The news is good -- nurses are in demand all across Canada. An empathetic heart, a desire to learn and the ability to multi-task make you the perfect candidate for the nursing profession. As a career with many different specialities and niches, nursing is guaranteed to bring rewards that go beyond the paycheque.

In Conversation With ... Maria Kranz, a registered nurse at Bridgepoint Hospital in Toronto. She has worked in the nursing profession for 17 years, both in Canada and Germany.

Halloween is perhaps the only time when we think of death and dying in a relaxed way. Otherwise, all this death business is rather scary and unpleasant. But there are many people out there who like to work on the darker side of things. So how do you get into a morbid career? Let’s start the process by looking at an unidentified body.