Kevin Gournay

It important to say that any success I have enjoyed in my career has, for the large part, come about because I have been ‘in the right place, at the right time, with the right people’. Definitely the right people! I first became a registered nurse 53 years ago in late 1972. My nurse training, in what could now be described as an ‘apprenticeship’ model, took place almost entirely in hospital settings, with an on-site ‘School of Nursing’.

E-mail Address: kevingournay@aol.com CBE, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatric Nursing, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, and Honorary Professor, Matilda Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, winner of the BJN 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award

ORIGINAL ARTICLE Marlee Bower, Corresponding Author Marlee.Bower@Sydney.edu.au orcid.org/0000-0002-9818-1174 Translational Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia Correspondence Marlee Bower, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.