It’s Thanksgiving in Maine, and Andrew Ring is standing at a colleague’s door with a tray of homemade gooey butter cookies. As a former travel nurse, he found connecting with people during short-term contracts hard, so he learned it’s important to bring a little bit of home to whomever he meets.
Ring, 26, was born and raised in the suburbs of O’Fallon, Missouri. He graduated from school and began working as an operating room nurse in 2021.
“I saw nursing as such a great opportunity because they’re the ones that are your advocate for your health,” said Ring. “I just love the combination of humanism and science.”…