Celeste is a dedicated Operating Room Registered Nurse of 40 years, with the last 39 years dedicated to practicing in Cardiac Surgery in Nova Scotia. Celeste is also nursing Team Lead and trained as a Surgical Assist, having worked in this specialized role for the past 24 years. She performs all roles in the Cardiac Operating Room as scrub nurse, circulating nurse, and most days she circulates and scrubs-in to harvest veins or radial arteries for bypass surgery patients. Celeste is well respected by her nursing peers, surgeons, residents, fellows, anaesthetists and perfusionists on her team, and on occasion is the only Surgical Assist for the surgery. Additionally, Celeste has been published in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and in a book chapter regarding Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.