Love Into Being

By Lisa B. Thomas  •  October 02, 2025

I’m not sure when I first thought “I want to be a nurse”, but by the time I was 15, the desire to go into nursing was simply part of who I was; it became a permanent part of my dreams. When other students entering college were unsure of their major, I walked directly into Ohio State’s College of Nursing without looking back and graduated four years later as a registered nurse. My life as a nurse had begun, and it lasted over 30 years.

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