Susan1 shifts career to teaching nursing instead of doing clinical care due to lack of workplace accommodation.
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One day I picked up the phone and I called the Human Rights Commission. The human rights commission were horrified at the way I had been treated. I was treated like I had a brain transplant, not a heart transplant. And as a result the hospital ended up having to pay a year’s salary to me and the case was dropped. So then I carried on and then I ended up starting to teach nursing first in the RPN program locally and then eventually I decided to continue on my education and get my master’s so once I did that I started teaching in the BScN program too.
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