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Nursing Grads Encouraged to Dream Big
December 13, 2016
The career advice Rear Adm. Sylvia Trent-Adams’ grandfather imparted to her as a young girl was brief: for job security, become either a nurse or an undertaker because sickness and death are guaranteed in life.
“Mortuary science is not my thing, so nursing is where I landed,” said Trent-Adams, PhD, MS ’99, RN, FAAN, the guest speaker at the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON) commencement ceremony held Dec. 12 at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore for summer and fall graduates. “I never thought that when I graduated from nursing school that I would end up becoming the deputy surgeon general. If you probably had said that to me at that point in time I would have said, ‘Yeah, right. What have you been smoking?’ ”