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Humber PeopleCindy SandercockHumber BN student wins Ontario Division-CCS Nursing Award A 39-year-old mother of two, Cindy began the collaborative BN program at Humber in 2001 after working part-time for many years while raising her children. “Nursing has been a lifelong dream, but I wasn’t able to study full-time while my children were young,” says Cindy. In her third year of the program, in clinical practice at St. Joseph’s Health Centre on a medical oncology floor, she discovered she had a great interest in oncology nursing. “I worked with two cancer patients and had the opportunity to make them as comfortable as possible. I was pleased to be able to make a difference in the last few days of their lives and it’s something I see myself doing in the future.” Cindy says she worked with nurses at St. Joseph’s Health Centre whose knowledge about pain medicine and pain management was “astounding”. “They were caring professionals who would go to the ends of the earth to make their patients more comfortable. They were inspiring to me.” In her fourth year of the program, Cindy will work with cancer patients in clinical practice on the oncology unit at Credit Valley Hospital. Students in the collaborative BN program take all their courses at Humber for all four years and receive a BN degree from the University of New Brunswick. More Humber People...
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Cindy Sandercock, who is entering the fourth year of the collaborative