After being laid off from his position as a special education teacher in 2011, Michael Simonton decided to become a registered nurse. Where he wanted to work: Keck Medicine of USC.
Simonton said he and his coworkers chose Keck to work with the best nurses in their profession, “taking care of the sickest people.” He has worked for the university for nearly 12 years and is currently an intensive care unit nurse at Norris Cancer Center.
“There’s something that feels really, really good about being able to take care of those people and to do good things for them, to save, to help them get better and to see them walk out of the hospital,” Simonton said in a recent interview…