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Collected Item: “MW: Travel Nurses”

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MW: Travel Nurses

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text story

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My sister apparently graduated nursing school at the best and worst time. The tragedy of watching COVID-19 has left the hospital inundated and patients dying. The fear of coming home and being infected. However, new opportunities have presented themselves. My sister is working as a travel nurse for COVID units and this is a rather lucrative situation. If you knew how much these travel nurses were getting paid your mouth would drop. Let's just say the doctors at the hospital are getting jealous.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

nurse, hospital, Los Angeles, California, HSE

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Muhammad Whylly

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2021-01-21
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