Sophie Pamak graduated from Nursing School in 1996.
She is originally from Nain.
Pamak now lives in Hopedale, and has been The Home Care Nurse for the Department of Health and Social Development for the past nine years.
She also worked in the clinic in Hopedale as a public nurse.
She has worked in long term care since obtaining her degree in nursing.
Pamak received an award this past spring under the First Nation Inuit Health Branch category for a Nurse working in an Inuit Community.
An article has been written about Pamak in a quarterly magazine for the Canadian Nursing Association.
The article is in a section called Nurse to Know in the September issue of Canadian Nursing Magazine.
Pamak says that this magazine is sent to all nurses in Canada.