Second Career Nurse
I can make things better
My first time doing CPR on a real person was the night I learned how to be a nurse. In that long first year of nursing, I had learned the science and the mechanics, but that shift taught me so much more.
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Second acts
A Wall Street banker, a Buddhist monk, a flight attendant, an Army platoon leader, a television sitcom writer, an accountant and a teacher all have this in common: They found happiness and fulfillment by landing the role of a lifetime.
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The second career nurse
My mother, Leigh Ann Tovar, is a nurse. She has always inspired in me a love for lifelong learning. What I didn’t know? I had inspired her to become a nurse at the age of 60.
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Work rage
Have you ever been in a hostile workplace situation? Or just a really frustrating one? Enough to make you open the emergency chute?
Rebekah Child
Nursing school finals frustration
Student nurses are frazzled and panicking right now. You’ve been there. Got any advice for us?
Ani Burr
Stranger in a strange land
Male nurses are almost not existent in the clinics. Other than the MDs, I am the only guy on the floor.
Rob Cameron
The nursing “trade”
Is nursing considered a career or a trade? I am not just a skilled craftsman, I am an educated professional.
Sean Dent
A doctor in nursing uniform?
I love hearing about how the nurse practitioner is the “next best thing” in the medical profession. Is it?
Nicole Lehr
