... field. I was fascinated by how nurses knew disease processes and interventions. I knew how to perform client procedures and administer medications but sometimes I would not know why they were being done. On January 2001, I had to make a difficult decision whether to stay in the military and make it a career as I originally planned or get discharged from the military without any kind of plan of what to do once I left. My division officer at the time was a Navy Nurse Corps Officer. He talked to me about the many opportunities a nurse has both in the military and in the civilian sector. I can honestly say that this was a turning point in my life because it was then and there that I decided that I wanted to make nursing a lifelong career. So with the support of my Division Officer, I was able ...

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