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How the Las Vegas shooting turned one Utah nurse into an advocate for her profession

Enoch • When Debbie Bowerman went to see a movie recently with her husband and teenage daughter, they settled into their seats, and she scanned for the emergency exits.

It’s a habit the Enoch resident repeats in many confined public places, ever since the Route 91 Harvest Festival mass shooting in Las Vegas last fall.

Bowerman wasn’t wounded in the mass shooting. Actually, she wasn’t even at the festival. Instead, she witnessed the carnage firsthand as an emergency room nurse at nearby Sunrise Hospital, which took in about 200 patients in the hours after the shooting.