Spring 2020

Before she took on her current role as senior director of evidence-based practice integration at Toronto’s Humber River Hospital, Nataly Farshait spent a decade teaching nursing students at Seneca College.

I always dreamed of nursing in a fast-paced ICU, but had not thought about the deaths I would encounter in my role. No one warns you about them, or how traumatic they can be. As health professionals, we focus on prolonging life and curing disease. We often forget that death is inevitable.