“Throughout history, Canada’s frontline nurses have always been highly trained, skilled, respected and compassionate.”
For someone who describes herself as having an “endless desire to learn”, nursing has provided Susan Shumay the ideal mix of challenge and reward. After years of practice as a registered nurse, including work for the federal government in northern outposts in the Yukon, Baffin Island, and Saskatchewan, Shumay completed a master’s degree to become a Nurse Practitioner. For 20 years she has been employed by the BC Women’s Sexual Assault Service (based at Vancouver General Hospital), and has worked at the Pine Community Health Clinic in Kitsilano, a clinic…read more
