The hospital CEO turned nurse

Talk about a career change. An ex-CEO now works the graveyard nursing shift:

After all, how many people give up, at age 56, a six-figure salary and the prestige that comes with being the CEO of a hospital to go to nursing school? And then, upon graduation, at age 59, find themselves as a rookie nurse taking orders and instruction from other nurses, after almost two decades of overseeing an entire nursing department?

Well, maybe Milton resident George Geary wasn’t a typical hospital CEO. And he certainly isn’t a typical new nurse right out of school. He began his 33-year career at Milton Hospital as a respiratory therapist, then spent the last 18 of those years as the hospital’s CEO and president.

Now he’s working the graveyard shift — 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. — in the critical care unit of Dorchester’s Caritas Carney Hospital, at a time when many others in his position might be resting on their laurels.

(via Running a hospital)

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