VU: Influx may avert nurse shortage (Tennessean)


Sondra Pickard was married, a mom and in her 30s when she decided to become a nurse. "I was in a dead-end job," said Pickard, now 35 and in school at Tennessee State University. "It had always been my plan to become a nurse, but it was always put on the back burner. Having a family came first."