The story of nurse Clara.

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Word count: 2958

Choice count: 100

Section count: 67

Image count: 67

Error count: 23

Field Related Analysis:

Nursing : 41 matches (absence, AIDS, alcohol, blood transfusion, cancer, cannabis, clinic, Council, compensation, complication, conflict, contact, test, depression, director, Doctor, engagement, flight, foot, gene, hospital, host, HR, immune, malaria, needle, nurse, obstetrics, pain, play, position, reaction, rehabilitation, SAD, supervisor, surgery, nursing, transfusion, vaccination, immune system, patients)

Law/Paralegal-Technology : 39 matches (absence, act, African, blood, cannabis, charge, children, close, compensation, complaint, contact, defamation, Direction, director, divorce, drugs, evidence, family, fine, General, guilty, interest, law, living, minutes, misconduct, mission, mortgage, offer, office, pension, premium, probation, rehabilitation, sanction, street, test, trial, truth)

Education : 22 matches (CEGEP, School, choice, college, compensation, courses, don, exam, first, general, head, learn, learned, level, management, sanction, scholarship, school, teacher, test, trainee, training)

Target Structure:

a foot in the door (1 match)

background check (1 match)

come in handy (1 match)

compensation package (1 match)

cursory (1 match)

dead-end job (1 match)

drawback (1 match)

dread (1 match)

drudgery (1 match)

fulfillment (1 match)

getting sucked up in (1 match)

HR (3 matches)

income (1 match)

ins-and-outs (1 match)

intern (1 match)

internship (1 match)

invaluable (1 match)

lack of (1 match)

learn the ropes (1 match)

leave of absence (1 match)

leg work (1 match)

maddening (1 match)

misconduct (1 match)

more often than not (1 match)

mortgage (1 match)

office politics (1 match)

OJT (1 match)

on-the-job-training (1 match)

overtime (1 match)

pension (1 match)

perpetrator (1 match)

premium wage (1 match)

retirement (3 matches)

straight A's (1 match)

thoroughly (1 match)

though (1 match)

thoughtful (1 match)

time management (1 match)

trainee (1 match)

undermine (1 match)

vacant position (2 matches)

wage (2 matches)

withholding (1 match)

worthwhile (1 match)

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The story of nurse Clara.

Clara has 3 choices.

Clara started to study Nursing 3 years ago at Cegep St-Jérôme. Three years ago she started to work as a PAB to get a foot in the door. She has been an intern for many semesters doing internship for three years. She started as a PAB to learn the ropes. She got OJT for 3 years. She did overtime to pay her scholarship. She is now a nurse because she has completed her program and have successfully complete the OIIQ exam. She got straight A's in all of her courses in College. She was a trainee and now she is a nurse. She now has a compensation package for her job as a nurse. She will get a good wage to do a worthwhile job, and she will get a pension at the end of her career. Three hospitals offer her a job.

Choice 1 : Sainte-Agathe.

Choice 2 : St-Justine.

Choice 3 : CHUM.

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Sainte-Agathe.

She chooses Sainte-Agathe's hospital because she wants to work in countryside instead of downtown. She likes the way of living in countryside. She works in the obstetrics department on level 2. She gives a blood transfusion to a patient and forget to stay with her patient for the first 15 minutes, because of a bad time management. The patient make an allergic reaction. There was a mismatch with her college Sarah. Fortunately the doctor go in the patient's room at this moment, and finally the patient is fine. Clara is getting sucked up in an investigation to find exactly what happened.

Choice 1 : Denounce herself.

Choice 2 : Denounce her colleague.

Choice 3 : Clara and her colleague keep the secret.

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Denounce herself.

She is asking herself what she should do. She is honest, so she denounces herself, she is guilty and its ins-and-outs in this kind of situation. She misunderstood what she had to do and it is not her colleagues fault. But what will happen?

Choice 1 : Sanction.

Choice 2 : Fired.

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Sanction.

The administration council tells her she can continue to work because she has been honest and denounce herself. But she has restrictions, she has to work with a colleague for one year. They don't allow her to work alone for one year.

Choice 1 : The end of the probation.

Choice 2 : Still on probation.

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The end of the probation.

After one year, she did not make any mistakes and her supervisor tells the administration council that Clara is a good nurse, and she can work alone She overwhelms everyone who thought she would never be able to work alone.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Still on probation.

Her supervisor note that Clara is never concentrated on her job and that she makes many mistakes. The council decides that she has to be supervised for another six moments.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Fired.

The hospital direction thinks she can be a danger for patients. If the doctor did not when in patient's room, these could have been bad consequences for the patient. They decide to fire her from the Laurentide's CISSS.

Choice 1 : Go to Trois-Rivières.

Choice 2 : Change job.

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Go to Trois-Rivières.

Clara decides to quit the Laurentides to try to get a new job in a CLSC of Trois-Rivières where no one knows her.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Change job.

She finds out that nursing is too stressful and decides to go back to school to become a flight attendant.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Denounce her colleague.

She thinks that if her colleague had to give her better instruction, nothing of that had happened. So, she denounces her colleague.

Choice 1 : Her colleague is guilty.

