For Bonn-Tien, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing grad, doing her job well requires more than just excellent medical knowledge and skill. It’s also about having compassion and attending to her patients’ emotional needs. 

“It’s a privilege to be able to help people that are in such vulnerable situations,” she says. 

While Bonn-Tien is passionate about her hospital work, she is also deeply motivated to help people in developing countries. She recently travelled to Haiti to volunteer in a trauma hospital. While there, she helped to provide emergency care to patients injured in serious accidents. 

“Many people don’t have access to the resources we have here in Canada. I want to help them get the health care and health education they need,” she says. “By studying at Douglas, I gained the skills and knowledge to do it.”