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I kind of felt like I couldn’t sit at home and do nothing when I was fully capable of going and helping out. It’s definitely been draining. Time management has been my best friend.
— Cailly Simspon, a recent graduate of Rutgers Law School in Newark, commenting on what made her decide to go back to nursing during the pandemic while she completed her law degree. Simpson left the nursing field in 2017 to go to law school, but since April, she’s worked four 12-hour night shifts each week at NYU Langone hospital on top of her school work. She hopes to work as a medical malpractice defense attorney.
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