CONWAY — While the COVID-19 pandemic has caused many school graduations to be canceled, the nursing staff at Memorial Hospital made sure to honor their graduating student nurses with a traditional ceremony last Wednesday, welcoming these new nurses to their profession.
Wednesday also happened to be National Nurses Day.
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