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Virginia Nurses Head Anywhere but to the Hospitals.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2001

By Liz Szabo, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 25--Patients frustrated by delayed surgeries and long waits in emergency rooms are asking the same question: Where have all the nurses gone?

In many cases, anywhere but a hospital.

Lee Williams has become a paralegal.

Beth Macarenas joined the insurance industry.

Marci Moorehead, like a small but growing number of former hospital nurses, has decided to go it alone. She's launched her own company.

After saying goodbye to 12-hour days, all-night shifts and physically exhausting work, many former nurses are finding their years of bedside experience in great demand in a wide range of other professions, from insurance to law to...

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