2023: paulmc.au/bessie 🐄
October 22, 2023 at 12:36 AM
Bessie D’Cow lived in with us at our apartment in Cairns City from January 2012 to October 2023: paulmc.au/bessie 🐄
Nearly all of the places listed here: paulmc.au/f/numbers are small Aborigine and Torres Strait Islander settlements hundreds of kilometres north of Cairns.
The narrative that the only people supporting the referendum were ‘inner city elites’ is complete frogshit.
The narrative that the only people supporting the referendum were ‘inner city elites’ is complete frogshit.
October 19, 2023 at 6:47 PM
Nearly all of the places listed here: paulmc.au/f/numbers are small Aborigine and Torres Strait Islander settlements hundreds of kilometres north of Cairns.
The narrative that the only people supporting the referendum were ‘inner city elites’ is complete frogshit.
The narrative that the only people supporting the referendum were ‘inner city elites’ is complete frogshit.