by Tilda Shalof
BELLA MEDEIROS MANOS, RN, graduated from George Brown College in Toronto in 1988 and has been nursing for 22 years in General Surgery, Trauma and the Medical Surgical Intensive Care at Toronto General Hospital of the University Health Network. She lives in Newmarket, Ontario, with husband Nick and their three children, William, Madeline, and Emma.
MADELEINE MYSKO, RN, MA, teaches creative writing in the Advanced Academic Programs of the Johns Hopkins University. She also coordinates the “Reflections” column for American Journal of Nursing. Her work, both poetry and prose, has appeared in The Hudson Review, Shenandoah, Bellevue Literary Review, The Baltimore Sun, American Journal of Nursing, and elsewhere. Her first novel, based on her experiences as an army nurse on the burn ward, is Bringing Vincent Home (Austin, Tex.: Plain View Press, 2007).
MEERA RAMPERSAD KISSONDATH, RN, BA, BScN, MN, graduated from Ryerson University (1983), McMaster University (1989), and the University of Toronto (1981 and 2007). Her master’s degree has a focus on cardiology and interventional cardiovascular surgery. Meera has been a staff nurse for 17 years in the CVICU at the University Health Network and staff nurse and Nurse Clinician, Cardiology at the Humber River Regional Hospital, Ontario. She is presently working toward board certification as a Nurse Practitioner. Meera lives in Ontario with her three sons and two dogs.
SHARON REYNOLDS, RN, BScN, has been an ICU nurse for 17 years.
GINA RYBOLT, RN, BScN, graduated from Bradley University in 1997. She has worked in medical/surgical and inpatient dialysis nursing, but the majority of her career has been in critical care. Gina is the author of Codeblog: Tales of a Nurse, a weblog started in 2002 specifically geared toward nursing and healthcare experiences. Along with writing about her own professional experiences, Gina posts stories submitted by other nurses, doctors, patients, and paramedics. Codeblog has been mentioned in Newsweek, Nurseweek, The Wall Street Journal, Proto Magazine, and was included in the Forbes Best of the Web medical blogs list. Gina lives and works in California.
CLAIRE THOMAS, RN, BScN, studied at John Abbott College in Montreal and completed her bachelors degree at the University of British Columbia (2004). She has practiced in Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto, in a variety of clinical settings. She specialized in Critical Care Nursing in 2001 and has been working in that specialty ever since.
SHERRILL TOLDY COLLINGS, RN, BScN, graduated from the University of Toronto in 1985 and has been working in the Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit in a university-affiliated teaching hospital in Toronto for the past 20 years. For the past 12 years she’s been a Patient Care Coordinator, a clinical leadership role to support front-line staff and their patients. She completed a Clinical Manager Program at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. Sherrill lives in Oakville, Ontario, with her three sons, Matthew, Ethan and Rhys.
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