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Marlee Gregorio

Critical care nurse and Vice President of the Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses (CACCN); works at London Health Sciences Centre in Ontario and is a PhD student in nursing at the University of Ottawa.

Jul 3, 2026

24:36
Why do you think there is such inconsistent care? Does it have to do with access to newer therapies, awareness of new therapies? What are some of
24:44
the bigger challenges? I think number one, the first thing we talked about is really that diagnosis piece.
24:49
So I think just the barriers to diagnosis presents the first challenge.
24:53
And then I think from there, because we pursue treatment with a wide variety of health care providers, whether it be your kind of primary care physician or a nurse practitioner or a dermatologist, there's often different kind of approaches depending on who you're seeing.
25:08
And there's no kind of standardized approach there.
25:11
So often you'll find your health care provider advocates for kind of a stepwise approach of try some moisturizers first and maybe some cotton gloves.
25:20
Often people have already tried this and need to be escalated to the next step.
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The work that the Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses does, what are you most proud of in terms of the work that they're doing? What's a little bit about their mandate and what are you appreciative of with this group? So the Canadian

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