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Worcester Nursing Students "Meet" Florence Nightingale

On February 4, 35 freshman nursing students from the Worcester campus took a trip back to the 1800s with Florence Nightingale, a.k.a. performer Kathy Duckett, RN, Director of Clinical Programs for Partners Home Care. Duckett has created an entire one-woman show based on the life of one of nursing’s most influential pioneers. For an hour and a half, the students were taken back to three periods including the Crimean War, Nightingale’s conversations with friends and relatives, and later years in her sick room. The performance was followed by a question and answer session in which students asked various questions about nursing in the 1800s, personal information about Florence Nightingale, and her contributions to the profession.

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