Retired Tofield nurse pursues her adventurous spirit
Tofield resident Irene Crosland moved from her journey of nursing of 43 years, the last 18 being in town, to bird photography, and in her words it was “large leaps and little steps in the right direction.”
According to Crosland, her nursing career brought her many thrills and also many little side trips of discovery into new skills, new cultural contexts and areas of growth and change.
“Graduating from the Holy Cross School of Nursing, I was thrilled to the idea of adventure and spent two years in the mountains of Kentucky, isolated far from any city or town and finding that besides enjoying the rugged beauty there, that the people carried a rich and proud heritage while suffering the ups and downs of a coal-driven economy,” Crosland said.
After returning and gaining expertise in Labor and Delivery in a city hospital, she would carry the love of that maternal focus to the rural hospitals she worked at.
“My final 18 years I worked at the Tofield Health Centre Emergency Room and Acute Care . . . contd.
