Article content Lisa Northcott remembers always wanting to be a nurse. After beginning as a volunteer candy striper at 14 and eventually becoming the chief nursing executive and a vice-president at Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, she will retire this fall. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Northcott was interviewed about her career for National Nursing Week. Her time volunteering as a teenager in what was Sarnia General Hospital in the 1980s “solidified” her decision to become a nurse, she said. “It was a lot different back then,” said Northcott, who grew up in Corunna. “We were actually allowed to work quite closely with the patients, helping them with all their activities of daily living, feeding patients (and) walking patients.”