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SALUTE TO NURSES CONT’D Reality Check
or Students, and Nursing Schools, COVID Has Brought Some Stern Tests
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By GEORGE O’BRIEN
eronica Machuca remembers the letter she received from Holyoke Community College just a few weeks before she was scheduled to start in the Nursing program in September 2020.
She didn’t have it in front of her when she spoke to HCN, but she didn’t need it; she couldn’t recall the exact wording but won’t ever forget the gist
of the missive.
“It made me think ... ‘if I can’t go through this program during the pandemic, then I don’t belong in this field; even in the worst times, you need to be available.”
“It said, ‘we are aware of the pandemic; it’s going to come with its challenges, and we are going to be remote. If this is something that’s going to be an issue for you, you might want to reconsider and basically withdraw,’” she recalled. “That’s essentially what it said.
“It was scary,” she went on, noting that after seven years of working in a refer- ence lab handling phle- botomy, she had decided she wanted something else,
Michael Konderwicz, a recent graduate of American International College, had many job options, but chose Mercy Medical Center.