As nurses, endless job and career possibilities exist for us—in clinical practice, leadership, entrepreneurial pursuits, and even in non-healthcare industries. The unfortunate reality is that many of those opportunities won’t make us any happier or more fulfilled than our current jobs. The goal is to find the jobs that will, and you have more control over that than you might think.

The foot, a complex structure, has 26 bones and 33 joints, which all have to work properly to allow each person an average of 115,000 miles in their lifetime. Our feet carry us through this world, and their ability to acclimate to changes in terrain protect us from falls, the number one cause of injuries and death from injury in older Americans.