Choice 2 : She decides to denounce herself.

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Her colleague is guilty.

It is not the first time that Sarah makes mistakes, it is Clara's words against Sarah's words. The council decides that because Sarah makes more mistakes she has to be fired.

Choice 1 : She feels guilty.

Choice 2 : She is happy.

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She feels guilty.

Clara feels guilty. She will feel guilty until her retirement.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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She is happy.

She's happy that she have not been found guilty and happy until her retirement. She is happy withholding her colleague's sanction.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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She decides to denounce herself.

Clara feels guilty of what she does to her colleague, so she decides to denounce herself because at the end she did the mistake.

Choice 1 : Sanction.

Choice 2 : Fired.

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Clara and her colleague keep the secret.

Clara and her colleague think that if they keep the secret no one will know what happened and this way they will not be fired.

Choice 1 : A PAB saw them.

Choice 2 : Both are fired.

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A PAB saw them.

While Sarah asked Clara to supervise the transfusion a PAB eared their conversation. This PAB tells what she knows to the council.

Choice 1 : The truth comes out.

Choice 2 : Both are fired.

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The truth comes out.

The PAB denounces Clara, and she is fired, Sarah still works at the hospital, but she has to be supervised by another nurse because she did not tell the truth.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Choice 1 :

Both are fired.

Because both Clara and Sarah refuse to talk, the hospital direction decide to fire them both.

Choice 1 : Corrupt evidence.

Choice 2 : Sarah makes a trial to Clara.

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Corrupt evidence.

Clara is guilty and have a misconduct, she decides to corrupt evidence and to create new ones to make Sarah guilty and have her job back.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Sarah makes a trial to Clara.

Sarah makes a trial to Clara because she did not tell that she was guilty. She makes a trial for defamation because she wants the truth to come out and have her job back.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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St-Justine.

Clara decides to go to Ste-Justine, because she always liked kids and wants to work with them. She works with kids who have leukemia and cancers. This makes her full of sadness, and she feels powerless because she can not save every kid.

Choice 1 : Volunteering Abroad.

Choice 2 : Burnout.

Choice 3 : Changes department.

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Volunteering Abroad.

She feels powerless, so she decides to go to Africa to go volunteering abroad with kids to come in handy.

Choice 1 : Get AIDS.

Choice 2 : Build a school.

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Get AIDS.

She does vaccination clinic in Africa. One day, she gets in contact with the needle. She is test and contracts AIDS.

Choice 1 : Gets Malaria.

Choice 2 : Discover the world.

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Gets Malaria.

Because of AIDS, her immune system is low, so she contracts Malaria. She dies of Malaria in Africa far away from her family.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Discover the world.

Even if she has AIDS, she decides to complete her mission an Africa. At the end of mission she decides to travel around the invaluable world to discover many countries before dying.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Build a school.

She builds a school for kids in Benin to help them to learn, there is a lack of school in this part of the world. She works very hard during mounts.

Choice 1 : Destruction of the school.

Choice 2 : Come back every year.

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Destruction of the school.

After years of hard work to build the school. The army of Boko Haram destructs the school. She feels so sad about that. She decides to never go back in Africa and comes back in Canada to work in a CLSC near her home. She decides to let go her job at Ste-Justine.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Come back every year.

Following this volunteering, she finds that the school she builds is very useful to the African kids. She decides to come back every year to help Benin's kids to learn French. She also decides to go volunteering abroad in other African countries like Congo or Togo to build schools.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Burnout.

She feels sad, powerless, very anxious about the kids having cancer. Every day is so hard for her to go to work, this is why she does a burnout.

Choice 1 : Fiji.

Choice 2 : Become an addict.

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Fiji.

She takes a leave of absence to clear her mind. She decides to go to Fiji to visit and make party.

Choice 1 : She gets married.

Choice 2 : Decides to open a clinic.

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She gets married.

She meets the love of her life in Fiji. They get married and decide to stay in Fiji. The have kids. Though she will never work a nurse again and becomes a dancing teacher in Fiji.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Decides to open a clinic.

She opens a clinic in Fiji, something like a CLSC because she likes to help people.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Become an addict.

During her burnout she starts to drink a lot of alcohol, drugs and feels good this way. It makes pain and sadness go away. She becomes addict.

Choice 1 : Become a schizophrenic.

Choice 2 : Become homeless.

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Become a schizophrenic.

Taking drugs more often than not like cannabis it makes the schizophrenic gene appear. She has to go in a close therapy in Douglas hospital.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Become homeless.

She uses all her income she learned as a nurse and all the money she steals to her family to buy drugs and alcohol. Her family refuses to give her more money, and she ends in the street; homeless.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Changes department.

Cursory she decides to change department, oncologist a dead-end job for her, it is to sad. She finds a vacant position in a rehabilitation department. She likes it because she feels useful for kids.

Choice 1 : Not enough training.

Choice 2 : Create her own rehabilitation clinic.

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Not enough training.

During her training, the on-the-job-training nurse forget to show her how to move a kid from a chair to a hospital bed when the kid has a broken-leg. The kid falls on the floor and breaks his other leg. Parents decide to make an official complaint.

Choice 1 : Fired.

