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Miranda Lebel (left, with STCC Dean of Nursing Lisa Fugiel) says COVID helped her grow as an individual and understand that she could do “hard things.”
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Pandemic Has Tested Nursing Students on Every Level Imaginable
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By GEORGE O’BRIEN
iranda Lebel has a ton of memories from a nursing education changed by, but ultimately not defined by, the COVID-19 pandemic.
Many of them speak to the chal- lenges that had to be overcome, the manner in which students came together — even when they were forced to be apart — and how those same students found new and different ways to adjust, innovate, and persevere.
And to punctuate all that, Lebel, who recently graduated from Springfield Technical Community
College (STCC) and addressed
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way that none of us who haven’t been
on those front lines can contemplate or know, what the human
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