After working as an ER nurse, I was done. Then I discovered the magic of a small town practice – CBC
I became a nurse practitioner, then built my own holistic practice in an Alberta village
Jul 07, 2025
When people ask me what it was like to work as an ER nurse during the pandemic, I always lie.
I tell them the worst part was being mandated to work by my employer, the isolation or the masks. I don’t think they want to know the truth.
Because the truth is that the hardest part about the pandemic was listening to someone who was struggling to breathe, say their last clipped sentence: “Can you tell my daughter I love her?”
Perhaps I didn’t fully appreciate how fractured our health-care system was until March 2020.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/first-person-nurse-practitioner-1.7364282
