Carol Pearson Storer was raised in McGill Nevada, a 'company town' created by the Kennecott Copper Co. She came to the University of Oregon Medical School Department of Nursing Education for a nursing degree in the late 1940s, then joined the University Tuberculosis Hospital. Later, she went into pediatric nursing at Good Samaritan Hospital (1954), was an operating nurse at Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children in the early 1970s, and came back to UOMS in 1973, working as a manager of the Central Services Unit. She resumed work in pediatric nursing for a time in the University's new Neonatal Intermediate Care Unit, but in 1984, returned to Central Services for the remainder of her career. In this interview, Storer speaks of the challenges of her work and on the future of nursing.