{"id":2144,"date":"2012-08-17T02:47:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T16:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:48:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:48:37","slug":"darren-pickering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/darren-pickering\/","title":{"rendered":"RCH nurse earns hero title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/08\/17\/darren-pickering\/untitled-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2150\" title=\"Untitled\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/08\/Untitled-210x160.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Yesterday\u00a065-year-old Joan Jenkins phoned 3AW searching for the nurse that saved her life a month ago. Joan told host Neil Mitchell that she&#8217;d suffered a heart attack on a footpath in the country town of Yarrawonga and a man who\u00a0she knew\u00a0only as &#8216;Darren&#8217; managed to stabilise her and accompanied her to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery Good Samaritan was later identified as Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital long serving nurse Darren Pickering. Darren was humble in the media spotlight and said he hoped anyone else would do the same thing if they were in\u00a0his situation. After speaking with Joan on 3AW Darren said it was &#8220;lovely to hear she&#8217;s doing well&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d just like to thank him very very much for the help. I didn\u2019t even get to see him,\u201d Joan told radio host Neil Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>Click below to watch the Ten News story on Darren.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/47989919\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long serving Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital nurse Darren Pickering is the &#8216;mystery Good Samaritan&#8217; who saved a woman&#8217;s life in Yarrawonga last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}