I graduated with a diploma in nursing from Victoria General Hospital School of Nursing in 1993. I am presently working on my Bachelor of Science in Nursing through distance education from St. Francis Xavier University. I worked for four and a half years with Northwood Homecare caring for many clients with different illnesses acute and chronic, mostly palliative care. For the past 4 years I have worked at the Nova Scotia Hospital in acute care, Short Stay and Assessment Services working with clients acutely ill or in crisis situations and completing comprehensive admission assessments.

As a health care provider, person at risk for HD and a care giver of a family member with HD, I have become more involved with trying to educate family members and co-workers about HD.

I feel I should begin by sharing why I am so interested in teaching health care workers about Huntington Disease. I experienced in my own work environment how people respond to persons with HD when they do not understand the disease itself.