Nursing a more realistic dream for the future and for family

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 | 12:02 p.m. CDT; updated 9:07 a.m. CDT, Monday, May 7, 2012

MOBERLY — Alaina Harrison, 19, of Hannibal, is studying nursing at Moberly Area Community College. She's wanted to be a nurse since third grade, when she saw the difference between the nurses who care and the ones who don't after her great-grandmother entered a nursing home. But it doesn't hurt that nurses "can get a job anywhere," she says. 

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