From Hospitals to Homecare to Sanofi: My Nursing Journey

As an Occupational Health Nurse at Sanofi, I’m touching so much and so many. While directly I’m not developing and manufacturing our life-saving medications and vaccines, I’m still caring for “patients” – in this case, my colleagues, who work such physically demanding jobs within our manufacturing and distribution sites. Whether it’s responding to emergencies, injuries, and other on-site incidents or return-to-work evaluations and managing COVID-19 and other illnesses, keeping our employees healthy means keeping patients healthy all over the world.

Prior to joining the Sanofi family, I spent nearly 14 years as a nurse, mainly in the ER and later home health. I was exhausted and burnt out. The past few years I spent as a travel nurse, working 13-hour days, throughout the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a nurse in the healthcare system, I was working most holidays, many weekends, and it was a challenge to even take a day off. Needless to say, I was tired, and had little time, energy or interest to pursue anything else outside of work.