Sent on behalf of Allyson Hoard-Mann, Manager, Renal Services
Congratulations to Barb Wark, an RN with Renal Services who has decided its time to retire after working as a nurse since graduating from Lakehead University in 1993. Barb began her nursing career at McKellar General Hospital on 6S and then moved to Renal Services as a Pertioneal Dialysis nurse in 1996. After moving to Port Aurthur General Hospital for a short time to work on 4 East in 1998, Barb decided that she missed being a Renal Nurse and returned to Peritoneal Dialysis in 2001. Once her three kids became adults, she decided to try full time work and moved to Hemodialyisis in 2008. She became a mentor to the staff and a leader on the unit. The final move in her career was to the Multi-Care Kidney Clinic in 2019. Here, she embraced a new learning curve and became a passionate valuable team member to those people with chronic kidney disease. Barb will be missed by her patients and her colleagues. We wish her the best in her retirement.