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The Nurse Manager Of A Neuroscience

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“What surprises me the most is that I love it as much as I do,” Liz told me. Today, Liz is the nurse manager of a neuroscience unit in a hospital, but for a while, she had no idea what she wanted to do. Nursing was a possibility here and there, but it never struck her as something she could be good at until her twenties, when her son was born. Looking back, Liz remembers all of the struggles she has had along the way, but recognizes that each one has only brought her closer to where she wants to be. Every day on the job may be stressful, but every one gives her another reason to love what she does. It is the challenges she has faced in her profession that motivate her to be the best nurse she can be.
If you asked Liz twenty years ago what she would be doing now, nursing would not have been her answer. While her mother always encouraged her to become a registered nurse, Liz never thought the day would come. Prior to nursing, Liz worked various jobs in multiple different doctors’ offices, never quite knowing what it was she really wanted to do. While her mother continued to promote nursing school, Liz pushed the idea aside until after she had a son. As she watched him grow up, she began to think that maybe her mom was right. As a mother, she learned so many new things about taking care of people that she had never known before. She became confident in her ability to help people, and she looked further into the field of nursing. Liz talked all about it with her close friend who

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