A Life of Waiting for a Normal Beat and Rhythm

Dr. Kateryna Metersky is an Assistant Professor at the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. She is also a practicing nurse in General Internal Medicine at University Health Network - Toronto Western Hospital. As an educator, she continuously strives to develop innovative ways to enrich the educational experience for her students, and one such method is through the use of poetry in the classroom. Dr. Metersky enjoys composing poetry to explain difficult and theoretical concepts to nursing and interprofessional students, as well as patients in her care. She crafted this poem to help students understand what it is like for patients to live with heart disease. Dr. Metersky received the diagnosis of non-sustained ventricular tachycardia in 2019 and has experienced uncertainty living with this chronic illness. To this day, Dr. Metersky is still seeking a solution for this diagnosis that will help her live well with this condition.