Nova Scotia’s nephrology patients deserve health teams who are caring, knowledgeable, skilled, and engaged in reflective practice. Shauna strives to support and empower practitioners to provide high quality, collaborative, person/family-centred care using simulation, deliberate practice, and creative, individualized approaches to teaching and learning.

Shauna takes any opportunity she can to connect with and learn from her patients, colleagues, and students. Her clinical experience spans from community health and emergency nursing in northern Canada to emergency and hemodialysis nursing in Nova Scotia. Shauna has taken a leadership role in the development and facilitation of simulation-enhanced interprofessional education since 2014 and presently supports the Dalhousie Residency Simulation Program in the Eastern Zone.

Shauna has a positive and often humorous approach to life. Known for her energy and enthusiasm, she can be found cheering for her boys at hockey rinks across the province, walking in the woods with her dogs, or DJ-ing and dancing for her patients! She lives in Antigonish with her three sons and her husband, Gerry.

782-641-7903 | Shauna.Grant@nshealth.ca

There was never any doubt Jill would grow up to become a nurse. Her love of nursing began at an early age. She grew up in a family of nurses. However, she charted her own journey. She graduated from St. Martha’s School of Nursing and worked as an RN as she obtained her degree from St. Francis Xavier University.

After graduating from St. FX, Jill moved to Calgary where she worked at Foothills Medical Centre, one of the largest hospitals in Western Canada. She moved home to Antigonish to work at St. Martha’s Hospital as a clinical lead on weekends, managing the complexities of that role while raising her two young boys with her husband, John Paul. In 2009, Jill began working in dialysis. She thrived on the intricacies of the nephrology unit, which included treating her regular patients and learning new ways of addressing complex situations with a team of professionals.

For more than 25 years, she has been working with patients and their families supporting them through some of the most challenging times of their lives. Jill’s nursing career has awarded her the opportunity to meet, treat, teach and – most importantly – care for people. Jill believes that to treat a patient is to understand who they are. She knows dealing with the health care system can be complicated and scary for many. Jill’s patients and their families trust that she will be there to guide them – and she is.

In her role as a nephrology program nursing instructor, Jill uses all of her skills to share her experiences with other nurses and helping them learn quickly that treating a condition is one thing, but treating the patient and their families as people is what really matters.

902-338-2160 | Jill.Leon@nshealth.ca