<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/newsroom/bc3-nursing-students-gain-once-in-a-lifetime-experience-serving-community-during-pandemic.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>03/08/2021 09:46:20 AM</pubDate><title>BC3 nursing students gain “once-in-a-lifetime” experience serving community during pandemic</title><subtitle/><description>(Butler, PA) Nearly a year after Butler County Community College donated personal protective equipment to healthcare workers at the outset of a global pandemic, its registered nursing students are gaining “once-in-a-lifetime” experience – experience uncommon among nursing schools, they add – as volunteers serving the community at a COVID-19 clinic inoculating up to 1,200 visitors a day.</description><author/><image-caption>Mackenzie Dean, of Dayton, a student in Butler County Community College’s Nursing, R.N., program, administers a COVID-19 vaccination to Patricia Nunamaker, 89, of Cabot, at Butler Memorial Hospital’s COVID-19 clinic Feb. 23. More than 80 BC3 registered nursing students from four counties are gaining once-in-a-lifetime experience by serving the community as volunteers at the clinic that inoculates up to 1,200 visitors a day.</image-caption><tags><tag>Year in Review 2021</tag></tags><image><img src="/_resources/images/newsroom/2021/serving-community-during-pandemic.jpg" alt="Mackenzie Dean, of Dayton, a student in Butler County Community College’s Nursing, R.N., program, administers a COVID-19 vaccination"/></image></item>