Clare Fielding is a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) for Critical Care at Toronto General Hospital focusing on quality, patient safety, education and nursing research in the Medical Surgical, Cardiovascular and Cardiac Intensive Care Units at University Health Network. Clare came to nursing late, completing studying Physical and Health Education and History (with a minor in English Lit and a few classes in physics and math) before doing a degree in Nursing at Queen’s University at Kingston. She started work in the ICU at St Joseph’s Hospital Toronto. She came to UHN in 2008 from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute Cardiac Surgery Unit and spent five years in the CVICU at TGH as a clinical nurse and resource while completing her Masters in Nursing at the University of Toronto before becoming a CNS.