[Music]
[SickKids logo appears on a white background]
[Jane Stuart-Minaret, Registered Nurse at SickKids, sits in front of a window wearing a SickKids lanyard.]
Stuart-Minaret: Well, I've been working at SickKids for a little over 35 years.
[The camera focuses in on the entrance to the Emergency Department with a red sign reading “Emergency” in white letters]
[Stuart-Minaret walks through the entrance doors into the Emergency Department]
Stuart-Minaret: A SickKids nurse is like an expert, but an expert that wants to grow.
[Behind a glass window, Stuart-Minaret nods over another staff member’s shoulder as they look at a computer screen together]
Stuart-Minaret: They want to learn. They want to do better.
[Two SickKids employees wearing masks take notes in front of a computer]
[A nurse smiles encouragingly beneath her mask as she speaks to two family members seated at a desk]
Stuart-Minaret: They're really into the family-centred care. They want to do the best they can.
[Bright-coloured beads and animal shapes hang from a metal pole]
[A nurse wearing a mask and face shield places a syringe on a piece of hospital equipment]
[A nurse wearing a mask, face shield and blue protective gown walks down a hospital hallway]
Stuart-Minaret: And they want to do new, innovative things.
[Three hospital workers stand together]
[The elevator on a construction crane slides up along the side of a glass building with bright yellow blocks]
Stuart-Minaret: I want people to know there's opportunities at SickKids.
[A view of the levels in the atrium at SickKids]
Stuart-Minaret: You can be the best you can be at SickKids because they promote that.
[Stuart-Minaret sits in a classroom with blue chairs and a window behind her]
[Stuart-Minaret fades into focus, smiling beneath her mask, with emergency equipment in the background]
Text on screen: Jane Stuart-Minaret, Registered Nurse, Emergency Medicine, Educator, Global Child Health
Stuart-Minaret: My name is Jane. My pronouns are she and her. I'm a nurse in the Emergency Department and I'm also a part-time educator for the Global Child Health Department.
[Stuart-Minaret walks toward the camera]
Text on screen: 1991
[Two photos show Stuart-Minaret from 1991 wearing scrubs and a stethoscope]
Stuart-Minaret: Well, thinking back I never thought I would still be here. Thirty-five years! But as time progressed, more opportunities came, and the work environment was just so fantastic.
[Stuart-Minaret walks through a hospital hallway, waving as she passes rooms]
Stuart-Minaret: And I looked around and I thought, “I don’t know if I’m going to find that anywhere else.”
[Stuart-Minaret talks to a hospital staff member as they hang a clipboard on a wall]
Stuart-Minaret to the staff member: It's a busy day, eh? Oh my gosh.
[Stuart-Minaret looks at a screen with a chart showing the Emergency Department’s patient flow]
Stuart-Minaret: The opportunities to do new career paths with the hospital is really, one of the reasons I've stayed.
[Sliding doors reading “Emergency Department” close behind Stuart-Minaret as she walks through]
Stuart-Minaret: I started in the old building on the Infectious Disease unit where I did my clinical placement.
[A black-and-white photo shows the outside of SickKids as another photo of Stuart-Minaret early in her nursing career appears on the screen]
Stuart-Minaret: And then the new hospital was built, and I moved down to the Emergency Department at that point.
[A recent photo outside SickKids]
Text on screen: Jane's Journey: Infectious Disease, Emergency Department, Preceptor, Masters Program, Educator, Canadian Paediatric Society, Emergency Nursing Paediatric Course (Canada/US), Global Child Health
[An infographic shows the timeline following Stuart-Minaret's career]
Stuart-Minaret: Did some precepting, really liked that role. And then I thought, I’m going to start my Masters. At that point, I moved into the educator role. Then I started to do some work for the Paediatric Society in Canada, we developed the triage scoring system. And moving along, teaching the Emergency Nursing Paediatric Course to nurses across Canada and the US through SickKids. And then I thought, where can I go from here?
[Stuart-Minaret demonstrates emergency care on a doll]
[Stuart-Minaret and another person stand over a nursing manikin as they demonstrate emergency care]
Stuart-Minaret: And I suddenly realized, I love primary care, I love teaching, I love working with families as well as students. And I thought, I’m going to apply to Global Child Health. There was a perfect opportunity to do some work on the PNEP project: Paediatric Nursing Education Partnership.
Text on screen: SickKids-Ghana Paediatric Nursing Education Partnership. Need: Enable nurses to contribute to reducing preventable deaths and improving health and wellbeing for newborns, children and adolescents in Ghana.
Stuart-Minaret: And this was in Ghana. And I ended up there in 2016 and I’ve never looked back.
[Stuart-Minaret sits with others around a table in Ghana]
[A photo taken in Ghana shows Stuart-Minaret smiling for the camera with two other people]
Stuart-Minaret: I've been to Ghana eight times, and one of my trips was over eight weeks.
[Photos and video clips of Stuart-Minaret speaking with people in Ghana]
Stuart-Minaret: There was a big emergency component to it, and it was primary pediatric nursing care. I helped with some of the curriculum. They just needed help with starting those classes off with their nursing students.
[Photos and video clips of Stuart-Minaret speaking with people in Ghana]
Stuart-Minaret: Just being able to see what it's like to have kids on the other side of the world, in another country, and what challenges they face.
[Stuart-Minaret speaks from the classroom with blue chairs and windows behind her]
Stuart-Minaret: The Global Child Health PNEP project is a big part of my life.
[Stuart-Minaret removes her stethoscope from her neck and demonstrates listening to a heartbeat on a doll]
Stuart-Minaret: SickKids offers these opportunities, but also supports them in the background with the funding, with your scheduling.
[Behind a glass window, Stuart-Minaret nods over another staff member’s shoulder as they look at a computer screen together]
[Stuart-Minaret walks through a door carrying a face shield and a yellow surgical gown]
Stuart-Minaret: You know, you work with the managers, and you give and take.
[From behind a glass window with a sign reading, “Seats reserved for triage,” Stuart-Minaret places the face shield on her face]
[Wearing the yellow surgical gown, face mask and face shield, Stuart-Minaret smiles and waves to someone out of frame]
Stuart-Minaret to a patient: “My name's Jane, I'm one of the nurses today.”
Stuart-Minaret: The new grads that come in to work in the emerge, they say, how do you keep working here? It's really busy. I said, because of the team.
[Stuart-Minaret hugs another SickKids staff member wearing a mask]
Stuart-Minaret: It’s supportive, but also there's always these new opportunities and the hospital is trying to make the work environment better.
[Stuart-Minaret ducks under hanging wires and medical equipment as she walks over to a doll lying on a hospital bed]
[Stuart-Minaret stands at a podium and addresses a virtual class on a computer screen in front of her]
Stuart-Minaret: They ask you what works. I don't just have to show up at work, right? I have these other opportunities if I stay at SickKids or work here at SickKids.
[Screen displays text reading “ENPC Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course, an ENA course. Injury Teaching Stations]
[Stuart-Minaret demonstrates emergency care on a nursing manikin that is lying on a hospital table while another person looks on]
Stuart-Minaret: I think, you know, that effort, personal effort, and following your heart, right?
[Stuart-Minaret speaks from the classroom with blue chairs and windows behind her]
Stuart-Minaret: What do you want to do? What is the best thing for you as a person? Well, this has been the best thing for me. But these younger nurses need to find that. And I think SickKids is a good place to start. Definitely.
[Camera pans down from the red sign reading “Emergency” in white font as the Emergency Department doors open and Stuart-Minaret jogs out, smiling beneath her mask]
[Music]
[SickKids logo appears on a white background]
[End of video]
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