Dozens of homes were levelled and other buildings - including a school and nursing home a few hundred metres from the plant - were badly damaged.
She persevered, attending a prestigious nursing school and going on to serve her community for more than 25 years.
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She also established a nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London.
The fear of stepping out took me along the safe, no-risk route through high school, nursing school and into a secure hospital job.
He also remains banned from certain professions such as teaching, nursing or driving a school bus remains in place until 2016.
The powerful explosion leveled a portion of the town, damaging numerous homes, a nursing home and the town's high school and middle school.
But its location -- next to an apartment complex, a nursing home and a middle school -- did not help matters.
My father became a pharmacy technician while studying for his US equivalency exam, and my mother worked as a grocery store cashier while attending nursing school.
"I'm a neurotic organizer, " says McMenemy, a freelance writer, blogger and nursing school student.
Cassie Foe was in the school's nursing lab when she heard a scream coming from the hallway.
The explosion damaged numerous homes, a nursing home and the town's high school and middle school, all of which were built within a few hundred feet of the plant.
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The explosion damaged numerous homes, a nursing home and the town's high school and middle school, all of which had been built within a few hundred feet of the plant.
At the San Diego State University School of Nursing, they're helping run a program for troops and veterans and their spouses.
It remains unclear if Oikos will be able to reconvene classes, as the school was already on a watch list of troubled schools and risked losing accreditation for its nursing program.
Saffron Brown, a second-year nursing student at the University of Northumbria, who went into training straight after school, agreed.
Lead researcher Dr Anne Lazenbatt, from the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen's University Belfast, said medical staff faced a tough challenge and needed support when making such hard decisions.
While she took all the prerequisites for nursing school in the U.S., she would have had to be on a two-year waiting list.
She says that about a third of the newest class studied business in school, and the rest majored in subjects including math, nursing and economics.
To solve that one, as well as to permit his students to take the national nursing exam after graduation and get a license to practice in the U.S., Ross' school must partner with community colleges that offer associate degrees in nursing, pushing students stateside for two of their five semesters.
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