Celebrating the future of nursing with the 2023 Nursing Excellence Awards

[Faces of different SickKids nurses wearing masks flash on the screen] 

Each of the nurses: This is SickKids nursing.  

[Music] 

Text on screen: Our nurses. 

[Nurses smile at the camera from behind their masks] 

[Transport nurses push a transport incubator] 

[Faces of nurses smiling behind their masks flash on the screen] 

[Two nurses comfort a patient holding an orange stuffed toy during surgery] 

[Nurses wearing yellow surgical gowns gather in an operating room] 

[Colourful stethoscopes decorated with beads hand over a railing] 

[Nurses seated at a nursing station laugh together and clap their hands] 

[Two nurses wearing surgical caps walk together as one puts their arm around the other] 

Text on screen: Our future. 

Audio from operating room: one, two, three. 

[A team of people wearing yellow surgical gowns, masks, face shields and caps gather around a hospital bed] 

Voiceover: We have specialized training and advanced skills. 

[A nurse listens to the heartbeat of a newborn in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit] 

[A nurse in the Cardiac Critical Care Unit listens to the heartbeat of a patient] 

[Nurses practice caring for a manikin that is lying on a hospital bed] 

[Nurses distract their patient with a stuffed toy] 

[One nurse holds a baby in their arms] 

Audio: Ready? We’re going to walk. 

[A nurse helps a young patient walk out of the bathroom] 

Voiceover: Understand we are one part of a much larger team. 

[A person points to an X-ray on a screen] 

[A group of people wearing yellow surgical gowns stand in a circle as one person speaks] 

Audio: There’s a six-year-old coming in… 

[A Toronto paramedic stands in front of the Emergency Department security desk as a nurse speaks to them through the intercom] 

Audio: What’s the patient here for today? 

[A helicopter lands on the roof] 

[Three nurses push a cart into an Emergency room and close the curtain behind them] 

Voiceover: We are community and global partners. 

[Two nurses speak in front of a sign that reads “Connected Care”] 

[A sign directs passersby toward SickKids and UHN] 

[Transport nurses push a transport incubator through a colourful hallway] 

[A nurse teaches a group of people seated at a table] 

[Two nurses walk down a hallway together] 

[A nurse demonstrates scrubbing their hands and arms in a sink] 

[A person wearing surgical scrubs, gloves, cap, mask and face shield stands before a table filled with surgical tools] 

Voiceover: Participate in ground-breaking surgeries and cutting-edge procedures.  

[Health-care workers care for a patient in an operating room] 

[A person writes “Happy transplant day!” on a whiteboard in green marker] 

[A patient seated in a hospital bed wearing a gown looks on as a nurse adjusts their IV] 

[Nurses pose with the patient who is giving a peace sign] 

[A patient plays a piano as their nurse listens on before giving them a high-five] 

[Two nurses walk backwards pushing two carts labelled “comfort care”] 

[The nurses pushing the carts put their arms around each other and laugh] 

Voiceover: We are leaders in innovation and research. 

[A camera screen shows a newborn’s face in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit] 

[A sign reads “SickKids Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning”] 

[A person seated at a computer wearing a surgical cap reads a textbook] 

[A person wearing a light blue blazer and a person wearing a red blazer walk together in a hallway] 

[A sign reads “Executive Office”] 

Voiceover: We are changemakers. 

[Judy Van Clieaf stands next to a sign reading “Judy Van Clieaf” smiling and holding up a photo of herself as a young nurse] 

[Karen Kinnear stands next to a sign reading “Karen Kinnear” smiling and holding up a photo of herself as a young nurse] 

[A banner reads, “Here comes the sun”] 

Voiceover: We are trailblazers. 

[A musician plays ukulele around a patient’s hospital bed as the patient and nurses clap along] 

Audio: Here comes the sun… 

Voiceover: We are pioneers in paediatric care. 

[A team of health-care workers stand in an operating room] 

[A nurse assists a patient who is looking at a tablet] 

[A nurse stands in a hallway speaking toward the camera] 

Voiceover: We are the nurses of today. 

[Two health-care workers speak to each other from across a nursing station desk] 

[Health-care workers hold a patient’s hand as she recovers from surgery] 

[A team of health-care workers transport a patient through a hospital hallway] 

Voiceover: We are the nurses of tomorrow. 

[A newborn baby sleeps in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit] 

[A nurse smiles and points to an ultrasound screen] 

[Two nurses hug each other in front of a window in a hospital hallway] 

[A person wearing a shirt that reads “Paediatric medicine” walks down a hallway] 

[Two nurses laugh together] 

[Two nurses wearing yellow surgical gowns, caps and blue surgical gloves comfort a patient who is in surgery] 

[A nurse hugs a patient] 

[A nurse walks through automatic doors as they close behind her] 

[SickKids logo appears on a white background]