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How a Nurse Returned to the OR After a Decade Off
After eleven years at home raising three kids, Dana Whitmore returned to the operating room as a perioperative nurse. In this episode, Lucas and Luna walk through how she rebuilt clinical confidence, navigated the credentialing maze, and landed a position in a Level 1 trauma center. They dig into the specific steps: shadowing, simulation labs, refresher courses, and negotiating a phased re-entry schedule. Dana's story shows that a decade away from medicine doesn't have to be a dead end, especially when you lean on the transferable skills of caregiving, crisis management, and…
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