As graduation approaches for seniors in the nursing program at Elon University, many students say their final hurdle before officially becoming a registered nurse is actually after they walk across the stage. The National Council Licensure Examination, better known as the NCLEX, is the standardized national exam required for nursing graduates to become licensed registered nurses in the United States.
Sam Wright kneels at the base of a tree, just where the woods thin out along the edge of the Oak Crest neighborhood. The line between property and forest is blurred here, somewhere along the border of Chatham and Orange County — and thick with rolling waves of wisteria.
