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About Me — Wound Warrior
A Nursing leader who is passionate, caring — healing the world one wound at a time…
I was born in the late 1970’s in South Australia, where I have lived all of my life to date. I was born to a mixed heritage family — First-generation Australian Italian and fourth-generation Australian.
What’s in a name?
The name Wound Warrior is a culmination of my professional interests and my cultural heritage.
Hailing from an Italian background, my surname (Guerriero) translates directly to the English word — Warrior.
As a male product of the late 70’s and early 80’s, holding a surname that was essentially ‘warrior’ was pretty damn cool. It certainly lent to my testosterone-fueled childhood fantasies of being an armour-clad weaponised champion of justice!
We can blame that on many years of a Saturday morning of cartoons such as He-Man, Thundercats, Transformers and Voltron.
Childhood gallivanting bravado aside, my father’s Italian namesake grew to lend a source of pride and ironic poetry to my eventual settling into the profession of nursing — perhaps the furthest from a warrior one might possibly become! Yet I threw myself into the fight for public health like any soldier — keen to make a…
