In January 2019, Ernest Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN, will become the first man to be president of the American Nurses Association. Though his election is historic, a nursing career wasn't originally on his radar. "In high school, I would have told you—without a doubt—I wanted to be an anesthesiologist and drive a 1968 green Cougar with a red interior. Don't ask me why," Grant laughs.Grant had the grades, but as the youngest of seven children to a single mother (Grant's father died when he was 5) in a rural North Carolina community, paying for medical school would have been extremely difficult. READ MORE