Choice 2 : Complaint.

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Fired.

The hospital tells her that she was not enough trained and that it was a bad idea to move the kid. She gets fired.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Complaint.

Clara decides to go on trial against the nurse who trained her. She wins the trial, keeps her job and the other nurse get fired.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Create her own rehabilitation clinic.

She really likes rehabilitation, so she decides to create her own clinic with the help of physiotherapist, and therapists, doctors, and nurses. She is waiting for that with dread.

Choice 1 : New clinics.

Choice 2 : Adopts children.

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New clinics.

Her clinic works very well. She opens other clinics all around the province. She becomes the icon of rehabilitation and learns a lot of money. It is fulfillment for her, she pulls off even if it was hard at the beginning.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Adopts children.

She decides to adopt kids who have rehabilitation problems. Parents were not able to take care of them, parents who have put side their kids. She is thoughtful to these kids. She adopts 5 kids ans becomes a host family.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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CHUM.

She works at the CHUM on a surgery level. She meets a pulmonologist. She fells in love with him. She meets her boyfriend's mother, she is in charge of the emergency department, it is a drawback because she always wanted to work at the emergency. It is a conflict of interest because she wants to marry her son. Three years later, her boyfriends ask her to marry him. She doesn't know what to do.

Choice 1 : She says yes!

Choice 2 : She says no!

Choice 3 : Says yes and get married in secret.

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She says yes!

She says yes! She likes working in surgery department, and she doesn't know if one day there would be a vacant position at the emergency.

Choice 1 : Stays in surgery department.

Choice 2 : Decide to change hospital.

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Stays in surgery department.

She decides to stay in surgery and to not go at the emergency because she really loves her boyfriend.

Choice 1 : Dies.

Choice 2 : No challenge.

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Dies.

Three years later there are still dedicated hospital for the Covid-19. She works in one of these hospitals in a Covid-19 department. She gets Covid-19 and dies of complication.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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No challenge.

She thinks about her maddening life, and she is not happy with her job.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Decide to change hospital.

She decides to change hospital to avoid conflict of interest and to get an emergency job in another hospital. She is now at the Montreal General Hospital.

Choice 1 : Divorce.

Choice 2 : Happy.

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Divorce.

They get divorce, because they both work too hard and the never have the chance to do things together.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Happy.

She finds balance in her life by changing hospital. She is married and in love at the emergency, have kids. She has everything.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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She says no!

She decides to refuse the wedding engagement to avoid the conflict of interest to have the chance to work at the emergency.

Choice 1 : He left her.

Choice 2 : Play behind her back.

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He left her.

Her boyfriend leaves her because she doesn't want to marry him.

Choice 1 : Gets a job at the emergency.

Choice 2 : Depression.

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Gets a job at the emergency.

She gets her dream job at the CHUM emergency, but her mother-in-law is angry about her because she refuses to marry her son. She doesn't act correctly with Clara thoroughly all of her years at the emergency.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Depression.

She depresses because she is in love with her boyfriend even if she does not want to marry him. She wants to stay with him forever. After this she has a lot of drudgery years.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Play behind her back.

Her lover is a perpetrator. He decides to break her dreams because he is frustrated. He asks his mother to never give an emergency opportunity to her.

Choice 1 : She marries him.

Choice 2 : Find out the Truth.

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She marries him.

Her mother-in-law deters her to get jobs in the emergency department, she tells Clara that it is too much leg work for her. So, she decides to get married, based on a lie of her mother-in-law. She will work at the surgery department until retirement.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Find out the Truth.

She finds out about the lie and left her boyfriend. She hates people lying to her. Then, she changes hospital and find a job at the emergency she meets someone else and gets married and have kids. She is happy.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Says yes and get married in secret.

She accepts to marry him in secret. No one knows they are married to give her the chance to get a job at the emergency department.

Choice 1 : People find out about the wedding.

Choice 2 : Find out her monter-in-law's secret.

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People find out about the wedding.

Three years later, their family finds out about the wedding and that they lie to give her the chance to get a job at the emergency.

Choice 1 : Lose her job.

Choice 2 : Keeps her job.

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Lose her job.

Her mother-in-law in charge of the emergency department decides to fire her because of the conflict of interest. She has to go back in the surgery department.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Keeps her job.

Her mother-in-law decides to let her the job at the emergency because it works very well since the last three years.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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Find out her monter-in-law's secret.

Her husband tells her that his mother is in relation with the hospital director. It is a way to have more money for the emergency department.

Choice 1 : Clara tells the Truth to the HR department.

Choice 2 : She blackmails her.

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Clara tells the Truth to the HR department.

Clara tells the HR department to have a background check on her mother-in-law because she is in relation with the hospital director. She undermine about the mother-in-law to get sure that she gets fired. With the office politics she manages to have her mother-in-law's job to get a premium wage. She needs it to pay her mortgage. She is happy in managing emergency department.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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She blackmails her.

Clara decides blackmails her mother-in-law to have her job at the head of the emergency department. Clara's husband finds out about all this, he asks for divorce. Clara finally staid at the emergency, but she is lonely.

Choice 1 : Clara has 3 choices.

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