“If you kick me out of the door, I will enter from the window,” this is how the first Nurses Syndicate President, Victoria Karadsheh, reacted to the health minister’s threat to kick her out because of her insistence on defending nurses’ rights.
Karadsheh was born in Madaba in 1920. She once broke her foot during her childhood, an accident that left her in Amman’s Italian Hospital for several days. It was during this period that she became interested in nursing, and was deeply influenced by the humanitarian aspect of the job.
She graduated from nursing school in Gaza in 1954, worked two years there and then spent three years heading the nurses surgical department at a hospital in Hebron.
She returned in the early 1960s to work as head of nurses in all hospitals across Jordan. But her mother disliked her job, which involves staying out late and being absent from home for several days, unlike her farmer father who encouraged her.
Karadsheh was elected as president of Nurses Syndicate in 1972, becoming the first female syndicate president and the first nursing syndicate president in Jordan. It is worth noting that this syndicate was the second nurses syndicate in Arab world after that of Syria. 
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