When Vancouver Coastal Health employee Samantha Shone graduated from high school, she was planning on becoming a nurse.
But an uncle wasn’t sure that she was ready to spend the next four years in university, so he suggested that she try a much shorter health-care offering—medical device reprocessing technician training—at Vancouver Community College. It transformed her life.
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Because she was working at St. Paul’s Hospital, she had a chance to observe other health-care professions, including nursing, and consider whether she should change her occupation in the future.
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