After nearly 20 years of working in a variety of hospital emergency departments across the country, Paula is transferring within the Carolinas Medical System as a school nurse for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools. She is thankful that after working level one trauma centers from New York to California and Florida to Colorado, she has never been shot or stabbed. She hopes to be as fortunate as a school nurse. In the photo above, Paula scrubs off after a particularly messy day in the ER.