Cristina Nagy, RN
My career has evolved over two major periods, having lived and worked in two countries with different approaches and different customs on two very distant continents. My professional training in various schools has stoked my passion for diversity by questioning the administrative, legal, and ethical issues raised by the surgical environment.
After receiving my Certificate in Nursing, I practiced as an Obstetrics-Gynecology registered nurse in a hospital in Romania. There, I had fallen in love with the operating room, which would later become my specialty.
In 2005, I moved to Canada, where I started a new journey. I started to work for a nursing placement agency, first as a nurse’s aide and then as a licensed practical nurse. At the same time, I had to earn back my registered nurse status. This happened in 2008, when I was given the opportunity to work in the operating room at Jewish General Hospital. But that wasn’t enough for me, so I started a Bachelor of Nursing program that I finished in 2012. And because I can’t stay away from school, last year I started an MBA program.
I don’t know how time passed because I was a full-time nurse, full-time student, full-time mom and wife…. on availability.
However, I learned that I have the strength of will and of character to face challenges ahead and overcome them.
Now, as Nursing Coordinator for the Operating Rooms, with over eighteen years’ experience, I can say that I’ve developed skills that promote quality patient-outcomes within a perspective of protection of the public and efficient personnel-management, optimal utilization of resources and operative time, in a financially-responsible manner.
My success would not have been possible without the valued support of the whole OR team. I know that we can achieve anything that we put in our minds because we carry in our hearts a boundless optimism and will to succeed.