Thursday, February 29, 2024

Veteran embarking on new career through College of Nursing at The University of Toledo

 

Jeff Nelson knew it was time for a change.

He was drifting from desk job to desk job after a serious on-the-job injury forced him to medically resign as a deputy sheriff. These positions kept him nominally in the criminal justice field in which he’d been working for two decades, but they weren’t fulfilling.

 “I didn’t like the desk work,” Nelson said. “I wasn’t doing what I had gotten into criminal justice to do. I wanted to be hands on, and I wanted to be helping people.”

Then came a conversation with a representative of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, who suggested the disabled military veteran take advantage of the program Veteran Readiness and Employment, formerly called Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment. Nelson learned that, with certain requirements met, the program would pay for him to go back to school to train in a new field.

His choice? Nursing at The University of Toledo.

Read more about Jeff at:

https://news.utoledo.edu/index.php/12_12_2023/veteran-to-embark-on-new-career-with-college-of-nursing

Cheers!

Donna

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