Careers Blog

If you’ve ever worked the night shift for five days straight, run a household and attempted to have a life, trying to make time to go back to school may feel impossible. Add college applications and trying to pay school bills, and getting another degree might seem way out of reach.

From day to day, you have developed a keen sense for what things should cost. When it’s something small that you purchase regularly, like a gallon of unleaded or your favorite quick lunch at a corner restaurant, you have a really good idea just how much the price should be. If it’s a big purchase, perhaps a car or a house, you likely do some research on how prices are set so that you’ll know that you’re getting a fair deal when you find the one you want.

John Lazarus knows what it’s like to be a graduate nurse in the emergency department because that’s where he started his career 25 years ago. “I absolutely loved every second of it,” he says of his early ED experience. “I loved the adrenaline, and I loved taking care of people at a very vulnerable state in their life and making an impact.”