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Clarice Shen
Profiled Nurse
Clarice Shen
Three things you didn't know about
She is a yoga instructor.
She is severely allergic to cats, but owns one (thanks to different medications).
She is married to a nurse.
PHOTO: Kevin van Paassen, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Clarice Shen finds her passion and confidence while caring for Canada’s first COVID-19 patient.
It was like any other night on Jan. 23, 2020. RN Clarice Shen was holding bathing supplies for her patient when her shift manager came to the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre ICU unit and pulled her aside to talk. The hospital had received a phone call from EMS that they were on their way with someone who was suspected of having COVID-19 (then called novel coronavirus).
Shen didn’t have much time to think about it before the shift manager began going over policies the hospital had adopted during the SARS pandemic. He outlined the...
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