Emergency departments and intensive care were both heavily hit with nurses leaving positions and leaving the profession during the pandemic and its aftermath.

Throughout the pandemic, Sherri Kensall worked in the hemodialysis unit at Vancouver General Hospital, helping patients with kidney disease keep to their dialysis schedule – all while being “hypervigilant” about infection protocols.

She’s been in healthcare for over 30 years, first as a sexual assault nurse, then moving to nursing in acute care, and then specializing as a renal care nurse for treating people with kidney failure.

“Getting to know patients over years and years, working with them, helping them to be healthy or helping them to be a little better than they were before, that’s really rewarding. The whole process around

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