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Published on Thursday, October 09, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
Hollywood captured Susana Villar's imagination.
But stethoscopes and syringes, the beep of the telemetry monitor and the adrenaline of split-second decisions claimed her heart.
Villar, 33, traded the glamour of the business she knew since childhood - standing in for actors on studio sets and assisting with scripts for the TV show "King of Queens" - to enter nursing school in August. In 11 more months, she'll have a bachelor's degree and the title "registered nurse."
"The writers I worked with were great but I continued to think about nursing, to read anatomy books," said Villar, a Sherman Oaks resident and current nursing student at Mount St. Mary's College.
Villar and others - from dancers to stock traders, engineers to Pilates instructors - are changing the face of the profession itself, bringing layers of life experiences to a field that typically attracts younger women.
The change comes as accelerated nursing programs have increased
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