I could never imagine putting a paycheck over a human life.
What happens when the work you believe you were born to do suddenly asks something of you that your conscience cannot give? For 25 years, critical-care nurse Kimberly Overton, BSN, RN, devoted her life to caring for others. Nursing wasn't simply a career—she had known since childhood that it was what she wanted to do. Then the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, and the profession she loved became the setting for one of the most difficult decisions of her life.