New UNCG nursing program puts veterans on fast track to degree

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By John Newsom Greensboro

When Angela Morrison looked into a physician’s assistant program in Florida several years ago, the university there wanted her to start from scratch.

Morrison’s community college degree didn’t count. Neither did her eight years in the Navy, where she was a corpsman assigned to a Navy hospital in Virginia and, later, at a medical clinic in Cherry Point.

Morrison started the program but realized she already knew most everything covered in those first classes. Rather hire vetsthan spend six years and tens of thousands of dollars to get that degree, Morrison left the program midway through the first semester and moved home to Virginia.

Several years later, when Morrison heard about a new nursing program at UNC-Greensboro, she was intrigued. Here, both her education and military experience would count.

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