Despite being in her junior year at another college and in an unrelated program, Mackenzie Perkins always knew she wanted to work in healthcare and that she specifically wanted to be a nurse.

“But it was a bit late in the game for me to change my major to nursing,” the Lexington, Virginia, native said, recalling that being so far into her previous degree program, it would have been like starting college all over again. Though Perkins decided to stick it out with her initial program, healthcare always seemed to be where she was destined to land.

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