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Father, Daughter Claim Powerball Prize
Russ Ankeney and Jessica Traylor, a father and daughter from Randleman in Randolph County, NC, were excited to see their numbers come up in a recent Powerball drawing.Their ticket matched all five white balls but...
MSNBC Also states Jessica Traylor is a nurse. Interestingly enough, North Carolina has no one named Jessica Traylor licensed as a nurse. Either the news got it wrong or someone is full of it.
Who the @#$% cares what license, if any, she holds and what does it have to do with winning the lottery? She probably won't be working any more. If I ever win my employeer wouldn't even get me back for a final shift once I claimed the money.
BTW, I'm an LVN and I too identify myself simply as a nurse because I get tired of the asanine comments and questions.
And your point would be....?
As for the reporter having made a mistake - if someone ID's herself as a nurse for a story about winning the lottery, it's hardly cogent to the story to verify the woman's license. Reporters are a lot like nurses today - each is trying to do the work of at least three people whose jobs were cut in the recent past. Wasting time tracking down the woman's license (or lack thereof) for a story that doesn't involve the person's workplace would probably get the reporter in trouble.
This poor girl. I wonder if she knows we are talking about her.
Do you know who IS a nurse on TV and it sort of disgusts me? (....now that previous poster has brought it up....)
Kim Zolciak, of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta." She said in one episode that she was a "nurse" so I looked her up on the GA BON (I know, I know, lame, but I am totally addicted to those stupid shows.) Yes indeed. She is an inactive LPN. GROSS!!!!!
Who is to say that she did say she was a nurse. Reporters often cut corners and report things a bit different. If the reporter didn't know the difference, it's entirely possible that the told the reporter she was a CNA (if that is what she is) and the reporter used the term nurse.
OR
maybe she's a nurse who isn't working and hasn't renewed her license
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maybe she's a nurse who has a different name on her license. My license doesn't have the name I go by
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maybe she is a nurse somewhere else and hasn't yet gotten her state's license
OR, OR, OR
Geez.
JP2011
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I believe if you win a BIG jackpot you have to claim your prize in a ceremony where they invite the local news to attend. You can claim your prize if you form a "trust" therefore keeping your name private, but a body and a face has to claim the prize because millions of people play the lottery.