Midlife Career Switch: Law to Nursing in Her 40s

She already had a promising career: Nneka Inez Mitchell, LLM, RN, had passed the New York bar exam and practiced as an attorney for several years before transitioning to a job managing litigation claims for multinational Fortune 500 insurance companies. But in 2004, when she gave birth to her son at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, Mitchell watched the nurses around her in awe and longed to be in their shoes.

for Nursing For/um magazine