Shirley Kennedy

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Shirley Kennedy retired from correctional nursing in June 2018. From 2013-18, she was president of RNAO's Ontario Correctional Nurses’ Interest Group.

Illustration of inmate receiving help
In the End
by: Shirley Kennedy

In 1989, i started working at a community detention centre as a correctional nurse. Up to then, I had 11 years of nursing experience, most of it in occupational health. Nothing prepared me for what I found locked away from society.