MedPage Today August 8, 2023
— We need more nurses on the front line, but we also need them leading change in business
I started out as a nurse because I was more interested in people than numbers. As the son of a blue-collar lumberyard worker in rural Wisconsin, I was expected to help out when family and friends needed it. My grandpa and aunt moved in with us, and I learned to appreciate the wisdom — and medical challenges — of people as they grow older.
Helping people with life challenges was so rewarding that I pursued it as a profession. As the first in my family to graduate from college, I was grateful for the academics but soon realized that some of the...