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A Lesson in Nursing: Comforting Care

The most meaningful times in our lives might last only a few minutes, but they are memorable.

Take this story, for example, from UVA nursing student Mary Lacy Grecco.  She was helping to care for patients at a local assisted living facility -- among them, a frail, 94-year-old woman from Fluvanna.
 

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