A feature about the women of Optimal Level; their stories, successes, challenges, and opportunities. What is your background and how did you get into your business/career? Since I’m one of the “older” Optimal Level members, I have three careers in my background! My first career began as a registered nurse in 1966. I worked as an Operating Room Nurse, a Home Health Nurse and a School Nurse. Along the way I returned to school and graduated from Barat College in Lake Forest in 1977. With those experiences under my belt I took a position at a Condell Memorial Hospital in the Libertyville that blossomed into my second career as a hospital administrator. That initial position was Nurse Manager of a brand new/under   more »