Carmen Garcia, nurse, 36 years old, mother of Pedro and João. Pedro, 6 years old, is profoundly deaf with a cochlear implant.
Worked for 11 years in an SNS hospital, in the area of intensive care. In 202, left her hospital career and started to dedicate herself only to nursing in the area that is most passionate about: geriatrics.
Author of the page “the imperfect mother”, she has more than 187,000 followers on Facebook and 100,000 on Instagram. She is the imperfect nurse on Twitter (25k followers).
Columnist for Jornal Público, she is the author of the column “Whatever is not the answer” that appears every Sunday in the P2 section.
Author of three children's books: "A lesson in love", "A lesson from the sea" and "A lesson in peace", which speak, respectively, about inclusion, about ocean pollution and about welcoming refugees on land European. The first two are bestsellers in Portugal. The three books were selected to join our country's National Reading Plan.
In October 2022, edited The Fiction Book, based on real facts, “the last loneliness” that addresses old age and the institutionalization of the elderly in a way never before done in Portugal. The book is in its fifth edition.
